# Inequality Reexamined Celebrating Christopher "Sandy" Jencks And the 40th anniversary of *Inequality* **An Inequality & Social Policy event** October 11, 2013, at the Harvard Kennedy School. - [Read Claude Fischer's highlights in the *Boston Review*](http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/poverty-breeds-more-poverty). - [View program booklet](/file_url/377) - [See who joined us](/file_url/378) - [Jump to videos](#videos) **WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION: INEQUALITY REEXAMINED** **Kathryn Edin** | Harvard Kennedy School. *The occasion and aims of this conference.* **I. REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK OF CHRISTOPHER JENCKS** \[9:05-9:30 AM\] *Two longtime colleagues assess the significance of Christopher Jencks’s defining contributions for our understanding of inequality and social policy.* **Christopher Winship** | Sociology, Harvard University. *Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America*, by Christopher Jencks, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert Gintis, Barbara Heyns, and Stephan Michelson. Basic Books, 1972. **William Julius Wilson** | Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University. *Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass*, by Christopher Jencks. Harvard University Press, 1992. **II. WHAT DISCIPLINE “*X*” CAN TEACH US ABOUT INEQUALITY** \[9:30-11:30 AM\] *What are the most important recent insights about inequality and social policy from different branches of the social sciences? What are the biggest unsolved problems and the most promising avenues for future research in each discipline?* **A CONVERSATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES** **David T. Ellwood** | Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School (Moderating). **THE PROBLEM** **Bruce Western** | Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University. **Four Facts about U.S. Inequality** [View slides](/file_url/380) **FOUR DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES** - **ECONOMICS** **Lawrence F. Katz** | Economics, Harvard University. [View slides](/file_url/381) - **POLITICAL SCIENCE** **Ian Shapiro** | Political Science, Yale University. [View white paper](/file_url/382) - **SOCIOLOGY** **Katherine S. Newman** | James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. [View white paper](/file_url/383) - **PSYCHOLOGY** **Eldar Shafir** | Psychology, Princeton University. [View white paper](/file_url/384) **SESSIONS III, IV, AND V—VIDEO** To our tremendous disappointment, all footage from the morning sessions I and II has been lost due to a failure of the camera's memory card. This includes the reflections on Sandy's work by Christopher Winship and William Julius Wilson, as well as the morning panel with Bruce Western, Lawrence Katz, Ian Shapiro, Katherine Newman, Eldar Shafir, and David Ellwood. In the absence of video, we have posted their slides and prepared remarks above. Thankfully, all footage from the afternoon, beginning with Sandy's midday remarks, is intact. Sessions III, IV, and V continue below. **III. NEW EMPIRICAL FINDINGS** *Three new empirical papers.* **IV. TEN BIG IDEAS** *Ten big ideas in inequality and social policy. From 10 social scientists. In 10 minutes each.* **V. CELEBRATING SANDY** *Stories, toasts, and more—including the film premiere: 'Unequaled: The Incomparable Sandy Jencks.'* ![sandyfestsandy.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/sandyfestsandy.jpg) [](/file_url/279) ![Click to enlarge](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/sandyfestposter6big.jpg?itok=qqdQEoPa) **MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF** [Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener) [Harvard Kennedy School](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/)[](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener) [Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies ](http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/)[Harvard Department of Sociology ](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/)[Taubman Center for State and Local Government](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/taubman) [### seminarschedulespring14.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulespring14.pdf) [### seminarschedulespring15.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulespring15.pdf) [### seminarschedulefall12.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulefall12.pdf) [### seminarschedulespring13.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulespring13.pdf) [### seminarschedulefall11.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulefall11.pdf) [### liebman15.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/liebman15.pdf) ## THE CONFERENCE ![inequality_book.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/inequality_book.jpg?itok=kZJlfD1R) ![20131011112810_00005.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/20131011112810_00005.jpg?itok=Ny837CQY) David Ellwood, Bruce Western, Lawrence Katz, and Ian Shapiro ![Katherine Newman and Eldar Shafir](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/20131011112810_00002-008.jpg?itok=qAAwTtKO) Katherine Newman and Eldar Shafir ![20131011122825_00002-001.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/20131011122825_00002-001_0.jpg?itok=Ic05OS5E) Christopher Jencks and Timothy Smeeding ![20131011122825_00010-003.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/20131011122825_00010-003.jpg?itok=-hlfMOP8) ![20131011122825_00012-004.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/20131011122825_00012-004.jpg?itok=AGIo_sR5) ([View larger](/file_url/411)) [### seminarschedulespring14.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulespring14.pdf) [### seminarschedulespring15.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulespring15.pdf) [### seminarschedulefall12.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulefall12.pdf) [### seminarschedulespring13.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulespring13.pdf) [### seminarschedulefall11.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/seminarschedulefall11.pdf) [### liebman15.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/inequality/files/liebman15.pdf) - 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Four decades. 108 pages. 17,323 words. ![sandyfestposter4.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/sandyfestposter4.jpg?itok=zCBloTrQ) **The gift book.** Summarized. ([View larger](/file_url/413)) ![img_5974-008.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/img_5974-008.jpg?itok=n5C72lgl) **Sandyfest I toasts** | April 2013. Plus Jennifer Sykes, Ph.D.'11 (just outside frame). ([View larger](/file_url/418))