Work, Families, and Public Policy is a biweekly brown bag series featuring topics related to labor, households, health care, law, and social welfare.

Seminars are held 12:00-1:00 pm in Seigle Hall, Room 348, at Washington University, unless noted otherwise. Discussion extends to 1:30 for those interested.

January 23, 2012
Kelly Bishop, Washington University in St. Louis, "Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products without Instrumental Variables" 

February 6, 2012
Donna Ginther, University of Kansas, "The Diversity of NIH Research Awardees in Academic Medicine"

February 20, 2012
Maria Canon, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, "The Role of Schools in the Production of Achievement"

March 5, 2012
V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University, "The Family that Shares is the Family the Cares: Are Extended Families Efficient in their Sharing?"

March 19, 2012
Duncan Thomas, Duke University, "Decision-Making by Households and Families"

April 2, 2012
Kim Krawiec, Duke University School of Law, "Kidneys Without Contracts: The Legal And Ethical Implications of NEAD Chain Bridge Donor Contracts" 

April 16, 2012
Sandra Black, University of Texas, "Does Money Matter? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Academic Performance"

The seminar series is sponsored by the Olin Business School, the Brown School, the Center for Social Development, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the School of Law, the Center for Health Policy, the Department of Economics, and the College of Arts and Sciences.