Seminar: Fall 2015

Alexandre Mas: Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?
September 14, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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CGIS South-020, 1730 Cambridge St. (Note that this location is for the first seminar ONLY. Subsequent seminars will meet at the Harvard Kennedy School).
In Person
Alexandre Mas, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Does pay disclosure change wage setting at the top of the public sector distribution? While the literature has made progress in understanding how preferences about inequality...

Jennifer Jennings: Leveling the Playing Field for School Choice in New York City
September 21, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
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...

Thomas Lemieux: Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census
September 28, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Malcolm Wiener Auditorium (Taubman G-1)
In Person
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...

David Deming: The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
October 5, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
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...

Sandra Susan Smith: Want, Need, Fit: The Logics Underlying Job Contacts' Assistance
October 19, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
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...

Ryan D. Enos: Why Does Segregation Cause Prejudice?
October 26, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
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...

Paul Frymer: The Politics of Mass Deportation in the United States: State Authority, Public Activism, and Government Removal Policies Targeting Native Americans and African Americans in the 19th Century
November 30, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
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...