April 15, 2016
The Tobin Project | Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellows Beth Truesdale (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) and Robert Manduca (Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy), and alumnae Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (Ph.D. '14) and Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), are among the group of national and international scholars selected to participate in The Tobin Project's Conference on Inequality and Decision-Making, to be held August 4-5 in Cambridge.
Truesdale, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Williamson will be presenting papers at the conference:
- Antecedents of Perceptions of Economic Inequality
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (London School of Economics), Oliver Hauser (Harvard), & Nour Kteily (Northwestern) - Modeling the Influence of Economic Inequality on Individual Health and Health Behavior: Sensitive Periods, Lagged Effects, and Cumulative Impacts
Beth Truesdale (Harvard) - Inequality, Precarity, and Perceptions of Deservingness
Kris-Stella Trump (Impaq International) & Vanessa Williamson (The Brookings Institution)
Manduca, a second-year Ph.D. student, is one of six students who will be presenting and discussing ongoing projects in a doctoral student workshop on August 6:
- Income Inequality and Structural Change
Robert Manduca (Harvard)