INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

IPR@50 is a year-long celebration that will involve public lectures by IPR faculty, former PhD students, and others that will culminate in a two-day conference on June 6–7, 2019. IPR’s 50th anniversary offers a unique moment to take stock of what we know about key research areas, to look at how IPR research has contributed to that knowledge base, and to chart a course for studying it in the years to come. 

Conference PDF available.

Thursday, June 6

Welcome to IPR@50 and

Neighborhood Inequality: What Does the Research Tell Us?  |  1:00–2:30 p.m.  |  Hardin Hall

• Jonathan Guryan, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
• Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
• Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Associate Vice President for Research, and IPR Fellow
• Odette Yousef, Reporter, WBEZ (Moderator)

Causes and Consequences of Government Spending  |  2:45–4:00 p.m.  |  Hardin Hall

• Kirabo Jackson, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
• Matthew Notowidigdo, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
• Monica Prasad, Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow
• Sarah Karp, Reporter, WBEZ (Moderator)

"Evictions in America" - IPR@50 Distinguished Public Policy Lecture  |  4:30–5:45 p.m.
McCormick Foundation Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive

• Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown, 2016 

Friday, June 7

Reconvene IPR@50 and

Community Partnerships Produce Better Services and Research  |  9:00–10:15 a.m.  |  Hardin Hall

• Lori Beaman, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
• Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Frances Willard Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Vice Provost for Academics, and IPR Fellow
• David Figlio, Orrington Lunt Professor, Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, and IPR Fellow
• Penny Bender Sebring, Co-Founder and Senior Research Associate, University of Chicago Consortium 
  on School Research
• Paul Goren, Superintendent, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 (Moderator)

Breakthroughs in Policy Measurement  |  10:30–11:45 a.m.  |  Hardin Hall

• Emma Adam, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
• Bruce Spencer, Professor of Statistics and IPR Fellow
• Burton Weisbrod, Cardiss Collins Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
• Sera Young, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow
• Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, IPR Director and Margaret Walker Alexander Professor (Moderator)

From Cells to Society: How Experience Becomes Biology  |  12:45–2:00 p.m.  |  Hardin Hall

• Edith Chen, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Professor of Psychology, and IPR Fellow
• Christopher Kuzawa, Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow
• Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology and IPR Fellow
• Greg Miller, Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology and IPR Fellow (Moderator)

American Democracy and Its Discontents: What Ails Our Politics and What to Do About It  
2:15-3:30 p.m. |  Hardin Hall

• James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, and IPR Associate Director and Fellow
• Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
• Rachel Davis Mersey, Associate Professor of Journalism and IPR Fellow
• Jennifer Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University
• Peter Slevin, Associate Professor of Journalism, Medill (Moderator)

Closing Remarks and IPR Founders' Reception  |  3:30 p.m.  |  Hardin Hall

• IPR@50 First Decade
• IPR@50 Second Decade
• IPR@50 Third Decade
• IPR@50 Fourth Decade

• First Decade Timeline
• Second Decade Timeline
• Third Decade Timeline
• Fourth Decade Timeline