WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Fall 2014
- September 8
Robert A. Pollak, Washington University, “Cohabitation, Marriage, and Investment in Children.” - September 22
Maria Canon, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, “Wage Dynamics and Labor Market Transitions: A Reassessment through Total Income and ‘Usual’ Wages.” - October 6
Robert Mara, UCLA, “Immigrant Segregation and Assortative Mating in Stockholm Neighborhoods.” - October 20
Laura T. Kessler, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, “Toward a Holistic Approach to Employment Discrimination: The Case of Workers with Caregiver Responsibilities.” - November 3
Dora Costa, UCLA, “Disease and the Media: Evidence from the Health Transition.” - November 17
Geoge-Levi Gayle, Washington University, “Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Divorce, an Family Labor Supply.” - December 1
V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University, “Financing College Education How did Families Respond to the Great Recession.”
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.