[Conference Home] [Initiative]

Day 1: Background on Work, Family, Health and Well-being Across Disciplines
12:30-1:05	Yvonne Maddox, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Welcome and Introduction of Initiative
	Kathleen Christensen, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Background on Workplace/Workforce Mismatch [Presentation]
	Virginia Cain, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1) 1:05-2:30	Changes in Work and Family During the 20th Century
Chair:	Lynne Casper, NICHD
Presenters:	Changing Work and Family Demographics [Presentation] Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland at College Park
Presenters:	The Transformation of Work and Employment Relations in the U.S. Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University
Discussants:	Running on Empty: Families, Time, and Workplace Injuries [Presentation] Leslie Boden, Boston University
Discussants:	How Well Do Parents with Young Children Combine Work and Family Life? [Presentation] Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
2:30-2:45	Break
2) 2:45-4:15	Time Constraints and Scheduling Complexities
Chair:	Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland at College Park
Presenters:	Changing Hours of Employment in American Families Jerry Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
Presenters:	Work Time, Family Time, and Children's Time: Implications for Child and Adolescent Relationships, Development, and Well-Being [Presentation] Ann Crouter and Susan McHale, Pennsylvania State University
Discussants:	Embracing Complexity: Work Schedules and Family Life in a 24/7 Economy Harriet Presser, University of Maryland at College Park
Discussants:	Timely and Timeless: Working Parents and Their Children [Presentation] Barbara Schneider, University of Chicago
4:15-4:30	Break
3) 4:30-6:00	Linking Changes in Work and Family to Health and Well-Being Outcomes
Chair:	Barbara DeVinney, OBSSR
Presenters:	Tradeoffs Among Work, Family, Health and Well-Being: A Social-Demographic Perspective [Presentation] Kristin Moore, Susan Jekielek, Zakia Redd, and Richard Wertheimer, Child Trends
	Parental Employment and Children's Health and Development: Comments on the Economics Literature Sanders Korenman and Robert Kaestner, Baruch College, City University of New York
	The Impact of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses on Families and Children [Presentation] Allard Dembe, University of Massachusetts Medical School
	A Psychological Perspective on the Consequences of Work/Family Mismatch [Presentation] Rena Repetti, University of California, Los Angeles
Day 2: Work, Family, Health and Well-being: Contexts and Subpopulation Diversity
4) 9:00-10:50	Work and Family Research: Disciplinary Perspectives
Chair:	Rosalind King, NICHD
Presenters:	Sociological Perspectives on Work and Family Jennifer Glass, University of Iowa
	An Economic Perspective on Work, Family, and Well-Being [Presentation] Arleen Leibowitz, University of California, Los Angeles
	Anthropology, Ethnography and the Thesis of a Workplace/Workforce Mismatch Charles Darrah, San Jose State University
	Gender Perspectives on Work and Personal Life [Presentation] Joyce Fletcher, Simmons School of Management
Discussant:	Commentary from a Public Policy Perspective [Presentation] Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
10:50-11:05	Break
5) 11:05-12:35	Community Context for Work-Family Relationships
Chair:	Kathy Salaita, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Presenters:	Fit and Mismatch: Measuring Parents’ Perceptions of Community Contexts [Presentation] Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College, Shelley MacDermid, and Rona Swartz, Purdue University
	Community--The Missing Link in Work-Family Research [Presentation] Rosalind Barnett, Brandeis University
	The Workplace-Community Interface: Building Cross-Sector Partnerships for Working Families [Presentation] Ann Bookman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant:	Shelley MacDermid, Purdue University
12:35-1:35	Lunch
6) 1:35-4:30	Diverse Populations: Unique Challenges
Chair:	Sherry Baron, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NIOSH/CDC)
Part I: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Nativity
Presenters:	Gender, Work, and Family in the United States: What Do We Know From Social Science Research? [Presentation] Pamela Smock, University of Michigan, and Mary Noonan, University of Iowa
	Work and Family Issues for Mature Women and Their Families [Presentation] Eliza Pavalko and Fang Gong, Indiana University
	The Walls of Jericho: Poverty, Work, and Mothering [Presentation] Linda Burton, Pennsylvania State University, and Laura Lein, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant:	Increasing Inequality and the Feminization of the Labor Force Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
2:50-3:05	Break
Part II: Low-Wage Jobs and Less-Skilled Workers
Presenters:	Work in the Working Class: Challenges Facing Workers and Their Families [Presentation] Maureen Perry-Jenkins, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Presenters:	Linking Workplace Practices to Child Care Requirements: Lower-Level Workers in Lower-Skilled Jobs Julia Henly and Susan Lambert, University of Chicago
Discussant:	The Child-Care Squeeze for Working-Class Families Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University
Day 3: Health and Well-Being Outcomes and Workplace Considerations
7) 9:00-10:30	Work Conditions and Health Outcomes
Chair:	Lawrence Fine, OBSSR
Presenters:	A Systematic Approach to the Assessment of the Psychosocial Work Environment and the Associations with Family Work Conflict [Presentation] Tage Kristensen, National Institute of Occupational Health (Denmark), Nicole Jansen, Maastricht University, and Lars Smith-Hansen, National Institute of Occupational Health (Denmark)
Presenters:	Labor Markets and Health: A Social Epidemiological Perspective [Presentation] Benjamin Amick, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston and Cameron Mustard, University of Toronto
Discussant:	Expanding Traditional Work and Health Models to Examine Comprehensively the Impact on the Family Stanislav Kasl, Yale University School of Medicine
10:30-10:45	Break
8) 10:45-12:15	How Do Work and Family Affect Health and Well-Being?
Chair:	Joseph Hurrell, NIOSH/CDC
Presenters:	How Do Family and Work Affect Health and Well-Being? Marriage, Divorce and Paid Employment Linda Waite and Ross Stolzenberg, University of Chicago
Presenters:	When Do We Really Know What We Think We Know? Determining Causality Janet Currie, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant:	Psychosocial Factors That Link Workplace/Workforce Mismatch and Health [Presentation] Diane Halpern, Claremont McKenna College
12:15-1:15	Lunch
9) 1:15-2:30	Workforce/Workplace Mismatch and Outcomes Across the Life Course
Chair:	Patricia Pastor, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Presenters:	The Life Course [Presentation] Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota
Presenters:	Match and Mismatch through a Developmental Lens: The Implications of Maternal Employment for Children of Different Ages [Presentation] Martha Zaslow, Sharon M. McGroder, Susan Jekielek, and Megan Gallagher, Child Trends
Discussants:	A Description of the Work and Family Experiences of Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation [Presentation] Leslie Hammer and Margaret Neal, Portland State University
2:30-2:45	Break
10) 2:45-4:15	Employers' Perceived Needs, Organizational Behavior, and Institutional Change
Chair:	Robert Lerman, The Urban Institute
Presenters:	Workplace Policies and Practices to Support Work and Families: Gaps in Implementation and Linkages to Individual and Organizational Effectiveness [Presentation] Ellen Ernst Kossek, Michigan State University
	Work-Family Culture and Climate [Presentation] Cynthia Thompson, Jeanine Andreassi, and David Prottas, Baruch College, City University of New York
	Work and Family Life: The Perspective of Employers Harry Holzer, Georgetown University
Discussant:	Filling the Gap Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11) 4:15-4:30	Discussion of Future Activities
Speakers:	Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland
Speakers:	Lynne Casper, NICHD

