SEMINAR

Malcolm Wiener Center
Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series

Fall 2006

MONDAYS, NOON to 1:45 PM
Note: Presentation begins at 12:20 pm

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SEP 18, 2006

PAUL PETERSON, Government and Kennedy School of Government

"On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate"

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Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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SEP 25, 2006

CHARLES MURRAY, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

"Replacing the Welfare State with a Negative Income Tax on Steroids"

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Location: Taubman A-B (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 2, 2006

WILLIAM T. BIELBY, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

"Title VII Class Actions and the Disaggregation Defense: Bad Law and Bad Statistics"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 16, 2006

JONAS PONTUSSON, Politics, Princeton University

"Political Consequences of Inequality in OECD Countries"

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Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 23, 2006

JEFF MANZA, Sociology, New YorkUniversity

“Felon Disenfranchisement and Political Inequality”

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Location: Taubman A-B (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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OCT 30, 2006

STEPHEN MACHIN, Economics, University College London and London School of Economics

"Choice, Competition and Incentives in English Education”

Location: Bell Hall (5th FL, Belfer Center), Kennedy School of Govt.

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NOV 6, 2006

MARY PATTILLO, Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University

"Black Gentrification: Lessons on Race, Class and Politics"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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NOV 13, 2006

JACQUELYNNE ECCLES, Psychology, University of Michigan

"Race, Racism and the Development of African American Adolescents"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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NOV 20, 2006

GEORGE BORJAS, Kennedy School of Government

“Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: the Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks”

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Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

 

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NOV 27, 2006

ESTHER DUFLO, Economics, MIT

"Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School"

Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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DEC 4, 2006

CHRISTOFFER GREEN-PEDERSEN, Political Science, University of Aarhus

“The Danish Welfare State in Times of Austerity: Successful Survival and the Politics of a Funded Pension System”

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Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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DEC 11, 2006

*THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

ROBERT MOFFITT, Economics, Johns Hopkins University

“Recent Trends in Welfare and Food Stamp Participation”

Location: CANCELLED

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DEC 18, 2006

MICHAEL JONES-CORREA, Government, Cornell University

"Pathways to Immigrant Political Incorporation in Suburbia”

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Location: Taubman Dining Room (5th FL), Kennedy School of Govt.

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