WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Spring 2011
- January 24
Juan Pantano, Washington University, “C-Sections and Fertility.” - February 7
Mariagiovanna Baccara, Washington University, “Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences on Gender and Race.” - February 21
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, “Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in Brawn-Based Economy.” - March 7
Nichols Papageorge, Washington University, “AIDS, Pharmaceutical Innovation and Employment Decisions.” - March 21
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago, “The Role of Parental Inputs in the Gender-Gap in Non-Cognitive Skills.” - April 18
Terra McKinnish, University of Colorado, “Within-Couple Age Differences and Sorting Earnings.”
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.