WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Spring 2020
- February 3 Limor Golan, Washington University in St. Louis, “What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital.”
- February 17
Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago, Booth, “The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value Added and Match Effects in Higher Education.”
- March 2 Andrew Gray, Washington University in St. Louis, “Statistical Discrimination and Female Employment: The Revealing Effects of Child Care Subsidies.”
- March 16 Stefanie Deluca, The Johns Hopkins University, “Coming of Age in the Other America.”
- March 30 Tonya Brito, University of Wisconsin Law School, “Litigating Poverty.”
- April 13 Sanghmitra Gautam, Washington University in St. Louis, “Female Inheritance Rights in India: The Impact of the Hindu Succession Act on Intra-Household Welfare.”
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.