SESP Faculty

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Faculty Profile

Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is the Frances Willard Professor Emerita of Human Development and Social Policy at the School of Education and Social Policy as well as a Faculty Fellow Emerita at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University.

She is an expert on the interface between research and social policy for children and families, and she is the first developmental psychologist to be tenured in a public policy school in the United States. She was a Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She also was the founding director for seven years of Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at IPR.

From 2013-2020, Chase-Lansdale was associate provost for faculty and then vice provost for academics at Northwestern. In 2020, the Provost established the P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Undergraduate Summer Research Grant in Social Policy for Children and Families, awarded annually to a student in honor of Chase-Lansdale’s service to the university.

Chase-Lansdale specializes in multidisciplinary research on social issues and how they affect families and the development of children, youth, and parents. Much of her work addresses family and program strengths that lead to positive social and educational outcomes for families facing economic hardship. Specific topics include two-generation education interventions for parents and children, early childhood education, college promise programs, workforce training, family well-being, parent-child relationships, mothers’ employment, and immigration.

Chase-Lansdale co-directs the Northwestern Two-Generation Research Initiative (NU2Gen). This research program addresses the influence of two-generation education interventions on the psychological health, educational attainment, economic well-being, and healthy functioning of families, children, youth, and adults.

Chase-Lansdale is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She is the recipient of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Social Policy Award as well as the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children. In addition, Chase-Lansdale was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Child Development to mentor scholars of color at all levels.

Chase-Lansdale has recently completed her 6-year term as an elected member of the Harvard University Board, also serving as vice chair. She is a member of the inaugural cohort (2012) of the Aspen Institute’s Ascend Leadership Fellowship, designed to bring innovative leaders together to promote a two-generation approach in policy, practice, and research. She served on the board of the Foundation for Child Development for over 25 years, and she chaired the panel from 2002-2011. She also served on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program and chaired the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the NIH Study Section on Social Sciences and Population Studies.

Chase-Lansdale received her bachelor’s from Harvard University in 1974, her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1981, and she completed the Advanced Management Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 2016.

Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; health disparities; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families.

• 2016 – Elected, Harvard Board of Overseers
• 2013 – National Academy of Education
• 2013 – National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program
• 2012 – Ascend Fellow, Aspen Institute.
• 2011 – Society for Research in Child Development Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children
• 2009 – Chair, Visiting Committee, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
• 2007 – Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
• 2005 – Elected Fellow of Division 7, Developmental Psychology, of the American Psychological Association
• 2004 – Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• 2004 – Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence, Northwestern University
• 2004 – Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Award for Best Journal Article

Levy, D. J., Heissel, J., Richeson, J.A. & Adam, E. K. (Working Paper/In Press/Under Review). Psychological and Biological Responses to Race-Based Social Stress as Pathways to Disparities in Educational Outcomes. American Psychologist. 

Heissel, J., P. Sharkey, G. Torrats-Espinosa, K. Grant, and E. Adam. (2018). Violence and vigilance: The acute effects of community violent crime on sleep and cortisol. Child Development . Child Development: 89(4): e323-e331. 

Gilbert, K., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Craske, M. G., Adam, E. K. (2017). Emotion Regulation Regulates More Than Emotion: Associations of Momentary Emotion Regulation With Diurnal Cortisol in Current and Past Depression and Anxiety. Clinical Psychological Science: 37-51. 
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Tavernier, R., Adam, E. K. (2017). Text message intervention improves objective sleep hours among adolescents: the moderating role of race-ethnicity. Sleep Health 3: 62-67. 
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Adam, E. K., Quinn, M. E., Tavernier. R., McQuillan, M. T., Dahlke, K. A., Gilbert, K. E. (2017). Diurnal cortisol slopes and mental and physical health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology: 25-41. 

Miller, G. E., Culhane, J., Grobman, W., Simhan, H., Williamson, D. E., Adam, E. K., Buss, C., Entringer, S., Kim, K., Garcia-Espana, J. F., Keenan-Delvin, L., McDade, T. W., Wadhwa, P. D., Borders, A. (2017). Mothers’ childhood hardship forecasts adverse pregnancy outcomes: Role of inflammatory, lifestyle, and psychosocial pathways.Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: 11-19. 
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Heissel, J., D. Levy, and E. Adam (2017). Stress, sleep, and performance on standardized tests: Understudied pathways to the achievement gap. . AERA Open: 3(3): 1–17.. 

