WORK, FAMILIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series
Topics Relating to Labor, Households, Health Care, Law and Social Welfare
Spring 2016
- January 25
Carl Sanders, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Dimensionality of Worker Skills.” - February 8
Carl Magnus Bjuggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, “Employment Protection and Labor Productivity.” - February 22
Ann Aizer, Brown University, “Early Childhood Exposure to Lead and Juvenile Crime.” - March 7
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, “Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structures.” - March 21
Barton Hamilton, Washington University, “Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatments.” - April 4
Thomas W. Mitchell, University of Wisconsin Law School, “Stemming Land Loss and Unlocking Wealth for Disadvantaged Heirs’ Property Owners.” - April 16
Angela Lee Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania, “Building Strategic Self-Control.”
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.