# Seminar: Spring 2018 [### Shelley J. Correll: Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment ](/event/shelley-correll-inside-black-box-organizational-life-gendered-language-performance?occ_id=0)January 29, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | Allison Dining Room In Person Shelley J. Correll, Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Organizational Behavior; and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. By Shelley J. Correll, Katherine R Weisshaar, Alison T. Wynn and... event [### Heather Ann Thompson: From Attica to MOVE: Why the 1970s and 1980s Matters to Criminal Justice Policy Making Today ](/event/heather-ann-thompson-tba-0?occ_id=0)February 5, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EST | Land Hall (Belfer 400) In Person Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan. From the story of how the Pentagon Papers came to be published, to that of the Watergate break-in or the explosion at Three Mile Island, the history of the 1970s and 1980s is quite... event [### Jessica Trounstine: Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities ](/event/jessica-trounstine-segregation-design-local-politics-and-inequality-american-cities?occ_id=0)February 12, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EST | Land Hall (Belfer 400) In Person Jessica Trounstine, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced. Jessica Trounstine will present several pieces from her next book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities, forthcoming from... event [### Maya Sen: Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics ](/event/maya-sen-deep-roots-how-slavery-still-shapes-southern-politics?occ_id=0)February 26, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EST | Land Hall (Belfer 400) In Person Maya Sen, Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Political scientist Maya Sen will present research from her forthcoming book, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, co-authored with Avidit Acharya (Stanford University) and Matthew... event [### Frank Dobbin: Do Anti-Harassment Programs Reduce Harassment? Evidence from the Workplace ](/event/frank-dobbin-do-anti-harassment-programs-reduce-harassment-evidence-workplace?occ_id=0)March 5, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EST | Land Lecture Hall (Belfer 400) In Person Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. In twin 1998 decisions, the Supreme Court supported anti-harassment training and harassment grievance procedures. Corporations embraced both programs, but surveys suggest that workplace harassment... event [### PIER seminar: Susanna Loeb, Engaging Teachers: Measuring the Impact of Teachers on Student Attendance in Secondary School ](/event/pier-seminar-susanna-loeb-tba?occ_id=0)March 6, 2018 | 4:15PM - 5:15PM EST | HGSE Larsen Hall 106 (updated) In Person Susanna Loeb, Barnett Family Professor of Education and Faculty Director of CEPA Labs, Stanford University. Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Seminar Series, Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Harvard... event [### Anthony Abraham Jack: 'I, too, Am Hungry": Structural Exclusion at an Elite University ](/event/anthony-abraham-jack-i-too-am-hungry-structural-exclusion-elite-university?occ_id=0)March 19, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EDT | Land Hall (B-400) In Person Anthony Abraham Jack, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Shutzer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Through major financial aid... event [### Nathaniel Hendren: Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective ](/event/nathaniel-hendren-race-and-economic-opportunity-america-new-evidence?occ_id=0)March 26, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EDT | Land Hall (B-400) In Person Nathaniel Hendren, Professor of Economics, Harvard University. We study the sources of racial and ethnic disparities in income using de-identified longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population from 1989-2015. We document three sets of... event [### Jennifer S. Lerner: Emotion, addiction, and money: Under-explored pathways to poverty ](/event/jennifer-s-lerner-mapping-systematic-effects-emotion-decision-making-implications?occ_id=0)April 2, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | NOTE CHANGE: Moved to Allison Dining Room (T-520) In Person Jennifer S. Lerner, Professor of Public Policy and Decision Science, Harvard Kennedy School. Co-founder of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory. Recent research on emotion has revealed that specific emotions are potent, pervasive, and predictable... event [### Arne L. Kalleberg: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies ](/event/arne-l-kalleberg-tba?occ_id=0)April 9, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EDT | Land Hall (Belfer 400) In Person Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sociologist Arne Kalleberg will be talking about his newest book, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies, forthcoming... event [### John N. Friedman: Using Big Data to Improve Children's Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Higher Education ](/event/john-n-friedman-equality-opportunity-america-new-evidence-big-data?occ_id=0)April 16, 2018 | 12:15PM - 1:30PM EDT | Land Hall (B-400) In Person John N. Friedman, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University. Abstract. Researchers have proposed many policies to address dramatic gaps in long-term economic outcomes across children from different backgrounds, but most such suggestions typically... event [### Marianne Bertrand: Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States Over Time ](/event/marianne-bertrand-coming-apart-lives-rich-and-poor-over-time?occ_id=0)April 23, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race, and... event [### Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Politics at Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists ](/event/alexander-hertel-fernandez-politics-work-how-companies-turn-their-workers-lobbyists?occ_id=0)April 30, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room In Person Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Join us for a discussion with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez about his new book... event [### Gabriel Zucman: The Missing Profits of Nations ](/event/gabriel-zucman-tba?occ_id=0)May 7, 2018 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Allison Dining Room (T-520) In Person Gabriel Zucman, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley By exploiting new macroeconomic data published by tax havens in a systematic manner, we estimate that 40% of the global profits of multinational companies are artificially shifted to low-tax... event