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2024 Conference on U.S. State Policies, Population Health, and Aging
Hosted by the Center for Aging and Policy Studies and the Center for Policy Research
Date: May, 21, 2024 | Location: 220 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University
Registration Required. Click here to register.
| 8:15-8:45 | Continental Breakfast, Pick Up Name Badge & Conference Materials |
| 8:45-9:00 | Welcome from CAPS and CPR |
| 9:00-10:00 | Presentations from Conference Fellows – Group A
Moderator: XXXXXX Patricia Homan, Florida State University Lawrence Stacey, Vanderbilt University Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson, Columbia University Fatima Touma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 10:00-10:30 | Problems and solutions for co-occurring policies in research on the health effects of social policies
Speaker: Ellicott Matthay, New York University Moderator: Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Methodological considerations for estimating policy effects in the context of co-occurring policies
Speaker: Beth Ann Griffin, RAND Moderator: Douglas Wolf, Syracuse University |
| 11:30-12:00 | Policy indices in the State Policy & Politics Database
Speaker: Alexander Tahk, University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Jennifer Karas Montez |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:00 | Presentations from Conference Fellows – Group B
Moderator: Kelly Musick, Cornell University Emily Dore, Harvard University Christopher Lowenstein, Stanford University Megan Reynolds, University of Utah David Rothwell, Oregon State University |
| 2:00-3:30 | Two-Way Fixed Effects and Difference-in-Differences: Problems and Solutions
Speaker: Hugo Jales, Syracuse University Moderator: Pinka Chatterji, University at Albany |
| 3:30-3:45 | Break |
| 3:45-4:45 | Presentations from Conference Fellows – Group C
Moderator: Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University Alina Schnake-Mahl, Drexel University Rachel Donnelly, Vanderbilt University Rebecca Anna Schut, University of Chicago Emma Zang, Yale University |
| 4:45-5:00 | Wrap Up |
| 5:00-6:30 | Reception |
Funding provided by the National Institute on Aging grant P30 AG066583 (Center for Aging and Policy Research, an upstate New York consortium between Syracuse University, Cornell University, and University at Albany) and the Center for Policy Research in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University