WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Fall 2020
- September 21 Albertina Antognini, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, “Nonmarital Contracts”
- October 5 Ian Fillmore, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Effects of Federal Grants on Student Outcomes”
- October 19 Stefanie DeLuca, The Johns Hopkins University, “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice”
- November 2 Larry Katz, Harvard University, “Why Do Sectoral Employment Training Programs Work?”
- November 16 Sanghmitra Gautam, Washington University in St. Louis, “Female Inheritance Rights in India: The Impact of the Hindu Succession Act on Intra-Household Welfare”
- November 30 Bart Hamilton, Washington University in St. Louis, “Social Determinants of Health and the Value of Medical Innovation”
- December 14 Daron Acemoglu, MIT, “Task Displacement and US Inequality”
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: Zoom Virtual Meeting Room
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 Olin Business School, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the Center for Social Development, the Department of Economics, and the College of Arts and Sciences.