# Seminar: Fall 2016 [### Anna Aizer: Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School, and Crime Records ](/event/anna-aizer-lead-and-juvenile-delinquency-new-evidence-linked-birth-school-and-crime?occ_id=0)December 12, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | (Note!) Harvard Kennedy School: *Malkin Penthouse* In Person Anna Aizer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Brown University. Joint with Janet Currie, Princeton University, and Joseph Doyle, MIT Sloan. Using individually linked data for RI children born between 1990 and 2004 that includes early childhood... event [### Ben W. Ansell: Inward Conquest: The Modern State and the Revolution in Government that Shook the World ](/event/ben-ansell-tba?occ_id=0)December 5, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Ben W. Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Co-authored by Johannes Lindvall, Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Scholar (2016-2017), Minda de Gunzburg Center... event [### Joseph Altonji: Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting ](/event/joseph-altonji-tba?occ_id=0)November 28, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Joseph G. Altonji, Thomas Dewitt Cuyler Professor of Economics, Yale University. We extend the control function approach introduced by Altonji and Mansfield (2016) for bounding the variance of group treatment effects by 1) introducing complementarities... event [### Mary Pattillo: The Future of Black Metropolis ](/event/mary-pattillo-future-black-metropolis?occ_id=0)November 21, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Nye AB In Person Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University. The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of the landmark text Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by... event [### Evelyn Z. Brodkin: After the Electoral Earthquake: The Politics of Inequality and Reflections on the Policy-Practice-Politics Connection ](/event/evelyn-z-brodkin-it-all-looks-different-ground-welfare-state-politics-and-street?occ_id=0)November 14, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Evelyn Z. Brodkin , Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, we confront difficult questions about what disrupted the previous political order, why, and what happens... event [### Linda M. Burton: Neuro-Ethnography, Trauma, and Poverty: Social Capital Trajectories among the Rural Poor ](/event/linda-m-burton-neuro-ethnography-trauma-and-poverty-social-capital-trajectories?occ_id=0)November 7, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Linda M. Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Social Sciences, Duke University. Using longitudinal ethnography and neuroscience approaches, I interrogate the relationship between everyday and critical-event based trauma and brain... event [### Derek Neal: From Myrdal to Smith and Welch to ??: The Path of Socioeconomic Progress for African-Americans. ](/event/derek-neal-tba?occ_id=0)October 31, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Derek A. Neal, Professor of Economics and Committee on Education, University of Chicago During most of the 20th century, blacks made steady progress relative to whites in the US. However, black labor market outcomes are not much better now, relative to... event [### Olav Sorenson: Do Startups Create Good Jobs? ](/event/olav-sorenson-do-startups-create-good-jobs?occ_id=0)October 24, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Olav Sorenson, Frederick Frank '54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management, Yale School of Management. We analyze Danish registry data from 1991 to 2006 to determine how firm age and size influence wages. Unadjusted statistics suggest that smaller... event [### Daniel Tichenor: Democracy's Shadow: The Political Development of America's Unauthorized Immigration Dilemma ](/event/daniel-tichenor-democracys-shadow-political-development-americas-unauthorized?occ_id=0)October 17, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Daniel Tichenor, Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon. During this toxic election season, undocumented immigrants have loomed large as scapegoats and... event [### Tommie Shelby: Prisons of the Forgotten: King on Ghettos and Economic Justice ](/event/tommie-shelby-prisons-forgotten-king-ghettos-and-economic-justice?occ_id=0)October 3, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University. I consider Martin Luther King Jr.’s account of the injustices ghettos represent. In particular, I highlight the strengths and limits... event [### Leslie McCall: The Opportunity Model of Beliefs about Inequality and Redistribution ](/event/leslie-mccall-opportunity-model-beliefs-about-inequality-and-redistribution?occ_id=0)September 26, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Leslie McCall, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University. The opportunity model posits that Americans care most about economic inequality when they think it is restricting economic opportunities. McCall and collaborators test... event [### Donald P. Green: Can Media Shape Social Norms? A Randomized Experiment Assessing Portrayals of Domestic Violence, Abortion, and Teacher Absenteeism in Rural Uganda ](/event/donald-p-green-can-media-shape-social-norms-randomized-experiment-assessing?occ_id=0)September 19, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Donald P. Green, J.W. Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University. To what extent do dramatized portrayals of social issues affect what audiences in developing countries think and do? Using a novel experimental paradigm, we assess the... event [### Brian A. Jacob: Differentiated Accountability and Education Production: Evidence from NCLB Waivers ](/event/brian-jacob-differentiated-accountability-and-education-production-evidence-nclb?occ_id=0)September 12, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Brian A. Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education granted states the opportunity to apply for waivers... event