Events and Conferences

2015 Conferences, Meetings, and Events

Mathematica staff are highlighted in this listing of conferences, meetings, and events for the year.

Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: The Evolution of Charter School Quality

Steve Rivkin from the University of Illinois-Chicago will be the guest speaker.

CHCE Forum: Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices: Higher Value or Higher Costs?

Forum participants disucssed the impact of the integration of physicians into hospitals and of how policymakers can use payment reforms and other tools to shift the focus of vertically integrated health care systems to high-value care.

CIRE Forum: Connecting the Dots: Using Linked Administrative Data to Improve Public Child Welfare Programs

This forum explored how administrative data can be used to improve public child welfare programs drawing on lessons learned from successful programs in Florida and Wisconsin.

Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: Assessing the Validity of Comparative Interrupted Time Series Designs and Practice: Lessons from Two Within-Study Comparisons

Kelly Hallberg from the University of Chicago presented "Assessing the Validity of Comparative Interrupted Time Series Designs and Practice: Lessons from Two Within-Study Comparisons."

CSDP Forum: Promoting Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policies: Recommendations to Help Workers Who Experience Illness or Injury

Three workgroups have developed actionable policy recommendations to promote continued employment for workers who develop a potentially career-ending medical condition. At this forum, leaders of each workgroup will share insights and address how we can reduce the number of workers who eventually lose their jobs due to a medical condition.

Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: Spillovers in the Family: The Educational Effects of Having a Disabled Sibling

David Figlio from Northwestern University will present "Spillovers in the Family: The Educational Effects of Having a Disabled Sibling."

CSDP Forum: State Trends in the Child SSI Program

This forum discussed findings from Mathematica's research examining the growth in child SSI and identifies factors driving the growth trends.

Disability Research Consortium (DRC) Annual Meeting

This two-day conference highlighted the DRC's latest research findings and their implications for the future of state and federal disability policies and programs. Representatives of federal agencies that administer programs for people with disabilities shared their insights.

Early Findings from the Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation

This webinar discussed early findings from the PACT evaluation, describing four Responsible Fatherhood programs and the low-income fathers they serve.

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting and Interest Group Meetings

At the annual research meeting of AcademyHealth, health experts from Mathematica will participate in conference presentations, panel discussions, focus groups, and peer-to-peer exchanges on diverse health topics. The conference runs from June 13 to 16 in Minneapolis, MN.

Federal Evaluations for Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Grantees

This webinar discussed two new federally led evaluations of a small number of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood/ReFORM grantees. Mathematica is leading the evaluation of the small set of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education grantees called "Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services (STREAMS)."

CIRE Forum: Improving Public Programs: Advanced Analytics for Better Decision Making

Mathematica’s Center for Improving Research Evidence hosted a research forum and webinar to discuss how advanced analytics can help policymakers, program administrators, and direct services staff enhance their programs by providing rapid, reliable, and relevant information.

Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: Impact of Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago

Lisa Barrow, Lauren Sartain, and Marisa de la Torre will present "Good Kids, Good Peers, or Good Schools? The Impact of Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago."

CSDP Forum: Improving Employment Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities

Mathematica evaluated the implementation and impact of six demonstration projects under the Youth Transition Demonstration. Panelists discussed three-year follow-up data on the six projects and their impact on participant employment, earnings, and other outcomes.

Survey Experts Present at AAPOR Conference

Mathematica's president and CEO Paul Decker will join our survey researchers in showcasing their work at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Hollywood, Florida, from May 13 to 17.

Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: Guest Speaker Eric Isenberg

Eric Isenberg from Mathematica will speak on "Impacts of the Teach For America Investing in Innovation Scale-Up."

Mathematica Early Childhood Experts at SRCD

Mathematica's early childhood experts are presenting at the Society for Research in Childhood Development in Philadelphia from March 19-21, 2015.

Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: Guest Speaker Julie Reed Kochanek

Julie Reed Kochanek from the American Institutes for Research talked about "Setting a Roadmap for Understanding Collaborative Research Partnership."

CHCE Forum: The SGR Fix: A Pathway to Fundamental Physician Payment Reform?

This forum looked at the proposed sustainable growth rate (SGR) replacement, including the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System and other payment models. Experts discussed these value-based models and describe opportunities and challenges in repealing the SGR formula.

WWC: Designing Quasi-Experiments: Meeting What Works Clearinghouse Standards Without Random Assignment

This webinar explained how to design and execute high quality quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) with the intent of meeting WWC standards with reservations. The presentation included guidance on key features to keep in mind while designing the study, information the WWC looks for in order to assess the study, pitfalls and strengths of studies reviewed by the WWC, and common misconceptions about different types of QEDs.

CSDP Forum: Early Findings from the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)

Speakers discussed background of the BOND demonstration, presented findings from the first two years process and impact analyses, and discussed policy and research implications.

Annual Conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy

Mathematica researchers will give presentations at the 40th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), February 26 to 28, in Washington, D.C.

CIRE Forum: Transforming Technical Assistance: Using Evidence to Enrich the Experience

This forum reviewed the three core components of high quality evidence-based technical assistance: use of an evidence-based framework to develop (1) the TA content, (2) the process of providing TA (based on adult learning principles), and (3) a way to measure the success of the policy or program change.

Call for Presenters: Chicago Education Research Presentation Series

CHERP sponsors a series of monthly presentations on preliminary research and analyses in education to encourage discussion and suggestions among the Chicago education policy research community. The series offers education researchers and students across the region an opportunity to learn about each other’s work, interact informally, and support the field of education research in Chicago.