Adam, E., M. Quinn, R. Tavernier, M. McQuillan, K. Dahlke, and K. Gilber (2017). Diurnal cortisol slopes and mental and physical health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology: 83:25–41. 

Tavernier, R., Choo, S. B., Grant, K., & Adam, E. K. (2016). Daily affective experiences predict objective sleep outcomes among adolescents. Journal of Sleep Research, 25: 62-69. 
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Stalder, T., Kirschbaum, C., Kudielka, B. M., Adam, E. K., Pruessner, J. C., Wust, S., Dockray, S., Smyth, N., Evans, P., Hellhammer, D. H., Miller, R., Wetherell, M. A., Lupien, S. J., Clow, A. (2016). Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63: 414-432. 
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Ehrlich, K. B., Miller, G. E., Rohleder, N., Adam, E. K. (2016). Trajectories of relationship stress and inflammatory processes in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 28: 127-138. doi: 10.1017/S0954579415000334. 
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Levy, D. J., Heissel, J. A., Richeson, J. A., Adam, E. K. (2016). Psychological and biological responses to race-based social stress as pathways to disparities in educational outcomes. American Psychologist, 71: 455-473. 
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Guardino, C. M., Schetter, C. D., Saxbe, D. E., Adam, E. K., Ramey, S. L., Shalowitz, M. U. (2016). Diurnal Salivary Cortisol Patterns Prior to Pregnancy Predict Infant Birth Weight. Health Psychology Vol. 35 No. 6: 625-633. 
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Garfield, C. F., Duncan, G., Gutina, A., Rutsohn, J., McDade, T. W., Adam, E. K., Coley, R. L., Chase-Lansdale, L. (2016). Longitudinal study of body mass index in young males and the transition to fatherhood. American Journal of Mens Health Vol. 10(6) : N158-N167. 
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Hoyt, L. T., Zeiders, K. H., Erhlich, K. B., Adam, E. K. (2016). Positive Upshots of Cortisol in Everyday Life. Emotion Vol. 16 No. 4: 431-435. 
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Straub, H., Simon, C., Plunkett, B. A., Endres, L., Adam, E. K., Mckinney, C., Hobel, C. J., Thorp, J. M., Raju, T., Shalowitz, M. (2016). Evidence for a Complex Relationship Among Weight Retention, Cortisol and Breastfeeding in Postpartum Women. Matern Child Health 20: 1375-1383. 
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Simon, C. D., Adam, E. K., Holl, J. L., Wolfe, K. A., Grobman, W. A., Borders, A. E. B. (2016). Prenatal Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response in African-American and Caucasian Women in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy.Matern Child Health J 20: 2142-2149. 
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Ross, K. H., Miller, G., Culhane, J., Grobman, W., Simhan, H. N., Wadhwa, P. D., Williamson, D., McDade, T., Buss, C., Entringer, S., Adam, E. K., Qadir, S., Keenan-Delvin, L., Leigh, A., Borders, A. (2016). Patterns of peripheral cytokine expression during pregnancy in two cohorts and associations with inflammatory markers in cord blood. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 
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Adam, E. K., Heissel, J. A., Zeiders, K. H., Richeson J. A., Brodish, A., Ross, E. C., Ehrlich, K. B., Levy, D. J., Kemeny, M. E., Malanchuk, O., Peck, S., Fuller-Rowell, T. and Eccles, J. (2015). Developmental histories of perceived racial discrimination and diurnal cortisol profiles in adulthood: A 20-year prospective study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62: 279-291. 
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DeSantis, A. S., Adam, E. K., Hawkley, L. C., Kudielka, B. M., Cacioppo, J. T. (2015). Racial/ethnic differences in diurnal cortisol rhythms: Are they consistent over time?. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77: 6-15. 
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Frost, A., Hoyt, L. T., Chung, A. L., Adam, E. K. (2015). Daily life with depressive symptoms: Gender differences in adolescents’ everyday emotional experiences. Journal of Adolescence, 43: 132-141. 
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DeSantis, A. S., Adam, E. K., Kuzawa, C. W. (2015). Developmental origins of flatter diurnal cortisol rhythms: Associations of socioeconomic status with cortisol in young adults. American Journal of Human Biology, 27: 458-467. 
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Hoyt, L. T., Craske, M. G., Mineka, S., & Adam, E. K. (2015). Positive and negative affect and arousal: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with adolescent cortisol diurnal rhythms. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77: 392-401. 
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Zeiders, K., Till-Hoyt, L. T., & Adam, E. K. (2014). Associations between self-reported discrimination and diurnal cortisol rhythms among young adults: The moderating role of racial-ethnic minority status. .Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50: 280-288. 
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Hostinar, C.E., McQuillan, M. T., Mirous, H. J., Grant, K. E., & Adam, E. K. (2014). Cortisol responses to a Group Public Speaking Task for Adolescents: Variations by age, gender, and race. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50: 155-166. 
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Adam, E. K., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Kendall, A., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, Craske, M. G. (2014). Prospective Associations Between the Cortisol Awakening Response and Social Anxiety Disorder Onsets in Older Adolescents and Young Adults Over a Six-Year Follow-up : 2013 Curt Richter Award Winner. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 44: 47-59. 
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Dowd, J., Palermo, T., Chyu, L. & McDade, T (2014). Race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in stress and immune function in The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Social Science and Medicine, 115: 49-55. 
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Willner, C., Morris, P., Charles McCoy, D., & Adam, E. K. (2014). Diurnal cortisol in youth from risky families: Effects of cumulative risk exposure and variation in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR).Development and Psychopathology, 26: 999-1019. 

Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Craske, M. G., Griffith, J. W., Sutton, J., Redei, E. E., Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Hammen, C., Adam, E. K. (2014). Refining the candidate environment: Interpersonal stress, the serotonin transporter polymorphism, and gene-environment interactions on major depression. Clinical Psychological Science, 2(3): 235-248. 
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Adam, E. K. (2013). What Are Little Learners Made Of? Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice, and Leptin and TNF-a and Melatonin. Mind, Brain and Education, 7(4): 243-245. 
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Sweet, E., Nandi, A., Adam, E., & McDade, T. (2013). The high price of debt: Household financial debt and its impact on mental and physical health. Social Science & Medicine, 91: 94-100. 
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Papp, L., Pendry, P., Simon, C., & Adam, E. K. (2013). Spouses’ cortisol associations and moderators: Testing physiological synchrony and connectedness in everyday life. Family Process, 54(2). Nominated for the Wiley Prize in Family Studies (Alexis Walker Award): 284-298. 
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Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Doane, L., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R., Craske, M., & Adam, E. (2013). The cortisol awakening response predicts major depression: predictive stability over a 4-year follow-up and effect of depression history.Psychological Medicine, 43(03): 483-493. 
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Doane, L.D., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Craske, M., Griffith, J. W., & Adam, E. K. (2013). Are flatter diurnal cortisol rhythms associated with major depression and anxiety disorders in late adolescence? The role of life stress and daily negative emotion. Development of Psychopathology, 25 (2013): 629-642. 
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Pendry, P. & Adam, E. K. (2013). Child-related interparental conflict in infancy predicts child cognitive functioning in a nationally representative sample. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22(4): 502-515. 
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Trawalter, S., E. Adam, P. L. Chase-Lansdale, and J. Richeson (2012). Concerns about appearing prejudiced get under the skin: Stress responses to interracial contact in the moment and across time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48(3): 682-693. 

