# Seminar: Fall 2017 [### Christopher Uggen: "Sexual Harassment and the Life Course" ](/event/christopher-uggen-tba?occ_id=0)December 11, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Christopher Uggen, Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology and Law, University of Minnesota. In December 2017, sexual harassment is commanding a degree of public attention not seen since the 1998 Clinton/Lewinsky case. In the ensuing two... event [### Anthony S. Chen: The Forgotten Origins of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions ](/event/anthony-s-chen-tba?occ_id=0)December 4, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Anthony S. Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University. This paper chronicles the advent of race-conscious affirmative action programs in college admissions, and it argues that they should be understood as a... event [### Richard V. Reeves: Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About It ](/event/richard-v-reeves-dream-hoarders-how-american-upper-middle-class-leaving-everyone?occ_id=0)November 27, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families, Brookings Institution. In conversation with David T. Ellwood, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and Isabelle and Scott Black... event [### Caroline M. Hoxby: Returns to College Majors in the U.S. ](/event/caroline-m-hoxby-tba?occ_id=0)November 20, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Caroline M. Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University. Two papers will be presented: Returns to College Majors in the U.S. Raw differences in first-job earnings across college majors are often publicized as "returns to... event [### Thomas Shapiro: Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future ](/event/thomas-shapiro-toxic-inequality-how-americas-wealth-gap-destroys-mobility-deepens?occ_id=0)November 13, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Thomas M. Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy, Brandeis University. Wealth is not just a matter of money. As our interviews reveal, wealth is also about power, status, opportunity, identity, and self-image. Wealth confers transformative... event [### Frank R. Baumgartner: Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops ](/event/frank-r-baumgartner-racial-disparities-traffic-stops?occ_id=0)November 6, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Frank R. Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read a chapter from the speaker's forthcoming book, Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tells Us about... event [### Kenneth Scheve: Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence from Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom ](/event/kenneth-scheve-tba?occ_id=0)October 30, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Kenneth Scheve, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Authoritarian values have long been thought to be an important determinant of public opinion and political behavior, including most recently for surging waves of populist candidates... event [### David E. Campbell: Godless Politics: The Politics of Secularism in the United States ](/event/david-campbell-godless-politics-politics-secularism-united-states?occ_id=0)October 23, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person David E. Campbell, Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame. There is growing evidence that secularism in America is on the rise. Over one-in-five Americans report not having a religious affiliation, making them the second... event [### Nicholas A. Bloom: The Great Micro Moderation ](/event/nicholas-bloom-great-micro-moderation?occ_id=0)October 16, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Nicholas A. Bloom, William Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University. This paper documents using US administrative data that individual income and firm growth volatility in the United States have both declined by about 1/3 since 1980—a phenomenon... event [### Celeste Watkins-Hayes: Remaking a Life, Reversing an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Transformation ](/event/celeste-watkins-hayes-remaking-life-reversing-epidemic-hivaids-and-politics?occ_id=0)October 2, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University. How do women remake, not simply rebuild, their lives after traumas associated with social and economic disadvantage? Drawing upon interviews with over one... event [### Jens Ludwig: Personalized policies ](/event/jens-ludwig-personalized-policies?occ_id=0)September 25, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, University of Chicago. Social scientists increasingly use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to inform policy decisions relevant to inequality and other... event [### John D. Skrentny: Is there a STEM Worker Crisis? Science and Engineering Workforce Development in the U.S. ](/event/john-skrentny-there-stem-worker-crisis-science-and-engineering-workforce?occ_id=0)September 18, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person John D. Skrentny, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. There is widespread policymaker and academic agreement that “STEM” (science, technology, engineering and math) workers are critical for the innovation that drives economic... event [### Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat: The Effect of Increased Income on Children's Academic Achievement: Evidence from the Marcellus Shale ](/event/elizabeth-oltmans-ananat-effect-increased-income-childrens-academic-achievement?occ_id=0)September 11, 2017 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Duke University. The income gap in children’s academic achievement is large and growing in the United States, raising concerns about intergenerational social mobility and global... event