CPIP Seminar Series
CPIP invites external speakers to give talks on the first Tuesday of each month during the school year. CPIP affiliates can send suggestions for speakers to the seminar planning committee.
Seminar Schedule
All seminars during the 2022-2023 academic year will be held from 12:30-1:30 PM in Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway 1517.
June 6, 2023
Reshaping gender attitudes in India through schools: An 8-year follow-up study
Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
We evaluate the long-run effects of an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years during secondary school, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women’s and girls’ opportunities. In prior work, we found that the program made attitudes more supportive of gender equality. In this follow-up paper, we estimate longer-run effects, when the study participants are, on average, 20 years old. We also surveyed younger siblings and parents to assess spillover effects of the program. First, we find no effects of the intervention on female participants' educational attainment, employment, or age of marriage. Second, the program has a persistent effect on gender attitudes only among male participants, though female participants report having more personal autonomy. Third, we find sizeable spillovers to younger siblings; siblings of those in the treatment group have more progressive attitudes. Finally, we also find evidence of upward spillovers from boys who participated in the program to their fathers, who express more progressive gender attitudes.
Seema Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on environmental conservation, gender equality, health, and other microeconomic topics in developing countries. She serves on the board of directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and leads J-PAL's gender sector. She is also co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. In addition, she serves on CARE's board of directors.
Past Seminars
CPIP Seminar Schedule, 2022-2023
October 4, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30PM
CPIP Seminar: Welcome back lunch
Social Sciences Plaza Lower
November 1, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30PM
Economic Inequality and Social and Demographic Outcomes in China
Yu Xie
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and Director of Center on
Contemporary China, Princeton University
Visiting Chair Professor of Center for Social Research, Peking University
Co-sponsored with the Long US-China Institute.
December 6, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30PM
Structural Racism: The Rules and Relations of Inequity
Gilbert Gee, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Co-sponsored with UCI's Program in Public Health
January 10, 2023
Excess Mortality in U.S. Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Naomi F. Sugie, Associate Professor, UCI's Department of Criminology, Law & Society
Kristin Turney, Dean's Professor, UCI's Department of Sociology
Keramet Reiter, Vice Chair & Professor, UCI's Department of Criminology, Law & Society
February 7, 2023
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002-2020: Evidence
from California UI records
Till von Wachter, Professor of Economics, Faculty Director of the California Policy
Lab’s UCLA site, Director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center, and Associate
Dean for Research for the Social Science Division, UCLA
March 7, 2023
The Effect of COVID Infection on Infant Health: Trends over the Course of the Pandemic
Florencia Torche, Dunlevie Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,
Stanford University
April 4, 2023
Adolescent Gender Beliefs in India: Does Mothers’ Empowerment Matter?
Feinian Chen, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Racial Disparities in Urban Mobility and Real-time Social Context
Erin York Cornwell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
CPIP Seminar Schedule, 2021-2022
October 5, 2021, 12:30 - 1:30PM
Generating insights into the origins of health inequalities at the interface of the
biological and social sciences
Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow of
the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
November 2, 2021, 12:30 - 1:30PM
Early life experiences and health across the life course: risks and opportunities
Natalie Slopen, Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of
Public Health
December 7, 2021
COVID, Racism and Critical Race Theory
Chandra Ford, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA: Founding Director,
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
February 1, 2022
Immigration policy and Latinx family wellbeing: Immigration socialization and children's
legal awareness
Cecilia Ayón, Professor, Public Policy, University of California Riverside
March 1, 2022
Couple Relationship Functioning and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence
from the National Couples’ Health and Time Study
Claire Kamp-Dush, Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota
April 5, 2022
Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating In a Recession
Hannes Schwandt, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University
May 3, 2022
How educational inequities in the U.S. South pre and post Brown shape dementia risk
for Black and White older adults
Katrina Walsemann, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Marylan
June 7, 2022
Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability, Worker Wellbeing, and What to Do About
it
Daniel Schneider, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
CPIP Seminar Schedule, 2020-21
October 6, 2020
Diversions: How the Underrepresentation of Research on Advantaged Groups Leaves Explanations
for Health Inequalities Incomplete
Bruce G. Link, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University
of California, Riverside
November 3, 2020
Antigenic Imprinting and Age-Specific Susceptibility to Influenza ...and Maybe to
Covid-19?
Alain Gagnon, Professor, Department of Demography, University of Montreal
February 2, 2021
The Clean Air Acts and Racial Inequality in Exposure to PM2.5: New Evidence from Satellite
Data
Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Policy Affairs Co-Director,
Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University
March 2, 2021
Mothers, Children, and Early Child Care and Education in the U.S
Robert Crosnoe, Rapoport Centennial Professor of Sociology, UT Austin
April 6, 2021
"Duck tape your underpants:" Reflections on the Covid Pandemic after Sixteen Months
Andrew Noymer, Associate Professor, Program in Public Health, University of California,
Irvine
May 4, 2021
What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of
School Output
Kirabo Jackson, Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern
University
June 1, 2021 (Joint with CDASA)
Carl Schmertmann, William J. Serow Professor of Economics, Florida State University