Fall 2015

Paul A. Jargowsky, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE), Rutgers University–Camden. To address the root causes of urban violence, police-community tensions, and the enduring legacy of racism, the genesis...

Paul Frymer, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University. About the speaker Paul Frymer is an Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University and Director of its Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). Frymer writes and teaches on...

John Laub, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park. In the first part of this presentation, I will discuss the life course of crime, drawing on longitudinal data for 500...

Note location this week Tracy Dennison, Professor of Social Science History, California Institute of Technology. With oligarchs, Party elites, or aristocratic overlords on the one hand, and impoverished masses on the other, inequality in Russia has always...

Sudhir Venkatesh, William B. Ransford Professor in Sociology and the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. This talk will present data from the Multi-City Gun Project, based at the Chicago Crime Lab. MCG is a multi-method project that explores...

Ryan D. Enos, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University. Inter-ethnic residential segregation is correlated with intergroup bias and conflict, poorly functioning states and civil societies, weak economic development, and ethnocentric political...

Sandra Susan Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Despite the central role job contacts play during the job-matching process, we still know little about the logics that underlie the decisions job contacts make about...

David Deming, Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education. The slow growth of high-paying jobs in the U.S. since 2000 and rapid advances in computer technology have sparked fears that human labor will eventually be...

Thomas Lemieux, Professor and School Director, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia. After a long period of relative stability in the postwar period, the Canadian earnings and income distribution has changed substantially over the...

Jennifer Jennings, Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University. School choice can potentially serve as a strategy for improving the outcomes of low-income students. But for school choice to be effective, low-income students and their families...