# Seminar: Fall 2015 [### Alexandre Mas: Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression? ](/event/join-us-fall-when-malcolm-wiener-seminar-series-resumes?occ_id=0)September 14, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Jennifer Jennings: Leveling the Playing Field for School Choice in New York City ](/event/jennifer-jennings-tba?occ_id=0)September 21, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Thomas Lemieux: Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census ](/event/thomas-lemieux-top-incomes-canada-evidence-census?occ_id=0)September 28, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### David Deming: The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market ](/event/tba?occ_id=0)October 5, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Sandra Susan Smith: Want, Need, Fit: The Logics Underlying Job Contacts' Assistance ](/event/sandra-susan-smith-want-need-fit-cultural-logics-underlying-job-contacts-assistance?occ_id=0)October 19, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Ryan D. Enos: Why Does Segregation Cause Prejudice? ](/event/tba-0?occ_id=0)October 26, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Sudhir Venkatesh: Is Collective Efficacy a Form of Social Exchange? Ethnographic Data on Gun Markets and Housing Mobility in Chicago ](/event/sudhir-venkatesh-tba?occ_id=0)November 2, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person 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... event [### Tracy K. Dennison: “Four legs good, two legs bad”: Inequality in Russia in Historical Perspective ](/event/tracy-k-dennison?occ_id=0)November 9, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | CGIS South-020, 1730 Cambridge St. In Person 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... event [### John Laub: A Tale of Two Eras: A Reconsideration of Turning Points and Pathways Out of Crime ](/event/john-laub-tale-two-eras-reconsideration-turning-points-and-pathways-out-crime?occ_id=0)November 16, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person 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... event [### 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 ](/event/paul-frymer-politics-mass-deportation-united-states?occ_id=0)November 30, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | 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... event [### Paul Jargowsky: The Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy ](/event/paul-jargowsky-architecture-segregation-civil-unrest-concentration-poverty-and?occ_id=0)December 7, 2015 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person 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... event