# Seminar: Spring 2016 [### Miles Corak: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers ](/event/miles-corak-intergenerational-earnings-mobility-and-inheritance-employers?occ_id=0)January 25, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | 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... event [### Suresh Naidu: Customer-Worker Conflict in Service Sector Labor Organizing ](/event/suresh-naidu-customer-worker-conflict-service-sector-labor-organizing?occ_id=0)February 1, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | 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... event [### David R. Williams: Race, Racism, and Racial Inequalities in Health ](/event/david-r-williams-race-racism-and-racial-inequalities-health?occ_id=0)February 8, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | 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... event [### Filiz Garip: On the Move: The Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration ](/event/filiz-garip-move-changing-mechanisms-mexico-us-migration?occ_id=0)February 22, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | 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... event [### Melissa S. Kearney: Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of High School ](/event/melissa-s-kearney-does-more-income-inequality-lead-less-upward-mobility?occ_id=0)February 29, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Melissa S. Kearney, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland. It is widely documented that places with higher levels of income inequality have lower rates of social mobility. But it is an open question as to whether higher income inequality leads to... event [### Mary C. Waters: The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: Legal Discrimination in the 21st Century ](/event/waters2016?occ_id=0)March 7, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EST | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology , Harvard University. The growth of mass incarceration, which disproportionately affects African Americans, and the growth of the population of undocumented immigrants, which disproportionately affects... event [### Paul Pierson: Goodbye to Pluralism? Studying Inequalities of Power in Contemporary American Politics ](/event/paul-pierson-goodbye-pluralism-studying-inequalities-power-contemporary-american?occ_id=0)March 21, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room In Person Paul Pierson, John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley. The efforts of contemporary political scientists to understand American politics reveal a striking paradox. On the one hand, “Americanists” have documented a... event [### Michael I. Norton: Spreading the Wealth and Health ](/event/michael-i-norton-spreading-wealth-and-health?occ_id=0)March 28, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Suzanne Mettler: When and How a New Policy Creates a New Politics ](/event/suzanne-mettler-contingency-policy-feedback-effects?occ_id=0)April 4, 2016 | 12:00AM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Joshua S. Goodman: College Access, Initial College Choice and Degree Completion ](/event/goodman16?occ_id=0)April 11, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Christopher Muller: Lead Exposure and Violent Crime in the Early Twentieth Century ](/event/christopher-muller-lead-exposure-and-violent-crime-early-twentieth-century?occ_id=0)April 18, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | 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... event [### Andrea Louise Campbell: Trapped in America's Safety Net: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom\* ](/event/andrea-louise-campbell-taxing-rich?occ_id=0)April 25, 2016 | 12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT | CGIS South-020, 1730 Cambridge Street* In Person Andrea Louise Campbell, Department Head and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT. * Note CGIS S-020 location this week. * When a car accident left her sister-in-law a quadriplegic, social policy scholar Andrea Campbell learned how... event