Date/Time
Date(s) - May 21, 2024
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Strasser Legacy Room (SLR)
Categories
Conference Schedule
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: Eggers 220, Strasser Legacy Room, 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
Patricia Homan, Florida State University “Structural oppression and health across US states” Lawrence Stacey, Vanderbilt University “Anti-LGBTQ state policies and population health” Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson, Columbia University “Measuring state-level life course structural racism: lessons from 3 approaches” Fatima Touma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “State-level structural xenophobia and immigrant-native health disparities” Moderator: Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University |
| 10:00-10:30 | Keynote Presentation 1
Ellicott Matthay, New York University “Problems and solutions for co-occurring policies in research on the health effects of social policies” Moderator: Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Keynote Presentation 2
Beth Ann Griffin, RAND “Methodological considerations for estimating policy effects in the context of co-occurring policies” Moderator: Douglas A. Wolf, Syracuse University |
| 11:30-12:00
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Keynote Presentation 3
Alexander Tahk, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Policy indices in the State Policy & Politics Database” Moderator: Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:00 | Presentations from Conference Fellows – Group B
Emily Dore, Harvard University “State-level factors that shape the long-arm of childhood” Christopher Lowenstein, Stanford University “Labor market policies as upstream drivers of health: unpacking within-state heterogeneity” Megan Reynolds, University of Utah “Labor market protections and midlife health among working Americans” David Rothwell, Oregon State University “State policy and financial well-being” Moderator: Kelly Musick, Cornell University |
| 2:00-3:30 | Keynote Presentation 4
Hugo Jales, Syracuse University “Two-way fixed effects and difference-in-differences: problems and solutions” Moderator: Pinka Chatterji, University at Albany |
| 3:30-3:45 | Break |
| 3:45-4:45 | Presentations from Conference Fellows – Group C
Alina Schnake-Mahl, Drexel University “Court mandated redistricting and health disparities: a descriptive exploration of mortality by Congressional District” Rachel Donnelly, Vanderbilt University “Contextual determinants of mental health: states as social context in the stress process” Rebecca Anna Schut, University of Chicago “The impacts of state immigration policies on the health and well-being of U.S. workers” Emma Zang, Yale University “Trajectories of upward mobility contexts and later-life cognitive outcomes” Moderator: Iliya Gutin, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| 4:45-5:00 | Wrap Up |
| 5:00-7:00 | Reception |
Funding provided by the National Institute on Aging grant P30AG066583 (Center for Aging and Policy Research, a 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