Thursday, January 16, 2025
7:30 a.m.
We are pleased to invite you to the 2025 Indiana Economic Outlook, our annual premier event featuring esteemed keynote speaker David E. Altig, PhD, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. A comprehensive local and state economic forecast presented by Michael J. Hicks, the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research will be included, as well as a Q&A session where you can ask questions of our speakers.
12 p.m.
Dr. Richard J. Petts will discuss his recent book titled: "Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers". The book provides an overview of fatherhood in the United States today to explore why fathers continue to be less involved in childcare than mothers and to strategize about how we can work toward encouraging and promoting greater father involvement. In doing so, this book provides a unique and important contribution to our understanding of the culture of fatherhood in the U.S., and the implications of father involvement for gender equality, through the use of quantitative survey data and interviews with fathers.