Trawalter, S., Adam, E. K., Chase-Lansdale, P. L., & Richeson, J. A. (2012). Concerns about appearing prejudiced get under the skin: Stress responses to interracial contact in the moment and across time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(3): 682-693. 
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Trawalter, S., Chung, V. S., DeSantis, A. S., Simon, C. D., & Adam, E. K. (2012). Physiological stress responses to the 2008 US presidential election: The role of policy preferences and social dominance orientation. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 15(3): 333-345. 
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Hoyt, L. T., Chase-Lansdale, P. L., McDade, T. W., & Adam, E. K. (2012). Positive youth, healthy adults: does positive well-being in adolescence predict better-perceived health and fewer risky health behaviors in young adulthood?.Journal of Adolescent Health, 50(1): 66-73. 
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Adam, E. K. (2012). Emotion-cortisol transactions occur over multiple time scales in development: Implications for research on emotion and development of emotional disorders. In T. A. Dennis, K. A. Buss, & Paul D. Hastings (Eds). Physiological Measures of Emotion from a Developmental Perspective: State of the Science. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 77(2): 17-27. 
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Gunnar, M. R., & Adam, E. K. (2012). The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system and emotion: Current wisdom and future directions. In T. A. Dennis, K. A. Buss, & Paul D. Hastings (Eds). Physiological Measures of Emotion from a Developmental Perspective: State of the Science. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 77(2): 109-119. 
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Adam, E., L. Chyu, L. Hoyt, L. Doane, J. Boisjoly, G. Duncan, L. Chase-Lansdale, and T. McDade (2011). Adverse adolescent relationship histories and young adult health: Cumulative effects of loneliness, low parental support, relationship instability, intimate partner violence and loss. Journal of Adolescent Health 49(3): 278 – 86 (NIHMS 260479). 
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Adam, E., L. T. Hoyt, and D. Granger (2011). Diurnal alpha amylase patterns in adolescents: Associations with puberty and with momentary mood states. Biological Psychology 88: 170 – 73. 
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Ludwig, J., Sanbonmatsu, L., Gennetian, L., Adam, E. K., Duncan, G. K., Katz, L. F., Kessler, R. C., Kling, J. R., Tessler Lindau, S., Whitaker, R. C., McDade, T. (2011). Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes : A Randomized Social Experiment. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(16): 1509-1519. 
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Adam, E., L. Doane, R. Zinbarg, S. Mineka, M. Craske, and J. Griffith (2010). Prospective prediction of major depressive disorder from diurnal cortisol patterns in late adolescence. Psychoneuroendocrinology 35(6): 921 – 31.
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Adam, E., and M. Kumari (2009). Assessing salivary cortisol in large-scale, epidemiological research.Psychoneuroendocrinology 34(10): 1423 – 36. 
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Adam, E. K., Sutton, J., Doane, L. & Mineka, S. (2008). Incorporating HPA-axis measures into preventative interventions for adolescent depression: Are we there yet?. Development and Psychopathology, 20(3): 975 – 1001. 
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Kudielka, B. M., Hawkley, L. C., Adam, E. K., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Compliance with ambulatory saliva sampling in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study (CHASRS) and associations with social support. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 34(2): 209 – 216. 
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DeSantis, A., Adam, E. K., Doane L., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R., Craske, M. (2007). Racial/ethnic differences in cortisol diurnal rhythms in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 41: 3 – 13. 
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Pendry, P. & Adam, E. K. (2007). Associations between interparental discord, parenting quality, parent emotion and cortisol levels in adolescent and kindergarten-aged children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31(3): 218-231. 
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Adam, E. K., Snell, E. K. & Pendry, P. (2007). Sleep timing and quantity in ecological and family context: A nationally representative time-diary study. Special Issue on Sleep and Family Processes, Journal of Family Psychology 21(1): 4-19. 
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Snell, E. K., Adam, E. K., & Duncan, G. J. (2007). Sleep and the body mass index and overweight status of children and adolescents. Child Development 78(1): 309-323. 
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Adam, E. K., Klimes-Dougan, B. & Gunnar, M. (2006). Social regulation of stress physiology in infancy, childhood and adulthood: Implications for mental health and education in Coch, D., Dawson, G. & Fischer, K. , Human Behavior and the Developing Brain: Atypical Development Guilford Press. 
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Adam, E. K. (2006). Transactions among trait and state emotion and adolescent diurnal and momentary cortisol activity in naturalistic settings. Psychoneuroendocrinology, Vol 31: 664-679. 
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Adam, Emma (2005). Momentary emotions and physiological stress levels in the everyday lives of working parentsin Schneider, Barbara, Waite, Linda, Being Together, Working Apart: Dual Career Families and the Work-Life Balance (pp. 105-134). Cambridge University Press. 
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Adam, E.K., Gunnar, M.R. & Tanaka, A. (2004). Adult attachment, parent emotion, and observed parenting behavior: Mediator and moderator models. Child Development: 75, 110 – 22. 
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Adam, E. K. (2004). Beyond quality: Parental and residential stability and children’s adjustment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13 (5): 210-213. 
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Adam, E.K. & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2002). Home sweet home(s): Parental separations, residential moves and adjustment in low-income adolescent girls. Developmental Psychology: 38, 792-805. 
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Adam, E.K. & Gunnar, M.R. (2001). Relationship functioning and home and work demands predict individual differences in diurnal cortisol patterns in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 26: 189-208. 
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Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (December, 2010). Escape from poverty: Parents’ roles in their children’s school succes.Presentation to the Board of Directors of the Ounce of Prevention Fund. Chicago, IL. 

