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Since 2002, MPRC has sponsored, supported or facilitated 20 significant conferences and workshops. These events are listed below along with more information about the event and a link to the event's website (if available). Events are listed in chronological order with the most recent listed first.

Crime and Population Dynamics 2008 Summer Workshop

The fourth annual meeting of this group, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2-3 June, 2008, featured more than 50 researchers from disciplines including criminology, economics, sociology, and health. Kathy Edin, Kennedy School, Harvard, presented the invited lecture. : : MORE

International Association for Time Use Research: XXVIIII Conference

This event, held on October 17-19, 2007 at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington DC, drew hundreds of time-use scholars from around the world. : : MORE

Crime and Population Dynamics 2007 Summer Workshop

This was the third annual meeting of this group featuring more than 50 researchers from various disciplines, but mostly economics and criminology. : : MORE

Data Analysis in Qualitative Work: Software Options

The purpose of these workshops was to encourage informal conversation about the challenges in data analysis among researchers throughout University of Maryland who use ethnographic research techniques (e.g., participant-observation and in-depth interviewing). Each workshop offered an informal presentation of two different software packages and a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. These workshops were held October 31st and November 30th, 2006. : : MORE

Crime and Population Workshop

Formerly called the Annual Crime and Economics Summer Workshop, this event was held June 5-6, 2006 at the Aspen Wye River Institute in Queenstown, Maryland. It featured unique, cross-disciplinary work from more than 25 researchers, most of whom were economists or criminologists. : : MORE

Conference on Social Class: How Does It Work?

This event was held April 21-22, 2006 in New York City and was organized by MPRC faculty associate Annette Lareau, head of the Center's Qualitative Research Work Group. The two-day long conference featured research that will be published in a forthcoming book with the same title, edited by Lareau and Dalton Conely. : : MORE

American Time Use Survey Early Results Conference

This event, held on December 8-9,2005 at the Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center, focused on recently released BLS data from the new American Time Use Survey (ATUS). Approximately 14 papers and nearly 30 posters were presented at the conference, at which more than 125 registered participants attended. Papers included questions related to child care, care of elderly adults, household bargaining, work schedules, travel patterns and sleep effects on health. : : MORE

NICHD Working Group Meeting: Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation

This meeting of the NICHD Working Group is one in a series of meetings and was held at MPRC on October 13-14, 2005. This group aims to review existing knowledge on family and fertility change and on variation in family attitudes and behavior between women and men and among members of different race/ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural groups. : : MORE

National Fatherhood Forum

The goal for the June 16th and 17th 2005 National Fatherhood Forum was to build on the first conference (held at New York University in 1999), at which research strategies and theoretical frameworks for the study of low-income fathers was discussed. The 2005 Forum was designed to take stock of what had been learned about fathers since the first conference and to highlight key themes for future research. : : MORE

Crime and Population Summer Workshop

Formerly called the Annual Crime and Economics Summer Workshop, this event was held June 6-8, 2005 at the Belmont Conference Center in Elkridge, Maryland. It was the first of what has become an annual event, sponsored by MPRC and organized by the Center's Crime and Population Work Group.
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NICHD Working Group Meeting: Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation

This meeting of the NICHD Working Group is one in a series of meetings and was held at MPRC on October 18-19, 2004. This group aims to review existing knowledge on family and fertility change and on variation in family attitudes and behavior between women and men and among members of different race/ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural groups. : : MORE

NICHD Working Group Meeting: Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation

This meeting of the NICHD Working Group is one in a series of meetings and was held at MPRC on June 3-4, 2004. This group aims to review existing knowledge on family and fertility change and on variation in family attitudes and behavior between women and men and among members of different race/ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural groups. : : MORE

Third Annual Johns Hopkins ?Maryland Joint Workshop in Applied Micro and Microeconometrics

This event was held on March 12, 2004 and was a joint collaboration of both MPRC and Johns Hopkins University. Like previous years, this day-long event featured current research in the population sciences being conducted by faculty at both universities. Many MPRC faculty associates either presented or attended this event.

Measurement Issues in Family Demography

This event was co-sponsored by MPRC and was held at NIH on November 13-14, 2003. The purpose of this conference was to describe why and how the measurement of family related demographic phenomena matters and to discuss and recommend how best to improve the current data collection practices to more accurately depict family change and behavior. : : MORE

Improving Social Insurance Programs

This event was held as a follow up to the previous conference and was held on September 13-14,2003, again on the University of Maryland campus. It built on the work and research on Social Insurance Policymaking discussed at the previous days' conference. : : MORE

Workshop on the Economics of Social Insurance Policymaking: Theories, Models, and Methods

This workshop was held on the University of Maryland campus on September 11-12, 2003. It was designed for government agency and graduate student policymakers and analysts, and others interested in surveying the current trends in economic analysis of social insurance, with specific focus on social insurance policy making. : : MORE

Workplace/Workforce Mismatch: Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being

This conference held June 16-18, 2003 was the first in a series of activities to identify the best workplace policies and practices to improve health and well-being. The conference reviewed the “state of the science? pertaining to how different dimensions of work and family act independently and interact to affect the health and well-being of workers, families, children, communities, and workplaces from numerous disciplinary perspectives. : : MORE

Third Annual Meeting for the Special Program on the Social Dimensions of Inequality

MPRC was proud to host this event held in Washington, DC on May 29-30, 2003. This event was part of a larger initiative funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. This initiative created university working groups to address the problem of social inequality in a variety of dimensions from the impact on children, to the influences on health and mortality and much more. Research presented at this conference is still available online. : : MORE

Second Annual University of Maryland/Johns Hopkins University Applied Micro Research Day

Held on April 28, 2002, this event was co-sponsored by MPRC and Johns Hopkins University. It featured current research in the population sciences being conducted by faculty at both universities. Many MPRC faculty associates either presented or attended this day-long event.

Women and Children After Welfare Reform: A Forum

This one day event was held on October 4, 2002 and was sponsored (and hosted by) MPRC. Its goal was to examine the experiences of low-income rural and urban women in Maryland and other states as they transition into work after welfare reform. Experts from the University of Maryland as well as other area universities and policy institutes presented research on women’s employment, their needs and benefits as wage-earners, and the overall effects of welfare reform on their families. : : MORE

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