WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Spring 2021
- February 8 Kevin Lang, Boston University, “The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers”
- February 22 James Heckman, University of Chicago, “Interaction as Investment”
- March 8 Marcella Alsan, Harvard University, “Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis”
- March 22 Courtney Joslin, University of California at Davis, “Partners But Not Partners”
- April 5 Sanghmitra Gautam, Washington University in St. Louis, “Female Inheritance Rights in India: The Impact of the Hindu Succession Act on Intra-Household Welfare”
- April 19 Robert A. Pollak, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses: Estimates Based on Real Couples and Synthetic Couples”
- May 3 George Gayle, Washington University in St. Louis, “Law Reforms, Matrimonial Regimes and Family Behaviour”
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 Passcode, 409877
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.