Fall 2018

Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University. Primary school enrollment is now nearly universal in many developing countries, but children from poor families arrive less prepared than better-off peers who attended pre-kindergarten...

Will S. Dobbie, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s medium-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits...

Vesla M. Weaver, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, Americans learned that public authorities in Ferguson, Missouri and several other municipalities had imposed a ‘predatory...

Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. What is the "Era of Trump"? As scholars how might we engage it? Does sociology have any particular contributions to make? What changes in the university make such contributions...

Suzanne Mettler, The John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University. Nearly all Americans today benefit from assistance from government at some point in their lives, and the average person receives a higher portion of income from...

Kirabo Jackson, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University. PARTERNING IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (PIER) PUBLIC SEMINAR Co sponsored by Inequality & Social Policy Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from...

Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science, New York University. As jobs become more precarious, intimate relationships more fragile, and public-private boundaries more porous, Americans face intensifying...

Betsey Stevenson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Universitiy of Michigan. Diminishing marginal well-being from income suggests that redistributing income from the rich to the poor will raise average levels of well-being within a society. This...

James R. Elliott, Professor of Sociology, Rice University Damages caused by natural hazards and recovery efforts launched in their aftermath are contributing to increased wealth inequality in the United States. Estimates indicate that during the past...

Emilio J. Castilla, NTU Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management About the speaker Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Castilla studies how social networks influence organizational...