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W e l c o m e. . .
Welcome to our web site for the Inequality Summer Institute 2000, a workshop of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy.
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8:30 to
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast:
Taubman Dining Room (5th Fl) |
9:00 to
11:15 AM |
I. LOW-WAGE WORKERS and WELFARE DEBATES
Chair: Lawrence M. Mead
New York University
Harry J. Holzer
The Urban Institute
"When Employers Hire Welfare Recipients: Evidence from Four Cities" |
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William Julius Wilson
Harvard University
"The Three-City Welfare Project: A Multi-Methods Approach" |
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David T. Ellwood
Harvard University
"The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Social Policy Reforms on Work, Marriage, and Living Arrangements" |
11:30 to
1:00 PM |
Paul Osterman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Labor Market Strategies of the Industrial Areas Foundation" |
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Susan Eaton
Harvard University
"Beyond 'Unloving Care':Quality Care and Quality Jobs in Nursing Homes" |
1:00 to
2:30 PM |
Lunch: Taubman Dining Room (5th Fl.) |
2:30 to
4:45 PM |
II. DISCRIMINATION and RACE
Chair: Jane Mansbridge
Harvard University
Gary Orfield
Harvard University
"Dismantling Civil Rights: Assumptions, Consequences, and Research Needs" |
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Barbara Reskin
Harvard University
"Theorizing Employment Discrimination" |
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Mariko Chang
Harvard University
"Black-White Differences in the Use of Social Networks, Financial Professionals, and Publicly-Available Information when making Saving and Investment Decisions" |
| 5:00 PM |
Reception and barbecue in Kennedy School Courtyard |
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8:30 to
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast: KSG Forum (outside Littauer 150) |
9:00 to
11:15 AM |
III. VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
Paul Pierson
Harvard University
"The Politics of Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies" |
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Dan Devroye
Harvard University
"Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings Across Countries?" (co-authored with Richard Freeman) |
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Torben Iversen
Harvard University
"An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences with Applications to Advanced Democracies" |
11:30 to
1:00 PM |
Margarita Estevez-Abe
Harvard University
"Micro-level Analysis of Social Policy for Women" |
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R. Kent Weaver
The Brookings Institution
"The Politics of Pension Reform in OECD Countries" |
1:00 to
2:30 PM |
Lunch: Malkin Penthouse |
2:30 to
4:00 PM |
IV. EDUCATION DEBATES
Chair: Christopher Jencks
Harvard University
Jennifer Hochschild
Princeton University
"Public Education and the American Dream" (Co-authored with Nathan Scovronick, Princeton University) |
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Paul E. Peterson
Harvard University
"School Choice in Washington, D.C. and Dayton, Ohio: An Evaluation After One Year" |
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David Campbell
Harvard University
"Making Democratic Education Work: Schools, Social Capital, and Civic Education" |
| Dinner |
Open—We will try to arrange some National Fellow and Doctoral Fellow Dinners |
8:30 to
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast: KSG Forum (outside Littauer 150) |
9:00 to
10:30 AM |
V. DISTRIBUTING the GOODS
Jeffrey Liebman
Harvard University
"Redistribution in the Current Social Security System" |
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David Autor, Frank Levy (both MIT) and Richard J. Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Computer Cognition and Human Cognition: the Skill Content of Recent Technological Change" |
10:45 to
12:15 PM |
VI. THE FORTUNES of FAMILIES
Susan Mayer
University of Chicago
How the Effect of Family Background on Economic Success Has Changed over Time (Co-authored with Leonard Lopoo, University of Chicago) |
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Frank F. Furstenberg and Julie Kmec
University of Pennsylvania
"Managing Early Adulthood: A Follow-up of the Philadelphia Youth Study" |
| 12:15 PM |
Lunch (Malkin Penthouse) and departure |
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