SEMINAR

Malcolm Wiener Inequality
& Social Policy Seminar Series

Fall 1999

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

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SEP 27, 1999

THEDA SKOCPOL, Departments of Government and Sociology, Harvard University

"Civic Engagement in American Democracy"

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OCT 1 , 1999

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: "Labor Market Participation, Racial Inequality and Political Attitudes: Major Findings from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI)"

A day-long symposium to celebrate the publication of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, a project of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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OCT 4 , 1999

ORLANDO PATTERSON, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

"Continuity and Change in Afro-American Gender and Familial Relations"

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OCT 18, 1999

EDWARD GLAESER, Department of Economics, Harvard University

"Why do the Poor Live in Cities?"

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OCT 25, 1999

MICHAEL KATZ, University of Pennsylvania

"Redefining the Welfare State in America, 1980-1999"

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NOV 1 , 1999

DOUGLAS MASSEY, University of Pennsylvania

"Use of Black English and Racial Discrimination in Housing: New Methods and Findings"

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NOV. 8, 1999

PAUL PIERSON , Department of Government, Harvard University

"The Politics of Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies"

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NOV 15, 1999

LAWRENCE M. MEAD, New York University

"Statecraft: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin"

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NOV 22, 1999

ALAN KRUGER, Princeton University

"Rethinking the Minimum Wage"

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NOV 29, 1999

FRANK FURSTENBERG, University of Pennsylvania

"Why it Took 30 Years to Do a Study: Findings from the Baltimore Project"

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DEC 6 , 1999

FRANK LEVY, MIT, and Richard Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Computers and the Demand for Occupations"

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DEC 13, 1999

SIDNEY VERBA, Department of Government

"Time, Money, and Political Equality"

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