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Research and Working Papers
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Faculty Spotlight: Onnie Rogers
For IPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers, feeling like an exception sparked questions about identity and self-perception. These questions have informed her research, which focuses on how cultural norms, expectations, and stereotypes affect how youth see themselves, particularly in terms of schooling and education. MORE
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Policy Implications of the 2016 Election
"In many ways it was an extraordinary campaign and election," said IPR political scientist James Druckman in introducing IPR's 2016 post-election panel on November 14. "At the same time, the election was not as unusual as many people think." With presentations on bipartisanship, the Supreme Court, healthcare, and immigration, the four expert panelists dove deep into the policy implications of the 2016 election—while underscoring the future's unknowns. MORE
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The Party and Policy Legacies of President Obama
In The Washington Post, IPR political scientist Daniel Galvin draws on his book, Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Princeton University Press, 2010), to examine President Obama's party-building legacy. He argues that Obama worked hard to build a policy legacy but did not devote enough attention to building his party—leaving his policy accomplishments vulnerable as a result. MORE
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Scholars Seek to Understand Corruption
From bribing an official to issue a birth certificate to political graft, corruption in government affects societies across the globe. Given its ubiquity and many forms, can it be curbed, and if so, how? An interdisciplinary group of scholars, co-organized by IPR sociologist Monica Prasad and Northwestern University political scientist Jordan Gans-Morse, met to discuss a forthcoming report and share their research and insights. MORE
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Finnish Educators Call FUSE an 'Inspiration'
Schools in Finland are adopting the FUSE Studio program because it promotes "well-learning" and reflects the goals of the country's new core curriculum, Finnish educators said during a recent panel discussion at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy. Professor of learning sciences and IPR associate Reed Stevens directs FUSE. MORE
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IPR Working Papers
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Joseph Ferrie, Catherine Massey, and Jonathan Rothbaum
Studies of U.S. intergenerational mobility focus almost exclusively on the transmission of (dis)advantage from parents to children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal studies such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The researchers directly link family lines across data spanning 1910 to 2013 and find a substantial "grandparent effect" for cohorts born since 1920, as well as some evidence of a "great-grandparent effect." Although these might be due to measurement error, they conclude that estimates from only two generations of data understate persistence by about 20 percent.
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James Druckman, Thomas Leeper, and Rune Slothuus
Among numerous foundational contributions, the work of renowned political scientist Milton Lodge is notable for its artful adaptation of theories of psychological processing to political contexts. Lodge recognized the uniqueness of politics as a context for information processing, exploring situations which are defined, in part, by a) low information and thus situations where information acquisition occurs, b) contested informational claims, and c) over-time dynamics. This is true of his work on schemas, online processing, and motivated reasoning. The researchers focus on the last of these by studying applications of motivated thinking in three domains: competitive framing, partisan competition, and science opinion formation. They reveal how informative Lodge's work in these areas has been and elaborate his findings to highlight the conditionality of political motivated reasoning in each domain.
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Infographic: Children Living with Uninsured Family Members
 http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2016/infographic-percheski-children-health-insurance-family.html
Using data from over 65,000 respondents to the National Health Interview Survey, IPR sociologist Christine Percheski examines how health insurance coverage differs by family structure. She finds that children living with unmarried, cohabiting parents are more likely to have an uninsured family member than those living with married parents or a single mother. This is in part because health insurance eligibility rules are often based on "traditional" family structures.
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Panel to Enhance Online Survey Platform TESS
 http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2016/tess-amerispeak-survey.html
Since 2002, the National Science Foundation-funded project, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) has enabled researchers to conduct survey experiments with nationally representative samples, free of cost. Currently housed at IPR and co-led by IPR political scientist James Druckman, TESS is now working with a new online data collection platform, the AmeriSpeak® Panel from NORC at the University of Chicago.
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Faculty Awards & Honors
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IPR associates Bernard Black, professor of law and finance, and Carol Lee, professor of human development and social policy, were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 8.
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Faculty in the Media
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5 reasons schools should measure chronic absence
Citing a Hamilton Project report, IPR economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach says measuring and solving chronic absenteeism could be key to improving student success.
Why Republicans don't even try to win cities anymore
Looking at the growing rural-urban divide, political scientist Thomas Ogorzalek, an IPR associate, says Republicans can be competitive in cities without winning them.
Disadvantaged students outnumbered at top public boarding schools
IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin finds that coming from a disadvantaged background shapes students' identity and achievement.
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