Fall 2019

Jonathan Rodden, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. About the speaker Jonathan Rodden is a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research and teaching interests are at...

Robert E. Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University. We study the paths over time that individual workers follow in the labor market, as revealed in the monthly Current Population Survey...

Jennie E. Brand, Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. Individuals do not respond uniformly to treatments, events, or interventions. Social scientists routinely partition samples into subgroups to explore how the...

Robert Vargas, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Violence, Law, and Politics Lab, University of Chicago. Redistricting constitutes one of the most important and contentious subjects concerning U.S. democracy. This study...

Frederick Wherry, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Debt is a critical but poorly understood contributor to social inclusion and its opposite; it enables the movement of future resources for use in the present...

Kathryn Edin, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Co-director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University. We explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw...

Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell University. This seminar draws from Robert H. Frank's forthcoming book, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work (Princeton University Press...

Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University. Many economists emphasize the immense economic gains that liberalizing low-skilled migration to rich countries would allow extremely poor people to reap. Yet...

David Broockman, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. About the speaker David Broockman is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In January 2020, he joins...

Rucker C. Johnson, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. PARTERNING IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (PIER) PUBLIC SEMINAR Co sponsored by Inequality & Social Policy | Info Inequality in schools...