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Seminar: Fall 2019

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Alumni awarded RSF Presidential Authority grants

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Russell Sage Foundation | Alumni Michael Hankinson (PhD in Government & Social Policy, 2017), Sarah Halpern-Meekin (PhD in Sociology & Social Policy, 2019), and Nathan Wilmers (PhD in Sociology, 2018) are among the fall 2019 recipients of RSF Presidential...

Danielle Allen to receive Governor’s Award in Humanities

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Harvard Gazette | Harvard ethicist and author Danielle Allen will be honored this fall for her contributions to the humanities in the Bay State when she accepts her 2019 Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Award recipients are nominated each year by Mass...

Andrew Garin: Upjohn Institute 2018 Dissertation Award

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Upjohn Institute Andrew Garin, PhD in Political Economy and Government '18, has been awarded the Upjohn Institute's 2018 Dissertation Award for best dissertation in employment research. Garin's research lies at the intersection of labor economics and...

Alexandra Killewald and Brielle Bryan: ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population

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Awardees | Alexandra Killewald and Brielle Bryan PhD 2018 received the American Sociological Association's Population Section Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for "Falling Behind: The Role of Inter- and Intragenerational Processes in...

The art of deciding with data: evidence from how employers translate credit reports into hiring decisions

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About half of US employers consider personal credit history when hiring, a practice that connects individuals’ prospects for employment to their financial pasts. Yet little is known about how employers translate credit reports, complicated financial...

Jonathan Rodden: A Model of Political Demonization

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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...

Anna Stilz: Is There a Right to Exclude Economic Migrants?

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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: Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes Through Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Three Field Experiments

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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...

Frederick Wherry: The Hidden Costs of Debt: The Case of Student Loans

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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...

Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Jennifer Hochschild

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Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University Race and class inequality are at the crux of many policy disputes in American cities. But are they the only factors driving political discord? In Race/Class Conflict...