Brown Bag Seminar Series Featured Event Events 2025

Spring 2025 Seminar Series

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.

Spring 2025

  • January 27                                                                                                                                                               Karen Joynt Maddox, Washington University in St. Louis, “Can Medicare Payment Policy Reduce Health Inequities?”
  • February 17                                                                                                                                                              Philipp Gruebener, Washington University in St. Louis, “Spousal Insurance Around the World”
  • March 3                                                                                                                                                                 Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University, “Business Organization Forms and Taxation of High Income Professionals”
  • March 17                                                                                                                                                                 Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University, “The Effects of Cousin Marriage on Gender Attitudes”
  • March 31                                                                                                                                                                Robert A. Miller, Carnegie Mellon University, “Optimal Long-Term Executive Contracts”
  • April 14                                                                                                                                                                Cecelia Diaz-Campo, Washington University in St. Louis, “Physician Location and Training after Dobbs”
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.

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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.