WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
The Work, Families, and Public Policy seminar series provides opportunities for intellectual engagement with leading scholars on timely research related to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare.
Fall 2024
- September 16 Sarah Miller, University of Michigan, “Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income”
- September 30 Andrew Jordan, Washington University in St. Louis, “Patterns in Police Body-Worn Camera Activation”
- October 14 Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania, “Desired Fertility, Actual Fertility, and the Effects of China’s Universal Two Child Policy”
- October 28 Martin Garcia Vazquez, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Equilibrium Effects of State-Mandated Minimum Staff-to-Child Ratios”
- November 11 Sean Reardon, Stanford University, “Patterns and Causes of Academic Test Score Decline and Recovery During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- November 25 George Gayle, Washington University in St. Louis, “Life Cycle Fertility, Human Capital, and Family Policies: A Discrete-Continuous Choice Framework”
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
Funds for the workshop are provided by the Center for Research in Economics and Strategy (CRES) and administered by the Center for Social Development at the Brown School of Social Work.
The room, coffee, and cookies are courtesy of the Economics Department.