#  The Tobin Project: Conference on Inequality and Decision-Making Participants Selected 

 





April 15, 2016

 

 

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**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](http://tobinproject.org/inequality2016), 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)



 

 

 



 

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