Seminar: Fall 2019

Jonathan Rodden: A Model of Political Demonization
December 9, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Bell Hall—Belfer 500
In Person
Jonathan Rodden, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. About the speaker Jonathan Rodden is a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research and teaching interests are at...

Jennie E. Brand: Uncovering College Effect Heterogeneity Using Machine Learning
November 25, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Allison Dining Room
In Person
Jennie E. Brand, Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. Individuals do not respond uniformly to treatments, events, or interventions. Social scientists routinely partition samples into subgroups to explore how the...

Robert Vargas: Redistricting and the Territorialization of Urban Space
November 18, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Allison Dining Room
In Person
Robert Vargas, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Violence, Law, and Politics Lab, University of Chicago. Redistricting constitutes one of the most important and contentious subjects concerning U.S. democracy. This study...

Frederick Wherry: The Hidden Costs of Debt: The Case of Student Loans
November 11, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Allison Dining Rm
In Person
Frederick Wherry, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Debt is a critical but poorly understood contributor to social inclusion and its opposite; it enables the movement of future resources for use in the present...

Kathryn Edin: The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
October 28, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Wexner 434AB
In Person
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Co-director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University. We explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw...

Robert H. Frank: The Mother of All Cognitive Illusions
October 21, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Taubman G-50
In Person
Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell University. This seminar draws from Robert H. Frank's forthcoming book, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work (Princeton University Press...

Anna Stilz: Is There a Right to Exclude Economic Migrants?
October 7, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Wexner 434AB
In Person
Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University. Many economists emphasize the immense economic gains that liberalizing low-skilled migration to rich countries would allow extremely poor people to reap. Yet...

Jens Ludwig: Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms
September 23, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Bell Hall–Belfer500
In Person
Jens Ludwig, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it hard for the legal system to know...

Jennifer Doleac: Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
September 16, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Ellwood Democracy Lab (R-414AB)
In Person
Jennifer Doleac, Associate Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University. We evaluate how adopting risk assessment tools (algorithmic predictions of future offending) affects sentencing, recidivism and race/age disparities for felony offenders. We find...