Fall 2017

Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, University of Chicago. Social scientists increasingly use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to inform policy decisions relevant to inequality and other...

John D. Skrentny, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. There is widespread policymaker and academic agreement that “STEM” (science, technology, engineering and math) workers are critical for the innovation that drives economic...

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Duke University. The income gap in children’s academic achievement is large and growing in the United States, raising concerns about intergenerational social mobility and global...