Additional Chapters

Global Transformations
Jody Heymann, Stephanie Simmons, and Alison Earle

Psychological Perspectives on the Work-Family Interface
Debra A. Major and Jeanette N. Cleveland

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals for their thoughtful contributions to the planning of this conference:

Duane Alexander, NICHD

Benjamin Amick III, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston*

Christine Bachrach, NICHD

Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rosalind Barnett, Brandeis University

Francine Blau, Cornell University

Virginia Cain, OBSSR

Allard Dembe, University of Massachusetts Medical School*

V. Jeffrey Evans, NICHD

Thomas Fricke, University of Michigan

James Grosch, NIOSH

Jody Heymann, Harvard University

Jerry Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania

Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ellen Ernst Kossek, Michigan State University

Susan Lambert, University of Chicago

Robert Lerman, American University / The Urban Institute*

Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington*

Shelley MacDermid, Purdue University

Leslie MacDonald, NIOSH

Marilyn Metzler, CDC

Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota

Patricia Pastor, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)*

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College

Rena Repetti, University of California Los Angeles

Kathy Salaita, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)*

Seth Sanders, University of Maryland at College Park

Barbara Schneider, University of Chicago

Cynthia Thompson, City University of New York*

Linda Waite, University of Chicago

Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University

David Wegman, University of Massachusetts Lowell*

We also thank the following individuals for their invaluable support in the preparation of this conference:

Frank Avenilla, American Institutes for Research

Barbara Hillinger, University of Maryland at College Park

Erica Linden, NICHD

Sara Raley, University of Maryland at College Park

Pat Stanley, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Janice Wahlmann, NICHD

* members of the initial planning group

Day 1: Background on Work, Family, Health and Well-being Across Disciplines

Day 2: Work, Family, Health and Well-being: Contexts and Subpopulation Diversity

Day 3: Health and Well-Being Outcomes and Workplace Considerations

Sponsors

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The University of Maryland Population Research Center

Acknowledgments