WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Fall 2013
- September 9
Derek Neal, University of Chicago, “Designing Accountability Systems and Incentives Schemes for Educators.” - September 23
Carl Sanders, Washington University, “Decomposing the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap in the United States.” - October 7
Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School, “The Demography of Marital Decline: Economics, Culture, or Something Else?” - October 21
Juan Pantano, Washington University, “Treatment Choice Dynamics with Insurance Mandates: The Case of IVF.” - November 4
Barton Hamilton, Washington University, “Personality and Entrepreneurship.” - November 18
Nava Ashraf, Harvard Business School, “Contraceptive Access, IntraHousehold Bargaining, and Fertility: A Field Experiment.” - December 2
Kathryn Edin, Kennedy School, Harvard University, “The EITC and Dignity or the Working Poor.”
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.