SEMINAR

Malcolm Wiener Center
Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series

Fall 2007

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

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SEPT 17 , 2007

BRUCE MEYER, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

"Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty "

(Note!) Location: CGIS South-020 (Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street). » View map

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SEPT 24 , 2007

GREG DUNCAN , School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University.

"School Readiness and Later Achievement"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 1 , 2007

DEAN KARLAN , Department of Economics, Yale University

"Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts"

Location: Bell Hall (5th FL, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 8 , 2007

NO SEMINAR: Columbus Day

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OCT 15 , 2007

DAVID RUEDA , Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University

"The Political Consequences of Inequality"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 22 , 2007

GLENN LOURY, Economics, Brown University

“Are Black Americans a People? Self-Help Rhetoric and the Limits of Community”

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 29 , 2007

LARRY BARTELS , Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University

"Partisan Biases in Economic Accountability"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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NOV 5 , 2007

MICHAEL BARR , University of Michigan Law School

"The Financial Lives of the Poor: Evidence from a New Survey"

(Note!) Location: Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Graduate School of Education, Appian Way, Cambridge. » View map

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NOV 12, 2007

NO SEMINAR: Veteran's Day

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NOV 19 , 2007

LISA BERKMAN, Harvard School of Public Health

Presentation Title: "The Health Impact of Work Family Stress: Epidemiologic Evidence and Policy Implications"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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NOV 26, 2007

PETER GOTTSCHALK, Department of Economics, Boston College

"Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?"

(Note!) Location: Bell Hall (Belfer Building, 4th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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DEC 3 , 2007

JIM FLYNN , Department of Political Studies, University of Otago (NZ)

"Intelligence, Education and Society "

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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DEC 10 , 2007

JOHN ABOWD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

"The Covariance of Earnings and Hours Revisited"

(Note!) Location: Bell Hall (5th FL, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

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DEC 17 , 2007 (Rescheduled for Spring 2008)

MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

"Superstars and Rising Inequality: What Can We Learn from Tiger Woods?"

Location: Malkin Penthouse (4 FL, Littauer Building), Kennedy School of Govt.

 

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