Crime, Violence and Punishment Working Group
Policy efforts to address crime and violence often impact the most vulnerable members of society. Moreover, policies that address crime and violence are both drivers of inequality and have the potential to ameliorate inequalities that result from experiencing crime and violence. This working group brings together scholars from across the university who are researching topics related to crime, violence, and punishment. The working group focuses on policy-relevant questions and solutions related to policing, courts, the prison system, and rehabilitation, as well as the root causes of crime and violence in society. Within this thematic focus, we welcome participation from faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, methodological perspectives, and geographic regions of the world. Working group activities include workshopping papers, providing professionalization opportunities (e.g., practice job talks, conference presentations), and collaborating on grant proposals. This workshop is organized by Gabriela Kirk-Werner (sociology), Katie Quinn (sociology) and Jessie Trudeau (political science). For more information, please contact Gabriela Kirk-Werner.
Education and Social Policy Workshop
Since the fall of 2017, the Education and Social Policy Workshop has convened nearly every week and includes graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and research associates working on research topics related to education policy and social policy, broadly defined. Participation in this interdisciplinary working group has grown to approximately 12-20 regular attendees, including graduate students in public administration, economics, social science and sociology, faculty members in the public administration and international affairs, economics and sociology departments, and Center for Policy Research postdoctoral fellows and research associates. Participants are encouraged to share their research and receive feedback via research seminar-style presentations, practice job-talks, practice for conferences and less formal presentations of works-in-progress. For more information, please contact Michah Rothbart or Emily Wiemers.
Health Economics and Policy Working Group
The Health Economics and Policy Working group brings together faculty members and graduate students who are interested in studying health economics, with particular emphasis on health behaviors and mental health and the extent to which these respond to public policy. The objectives of working group meetings are to offer constructive feedback and support to working group members in different stages of project completion. Working group activities include workshopping project ideas, practice for conference presentations and job talks, and informal presentations of work-in progress. For more information, please contact Monica Deza.
Labor and Public Economics Group
The Labor and Public Economics Working Group brings together faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students who share a common interest in exploring and studying research in labor and public economics. All who are interested are invited to participate. The overarching objective of these weekly meetings is to offer constructive feedback and support to individuals in diverse stages of their respective projects within the realm of labor economics. This includes providing insights and suggestions to individuals who are in the early stages of developing preliminary ideas, as well as offering guidance and critique to those who have progressed to the stage of refining and polishing their working papers. Meetings will be held from 11:00am-12:00pm on Mondays in the CPR conference room. For more information, please contact Maria Zhu.
Policy, Place, and Population Health (P3H) Lab
The P3H Lab is a hub of interdisciplinary research and training on how places and their policies shape population health. A central focus of lab members is investigating how U.S. state and local environments affect people’s health and life expectancy. The lab is mainly geared toward graduate students, but postdoctoral scholars and faculty also participate. Training is concentrated around three areas: population health research, statistical and demographic methods, and communicating research to scientists, policymakers and the public. The P3H Lab is a collaborative initiative between the Aging Studies Institute, Center for Policy Research and Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health. The lab is co-directed by Jennifer Karas Montez and Shannon Monnat. Learn more about the Policy, Place and Population Health Lab.
Public Finance Working Group
The Public Finance Working Group brings together scholars who conduct cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research in the area of public finance, with the goal of advancing basic research and contributing to policy debates and disseminating research findings to policymakers and the public. Working group activities include presentations of completed and semi-finished papers and brainstorming and providing feedback on new research idea. Please contact Yilin Hou for questions or any other inquiry.
Center for Policy Design and Governance Salon
During the academic year, the Center for Policy Design and Governance hosts a weekly seminar called the Salon. The Salon is a space where faculty and students have conversations about their work, research challenges, navigating university life and more. Each week, attendees can bring a matter before the group, or simply offer feedback on other presentations. Formal presentations, though not prohibited, are also not required. Learn more about the Center for Policy Design and Governance Salon.