WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Fall 2012
- September 10
Nancy Staudt, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, “Is Gender Based Policymaking Necessary in the 21st Century.” - September 24
Juan Pantano, Washington University, “An Empirical Model of Family Balancing.” - October 8
Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Columbia University, “Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market.” - October 22
Shelly Lundberg, University of California Santa Barbara, “Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Labor Supply of Adult Children.” - November 5
Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland, “House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision of Have a Baby.” - November 19
Robert A. Pollak, Washington University, “Marital Formation and Disruption.” - December 3
George-Levi Gayle, Washington University, “Life-Cycle Fertility and Human Capital Accumulation.”
Faculty members and graduate students from Washington University, the University of Missouri, Saint Louis University and other area universities, are invited to participate.
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 PM, with discussion extending to 1:30 p.m., for those interested.
Place: Seigle Hall, Room 348, at Washington University.
For more information, contact:
- Bob Pollak, at (314) 935-4918, email: pollak@wustl.edu or
- Michael Sherraden, at (314) 935-6691, email: sherrad@wustl.edu
Sponsored by:
The Wells Fargo Advisory Center for Finance and Accounting Research in the Olin Business School, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the Center for Social Development, the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital in the School of Law; the Department of Economics, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Room courtesy of the Economics Department. Coffee and soft drinks will be provided.