Sommer, T.E., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (November, 2010). Early childhood education centers and mothers’ postsecondary attainment: A new conceptual framework for a dual-generation education intervention. Presentation as part of the symposium organized by Sommer and Chase-Lansdale, Parental Investments in Young Children: Innovative Educational Interventions for Low-Income Parents, at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Policy and Management. Boston, MA. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L., & Sommer, T.E. (October, 2010). Early childhood education center and mothers’ postsecondary attainment: A new conceptual framework for a dual-generation education interventio. Presentation in the Colloquium Series of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (July, 2010). When you have a child, you have to go beyond: Dual-generation education interventions for low-income familie. Presentation at the Joint OSC/IPR City and Schools Workshop at Sciences Po. Paris, France. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (June, 2010). New directions in early learning: Current successes and future opportunitie.Presentation to the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Child Development. New York, NY. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (June, 2010). New directions in early childhood education: Implications for breaking the cycle of povert. Presentation in the invited symposium, Promoting Health and Development in the Context of Economic Hardship, Head Start’s 10th National Research Conference. Washington, DC. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (May, 2010). Dual-generation interventions: Early childhood education as a promising context for promoting low-income mothers’ postsecondary succes. Presentation to the Women’s Board of Northwestern University. Chicago, IL. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (May, 2010). New directions in early learning: Current successes and future opportunitie.Keynote Address at the Washington State University President’s Summit on Early Learning. Seattle, WA. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L., & Sommer, T.E. (April, 2010). When you have a child, you have to go beyond: Dual-generation education interventions for low-income familie. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Dallas, TX. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (November, 2009). The importance of parental postsecondary education and employment for children. Presentation as part of the National Roundtable on The Educare Postsecondary Education Project, co-organizer with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Diana Rauner, and Karen Freel), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Seattle, WA. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (April, 2009). Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health.Presentation in the invited panel, Social Inequality and Health (co-organized with Jennifer Richeson), for the 40th Anniversary Conference of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (April, 2009). Perspectives on the emergence of health trajectories in childhood: Where is developmental science?. Presentation for invited session, Emergence of Health Trajectories in Childhood (co-organizer with Christine Bachrach), at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Detroit, MI. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (March, 2009). Harnessing parental investments in young children’s learning: Innovative educational interventions for low-income mothers. Paper presented at the international Parents Matter conference, London, England. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (November, 2008). Welfare reform: Implications for the long-term development of children, adolescents, and young adults. Presentation in the NIH Behavioral and Social Science Lecture Series, Bethesda, Maryland. Bethesda , MD. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L (August, 2008). Welfare reform: Implications for the long-term development of children, adolescents, and young adults. Presentation to the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy, Princeton University, Princeton. New Jersey, NJ. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L (June, 2008). Welfare reform: Implications for the long-term development of children, adolescents, and young adults. Presentation at the Conference on The Effects of Parental Workforce Participation on Children, University of Stavanger. Stavanger, Norway. 

Chase-Lansdale, L (May, 2008). Welfare reform: Implications for the long-term development of children, adolescents, and young adults. Presentation in the Colloquium Series of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC). New York, NY. 

Chase-Lansdale, L (April, 2008). Welfare reform: Implications for the long-term development of children, adolescents, and young adults. Presentation in the Series on Building Health Communities for Families, Department of Social Welfare, University of California-Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA. 

Chase-Lansdale, L (2008). Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health. Made to the Institute for Policy Research to various groups at Northwestern University and in Chicago. Chicago, IL. 

