CPI Events
2009
Child Policy Initiative Brown Bag Series
December 2 - Speaker: Rachana Bhatt, Ph.D.
(12-1:30 p.m.)
Room #632, Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW
Rachana Bhatt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University will present "The Impact of School Lunch Length on Children's Health."
Please bring your lunch and join us for an interesting presentation and discussion.
Previous speakers
October 19 - Speaker: Naima T. Wong
(12-1:30 p.m.)
Room #632, Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW
Research Associate for the Georgia Health Policy Center, Naima Wong presented "A Typology of Youth Participation and Empowerment for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion."
September 9 - Speaker: Mary Beth Walker
(12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
Room #632 - Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta
Professor of Economics and Chair, Economics Department Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Dr. Walker will present a paper titled: "A Decomposition of the Black-White Differential in Preterm Birth."
April 30 - Speaker: Joel Rosch and Jenni Owen
(11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.)
Room #632 - Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta
The Child Policy Initiative of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies is pleased to announce an interactive discussion about our efforts to start a Child Policy Center with senior policy analysts from the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy.
February 19 - Speaker: Henry M. Levin
(3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.)
Room #750 - Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta
Henry M. Levin from Columbia University Teachers College presented "Does Investing in the Children of the Poor have an Economic Payoff to Society?"
January 21 - Speaker: Daniel Crimmins, Ph. D. and Stacey Ramirez
(12:15 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.)
Room #210 - Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta
Daniel Crimmins, Ph. D. and Stacey Ramirez, both from the Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University, presented "Translating Research into Sustainable Community practice."
2008
December 11 - Speaker: Robert Kaestner
(10:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.)
Room #749 - Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta
Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Kaestner presented "Adolescent cognitive and Non-cognitive Correlates of Adult Health and Health Behaviors."
October 22 - Speaker: Sylvia Caley
(12:15 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.)
Room #632 - Andrew Young School Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta
Assistant Clinical Professor and Co- Associate Director of the Health Law Partnership in Georgia State's School of Law. Caley will present "Health Law Partnership: Community Collaboration in Action."
September 24 - Speaker: Jim Marton
Associate Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State. Marton presented "SCHIP Premiums, Enrollment, and Expenditures: A Two State, Competing Hazards Analysis."
May 1 - Speaker: Mary Beth Walker
Associate Professor of Economics in Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented a working paper entitled "Measuring the Impact of Competition among Georgia Pre-Schools."
March 12 - Speaker: James P. Ziliak
Part of the Visiting Scholars Program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Ziliak is a labor economist, the director of the UK Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR), and holds the Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics at Kentucky.
Feb. 20 - Speaker: Cynthia Searcy
Assistant Professor of Public Administration at GSU, presented her research on childhood obesity (specifically adolescents aged 10-18).
Jan. 30 - Speaker: Mary Ann Romski
Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Georgia State’s Center for Research into Atypical Development and Learning (CRADL).
2007
Child Policy Roundtable - Issues for 2008
Child Policy Initiative Brown Bag Series
Nov. 7 - Speaker: Chris Henrich
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, presented on Head Start and parent involvement.
Oct. 24 - Speaker: Paul Ferraro
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented "The Today and Tomorrow of Kids: Time Preferences and Student Performance.”
Oct. 10 - Speaker: James Marton
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, presented on the financing of state children's health insurance program (SCHIP).
Sept. 27 - Speaker: Christine Roch
Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy, presented her paper “Representative Bureaucracy & Policy Tools: Ethnicity, Student Discipline, and Representation in Public Schools.”
April 24 - Speaker: Inas Rashad
Assistant Professor n the Andrew Young School of Public Policy, presented on childhood obesity.
April 12 - Speaker: Shif Gurmu
Associate Professor of Economics, presented "Does Residential Location Matter to the Employment of TANF Recipients? Evidence from a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model with Unobserved Effects."
March 28 - Speaker: Dana Rickman
Senior Research Associate in the Office of Domestic Programs, presented her work on peer effects in early childhood education.
March 15
March 1 - Speaker: Patricia Ketsche
Associate Professor in the Insttute of Health Administration in the Robinson College of Business, presented an overview on SCHIP Research Projects from 2004-2007.
Feb. 16 - Speaker: Djesika Amendah
Ph.D. candidate in the AndrewYoung School Shol of Policy Studies, presented her dissertation research: Labor Market Outcomes and Welfare Participation of Teen Mothers: Evidence from Georgia.
Jan. 31