# Seminar: Fall 2018 [### Seema Jayachandran: The Effects of Attending Kindergarten on Child Development in Rural India ](/event/seema-jayachandran-effects-attending-kindergarten-child-development-rural-india?occ_id=0)December 3, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University. Primary school enrollment is now nearly universal in many developing countries, but children from poor families arrive less prepared than better-off peers who attended pre-kindergarten... event [### Will S. Dobbie: The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration ](/event/will-s-dobbie-measuring-bias-consumer-lending?occ_id=0)November 26, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Will S. Dobbie, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s medium-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits... event [### Vesla M. Weaver: Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in Race-Class Subjugated Communities ](/event/vesla-m-weaver-portals-politics-grassroots-narratives-policing-race-class?occ_id=0)November 19, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Vesla M. Weaver, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, Americans learned that public authorities in Ferguson, Missouri and several other municipalities had imposed a ‘predatory... event [### Michael Burawoy: Public Sociology in the Era of Trump ](/event/michael-burawoy-public-sociology-era-trump?occ_id=0)November 12, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | NOTE CHANGE: Now Wexner 436 In Person Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. What is the "Era of Trump"? As scholars how might we engage it? Does sociology have any particular contributions to make? What changes in the university make such contributions... event [### Suzanne Mettler: The Government-Citizen Disconnect ](/event/suzanne-mettler-government-citizen-disconnect?occ_id=0)November 5, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Suzanne Mettler, The John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University. Nearly all Americans today benefit from assistance from government at some point in their lives, and the average person receives a higher portion of income from... event [### Kirabo Jackson: Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity | PIER Seminar ](/event/pier-seminar-kirabo-jackson-tba?occ_id=0)October 30, 2018 | 4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT | HGSE Larson 106 In Person Kirabo Jackson, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University. PARTERNING IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (PIER) PUBLIC SEMINAR Co sponsored by Inequality & Social Policy Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from... event [### Kathleen Gerson: Different Ways of \*Not\* Having It All: Constructing Strategies of Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity ](/event/kathleen-gerson-different-ways-not-having-it-all-constructing-strategies-gender?occ_id=0)October 29, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science, New York University. As jobs become more precarious, intimate relationships more fragile, and public-private boundaries more porous, Americans face intensifying... event [### James R. Elliott: Damages Done: The Longitudinal Impacts of Natural Hazards on Wealth Inequality in the United States ](/event/james-elliott-damages-done-longitudinal-impacts-natural-hazards-wealth-inequality?occ_id=0)October 22, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person James R. Elliott, Professor of Sociology, Rice University Damages caused by natural hazards and recovery efforts launched in their aftermath are contributing to increased wealth inequality in the United States. Estimates indicate that during the past... event [### Betsey Stevenson: Does Inequality Reduce Subjective Well-Being? ](/event/betsey-stevenson-tba?occ_id=0)October 15, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Betsey Stevenson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Universitiy of Michigan. Diminishing marginal well-being from income suggests that redistributing income from the rich to the poor will raise average levels of well-being within a society. This... event [### Emilio J. Castilla: Language and Gender in the Online Recruitment Process ](/event/tba-2?occ_id=0)October 1, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Emilio J. Castilla, NTU Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management About the speaker Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Castilla studies how social networks influence organizational... event [### Janet Currie: Violence while in Utero: The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes ](/event/janet-currie-violence-while-utero-impact-assaults-during-pregnancy-birth-outcomes?occ_id=0)September 24, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Co-Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing. Evidence about the effects of violent crime on victims is sparse, but is necessary to determine the social costs of... event [### Mark Duggan: When Labor’s Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Men ](/event/inequality-seminar?occ_id=0)September 17, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Mark Duggan, Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University View paper (Joint with Courtney C. Coile) About the speaker Mark Duggan is The Trione Director of SIEPR and The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford... event [### Nicholas Carnes: The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office—and What We Can Do about It ](/event/nicholas-carnes-cash-ceiling-why-only-rich-run-office%E2%80%94and-what-we-can-do-about-it?occ_id=0)September 10, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Nicholas Carnes, Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University J oin us for a discussion with Nicholas Carnes on his new book, The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office—and What We Can Do about It... event