Palloni, A., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2008). Social inequality and disparities in health: Their connections over the lifecourse. Paper presented at the conference, Health and Attainment Over the Lifecourse: Reciprocal Pathways from Before Birth to Old Age. Co-sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago; Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University; The Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago; and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2007). Developmental science: A missing perspective in public health?. Invited colloquium at the School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Valdovinos D-Angelo, A., Guttmannova, K., and Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2007). Immigration and father involvement: Implications for the cognitive development of preschoolers. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Palacios, N., Gutmannova, K., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2007). Early reading achievement of children in immigrant families: Evidence from the ECLS-K. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Guttmannova, K. (2007). The role of immigration in the academic success of adolescents and young adults. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Guttmannova, K., Palacios, N., Valdovinos D’Angelo A., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2007). School success among low-income, urban youths from immigrant and non-immigrant families. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Valdovinos D-Angelo, A., & Palacios, N. (2006). A multidisciplinary perspective on the development of young children in immigrant families. Presented at the conference Immigrant families in America: Multidisciplinary views on the 21st century. Center for Child and Family Policy, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2006). A developmental perspective on welfare reform and children. Closing remarks at the conference Developmental, economic, and policy perspectives on welfare reform and child and family well-being: A decade after the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation (PRWORA) of 1996. Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. 

Bachman, H. J., Palacios, N., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2006). Family and child strengths that promote early reading and math proficiency. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California. 

Bachman, H. J., Palacios, N., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2006). Family and child strengths that promote early reading and math proficiency in low-income minority preschoolers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L (December, 2004). Welfare Reform and Preschoolers: Are Certain Children Resilient?. ? Colloquium presented to the Office of Population Research and the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L (November, 2004). Mapping the PK-3 Continuum: A New Vision for the Education of All Young Children. Policy Briefing, Shaping Children’s Destinies, Institute for Policy Research. Chicago, IL. 

Li-Grining, C. P., Bachman, H. J., Chase-Lansdale, P. L., & Votruba-Drzal, E (October, 2004). Preschoolers’ well-being in the era of welfare reform: Are child-specific risk factors at work?. Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s 26th Annual Fall Research Conference. Atlanta, GA. 

Chase-Lansdale, P.L (June, 2004). Welfare Reform and Preschoolers: Are Certain Children Resilient?. Presented at the meeting on Resilience and Recovery: Refocusing Research and Services on the Restoration of Health. Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies. Washington, DC. 

Bachman, H. J., Coley, R. L., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L (April, 2004). The influence of marriage, cohabitation, and family structure changes on low-income adolescents’ development. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Boston, MA. 

Li-Grining, C. P., Votruba-Drzal, E., Bachman, H. J., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L (April, 2004). Welfare reform and preschoolers: Are certain children at risk?. In Meyers, M. K. (Chair), Public Policy and the Wellbeing of Children and Youth. Paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. 

Coley, R. L., Bachman, H. J., Lohman, B. J., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (March, 2004). Maternal employment and adolescent well-being in low-income families: Economic and psychological moderators. R. L. Coley (Chair), Maternal employment dynamics and adolescent well-being in low income and single-parent families. Symposium paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence. Baltimore, MD. 

Coley, R. L., Bachman, H., Lohman, B., Li-Grining, C., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L (March, 2004). Maternal employment and adolescent well-being in low-income families: Economic and psychological moderators. Biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence. Baltimore, MD. 

Bachman, H. J., Coley, R. L., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L (2004). Family Structure Changes and Low Income Adolescents’ Well-Being. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual summer institute of the Family Research Consortium IV. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Chase-Lansdale, L Welfare reform: Implications for the long-term development of children, adolescents, and young adults. . Presentation in the Colloquium Series of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, April 7. Evanston, IL. 

Chase-Lansdale, L Health and Attainment Over the Lifecourse: Reciprocal Pathways from Before Birth to Old Age. I co-organized this conference. It was held at the University Club, and included over a hundred scholars and practitioners. 
The speakers were local, national, and internatonal. 
The conference was co-sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago; Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University; The Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago; and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago. It was highly successful, and I also gave the following presentation with Alberto Palloni: 

Palloni, A., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2008). Social inequality and disparities in health: Their connections over the lifecourse. Chicago, IL.