Seminar: Spring 2016

Miles Corak: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
January 25, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Miles Corak, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University. About 4 in 10 young adults have worked for an employer that also employed their father...

Suresh Naidu: Customer-Worker Conflict in Service Sector Labor Organizing
February 1, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Suresh Naidu, Assistant Professor in Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. We use a new dataset on labor organizing in a large retail firm to examine conflict between workers and customers in the service sector. We show that...

David R. Williams: Race, Racism, and Racial Inequalities in Health
February 8, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School Allison Dining Room
In Person
David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University. View presentation slides About the speaker David R. Williams is...

Filiz Garip: On the Move: The Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
February 22, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Filiz Garip, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was...

Michael I. Norton: Spreading the Wealth and Health
March 28, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Michael I. Norton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey...

Suzanne Mettler: When and How a New Policy Creates a New Politics
April 4, 2016
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12:00AM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Suzanne Mettler, Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Government Department, Cornell University. Bridging Political Behavior and Policy Feedback Analysis Following E.E. Schattschneider’s famous observation that “a new policy creates a new...

Joshua S. Goodman: College Access, Initial College Choice and Degree Completion
April 11, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Joshua S. Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. We explore whether initial college choice affects low-skilled students’ degree completion rates. Admission to Georgia’s public universities requires minimum SAT scores...

Christopher Muller: Lead Exposure and Violent Crime in the Early Twentieth Century
April 18, 2016
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Christopher Muller Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, Columbia University. Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (beginning fall 2016). Co-authored by James Feigenbaum, Ph.D. candidate in Economics, Harvard...