# Seminar: Fall 2019 [### Jonathan Rodden: A Model of Political Demonization ](/event/jonathan-rodden-model-political-demonization?occ_id=0)December 9, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | 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... event [### Robert E. Hall: The Extreme Inequality of the Burden of Unemployment, Interim Jobs, and Brief Spells Out of the Labor Force ](/event/robert-e-hall-extreme-inequality-burden-unemployment-interim-jobs-and-brief-spells?occ_id=0)December 2, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | Note change: Now in Malkin Penthouse In Person Robert E. Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University. We study the paths over time that individual workers follow in the labor market, as revealed in the monthly Current Population Survey... event [### Jennie E. Brand: Uncovering College Effect Heterogeneity Using Machine Learning ](/event/jennie-e-brand-uncovering-college-effect-heterogeneity-using-machine-learning?occ_id=0)November 25, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | 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... event [### Robert Vargas: Redistricting and the Territorialization of Urban Space ](/event/robert-vargas-redistricting-and-territorialization-urban-space?occ_id=0)November 18, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | 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... event [### Frederick Wherry: The Hidden Costs of Debt: The Case of Student Loans ](/event/frederick-wherry-hidden-costs-debt-case-student-loans?occ_id=0)November 11, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | 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... event [### Kathryn Edin: The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men ](/event/kathryn-edin-tenuous-attachments-working-class-men?occ_id=0)October 28, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | 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... event [### Robert H. Frank: The Mother of All Cognitive Illusions ](/event/robert-h-frank-mother-all-cognitive-illusions?occ_id=0)October 21, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | 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... event [### Anna Stilz: Is There a Right to Exclude Economic Migrants? ](/event/anna-stilz-there-right-exclude-economic-migrants?occ_id=0)October 7, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | 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... event [### David Broockman: Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes Through Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Three Field Experiments ](/event/david-broockman-reducing-exclusionary-attitudes-through-interpersonal-conversations?occ_id=0)September 30, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Rm In Person David Broockman, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. About the speaker David Broockman is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In January 2020, he joins... event [### Rucker C. Johnson: Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works | PIER Seminar ](/event/rucker-c-johnson-children-dream-why-school-integration-works?occ_id=0)September 24, 2019 | 4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT | HGSE Larsen 106 In Person Rucker C. Johnson, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. PARTERNING IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (PIER) PUBLIC SEMINAR Co sponsored by Inequality & Social Policy | Info Inequality in schools... event [### Jens Ludwig: Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms ](/event/jens-ludwig-discrimination-age-algorithms?occ_id=0)September 23, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | 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... event [### Jennifer Doleac: Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans ](/event/jennifer-doleac-algorithmic-risk-assessment-hands-humans?occ_id=0)September 16, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | 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... event [### Julia Burdick-Will: Student Mobility and Violent Crime Exposure at Baltimore City Public Elementary Schools ](/event/julia-burdick-will-student-mobility-and-violent-crime-exposure-baltimore-city?occ_id=0)September 9, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Julia Burdick-Will, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education, Johns Hopkins University. High levels of school mobility are a problem in many urban districts. Many of these same districts are also dealing with high rates of violent crime. In this... event