Spring 2023 Speaker Calendar

January 26: Cayte Anderson, Director of Research, UW-Stout, presents The Utilization of ABLE Accounts and Other Tax-advantaged Savings Accounts: A Scoping Review

February 2: Brielle Bryan, Assistant Professor, Rice University, presents Implications of Child Incarceration for Women’s Wealth and Labor Market Attachment

February 9: Kate Pennington, Research Economist, US Census Bureau in the Center for Economic Studies, presents The Impacts of Racial Differences in Economic Challenges on Housing, Wealth, and Economic Security Among OASI Beneficiaries

February 16: Harold Pollack, Michael Levere, Guglielmo Briscese, University of Chicago, present Improving financial security for people with disabilities through ABLE accounts

February 23: Motohiro Yogo and Natalie Cox, Princeton University, present Financial Inclusion Across the United States

March 2: Molly Costanzo and Lisa Klein Vogel, Researchers at IRP, University of Wisconsin-Madison, present Parents of Children with Disabilities in Retirement: Economic Well-Being and Benefit Adequacy

March 9: Samara Scheckler, Research Associate, Harvard University, presents Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness: The Role of Frontline Workers to Promote Social Security Benefits Uptake and Housing Security for Adults 50 and Older Living in the Boston Area

March 23: Stephanie Moulton, Faculty Director of Research, Ohio State University, presents How Does the Death of a Partner During the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Economic Security of the Surviving Older Adult? Evidence From Credit Panel and Labor Force Participation Data

April 6: Nicole Hair, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, presents COVID-19 Health Disparities and the Economic Security of Families with Children

April 13: Dan Sacks or Anita Mukherjee, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin- Madison, present Consumption smoothing effects of Medicaid expansions

April 20: Jevay Grooms Assistant Professor, Howard University, and Madelaine L’Esperance, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, presents Social Security Administration’s Growing Interest in the Child Tax Credit and Other Child Driven Income Support Programs

April 27: John Nunley, Professor, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, Alan Seals, Professor, Auburn University, and Christopher Cruz, Professor, Grand Valley State University, present The Effects of Automation Technologies on SSDI Applications and Awards

May 4: Katie Jajtner, Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin- Madison, presents Effect of Public Policies on Work Disability: A Life course Perspective

May 11: Yang Wang Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Muzhe Yang, Professor Lehigh Business, presents Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Sex/Gender in SS(D)I Applications and Awards