Seminar: Spring 2017

The Shifting Economic & Political Landscape: A Conversation with Larry Summers
May 1, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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HKS Allison Dining Room
In Person
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University. In conversation with David T. Ellwood, Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy...

Robert J. Sampson: The Life Course of Crime and Criminalization
April 24, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University. The literature on mass incarceration and the effects of a criminal record on later outcomes is largely disconnected from research on crime and the life course. This...

Roland G. Fryer, Jr: Using Economics to Solve Racial Inequality
April 17, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University. As part of an ongoing research narrative using the tools of economics to understand and solve inequality in America, Dr. Fryer will discuss unpublished results from a recent study...

David Autor: When Work Disappears: Consequences of the Declining Marriage-Market Value of Men for Marriage, Fertility, and Children's Living Circumstances
April 10, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT. The structure of marriage and child-rearing in U.S. households has undergone two marked shifts in the last three decades: a steep decline in the prevalence of marriage among young adults, and a sharp rise in...

Carol S. Steiker: The Criminalization of Poverty
April 3, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Carol S. Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Poverty and crime intersect in many unfortunate ways, and it has become common to refer to “the criminalization of poverty” to describe a range of pathologies in the criminal...

Danielle Allen: Political Equality as a Human Good
March 20, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University. About the speaker Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She is a political...

Mario Luis Small: The Rising Heterogeneity of Poor Neighborhoods across Cities
March 6, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Mario Luis Small, Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. In the 1990s, researchers came to understand poor urban neighborhoods as blighted, depopulated areas, based on important fieldwork by ethnographic observers in a handful of...

Michael Hout: Was Trump a Meteor or a Volcano? Racial Resentment and Immigration Built Up as Strong Predictors of Whites' Votes from the 2000 Election to the 2012 Election
February 27, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology, New York University. The election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States shocked many voters and most professional observers, but there were data to indicate the latent potential of such an outcome...

Stefanie Stantcheva: Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
February 13, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Stefanie Stantcheva, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Using newly collected cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in five...

Daron Acemoglu: Machine vs. Man: The Labor Market in the Age of Robots
February 6, 2017
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EST
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Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
In Person
Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT. This talk will contrast the labor market implications of "enabling technologies", which increase worker productivity in existing tasks or enable them to perform new tasks, and...