SEMINAR

Malcolm Wiener Inequality
& Social Policy Seminar Series

Fall 2000

MONDAYS, NOON to 1:45 PM
Note: Presentation begins at 12:20 pm

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SEP 25, 2000

ROGER WALDINGER, UCLA

"What Employers Want: Prejudice and Preference in the Multi-Ethnic Labor Market"

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OCT 2 , 2000

ROBERTO FERNANDEZ, MIT

"Skill-Based Technological Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence from a Plant Retooling"

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OCT 16, 2000

PAULA ENGLAND, University of Pennsylvania

"The Public Benefits and Private Costs of Caring Labor"

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OCT 23, 2000

GEORGE AKERLOF, University of California, Berkeley

"Economics and Identity"

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OCT 30, 2000

CLAUDE M. STEELE, Stanford University

"How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Performance and Identity: a Connection to Education Policy"

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NOV. 6, 2000

CAROLINE MINTER-HOXBY, Department of Economics, Harvard University

"Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation"

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NOV 13, 2000

MARGARET WEIR, University of California, Berkeley

"Metropolitan Coalition-Building and the New Federalism"

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NOV 20, 2000

MARCELO SUAREZ-OROZCO, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Rethinking Immigration"

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NOV 27, 2000

OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT

"The Hard Lessons of European Unemployment"

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DEC 4, 2000

MICHAEL PORTER, Harvard Business School

"Capitalism and Inequality: The Case of Inner-City Economic Development"

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DEC 11, 2000

ANNE PIEHL, Kennedy School of Government

"Warranted Disparity? Sentencing, Race, and Legal Factors"

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DEC 18, 2000

EDWARD WOLFF, New York University

"Median Wealth: Why is it Growing So Slowly?"

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