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Harvard University
June 17-18, 2004

 

W e l c o m e. . .
Welcome to our web site for the Inequality Summer Institute 2004, a workshop of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy. 

The 2004 program celebrated the formation of the Harvard European Network on Inequality (ENI) with a special emphasis on social policy research from a comparative European perspective. Twenty European colleagues, representing the 13 ENI institutions, joined their U.S. counterparts to explore such as race, diversity, and community; neighborhood effects; assets over the life cycle; poverty; political institutions; earnings inequality; and intergenerational mobility in different national contexts.

Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger at the Inequality Summer Institute 2004.

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A g e n d a
Thursday, June 17
 
8:30-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast: 
Taubman Dining Room (5th Fl)
9:00-10:45 AM RACE, DIVERSITY, INEQUALITY, AND COMMUNITY
Chair: Robert J. Sampson (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
Robert Putnam (Department of Government and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"Diversity, Inequality, and Community"

Discussant:Christoffer Green-Pedersen (Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus)
William Julius Wilson (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"The Roots of Racial Tensions"

Discussant:Patrick Le Galès (Centre d'Etudes de la Vie Politique Française (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po, Paris)
11:00-12:30 PM NEIGHBORHOODS, POVERTY, AND OUTCOMES
Chair: Robert D. Putnam (Department of Government and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

Lawrence Katz (Department of Economics, Harvard University)
"Do Neighborhoods Matter for Low-Income Families? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment."
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Discussant: John Van Reenen (Centre for Economic Performance & Economics Department, London School of Economics)
Ruth Lupton (Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics)
"High Poverty Neighborhoods in Britain: What's Changed in the 1990s?"
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Discussant: Robert J. Sampson (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
12:30-1:45 PM  Lunch: Taubman 5th Floor balcony
1:45-3:15 PM ASSETS OVER THE LIFE CYCLE
Chair: Christopher Winship (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
Juan Rafael Morillas (CentrA: Fundacion Centro de Estudios Andaluces)
"The Effects of Wealth Inequality: Assets, Life Chances, and the Black-White Wage Mobility Gap"

Discussant: Harry J. Holzer (Public Policy, Georgetown University)
R. Kent Weaver (Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University and The Brookings Institution)
“Lashed to the Mast?: The Politics of Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems.”
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Discussant: Chris De Neubourg (Department of Economics, University of Maastricht)
3:30-5:00 PM CONCEPTUALIZING POVERTY
Chair:  David Ellwood (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Tone Fløtten (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo)
”Poverty and Social Exclusion Among Young Norwegians: the Role of Consumption”
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Discussant: Katherine S. Newman (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

Mary Jo Bane (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
”A Global Perspective on Poverty”
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Discussant: Steffen Mau (Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen)
6:30 PM

THE 2004 ANNUAL GALBRAITH LECTURE AND DINNER
The Charles Pavilion of the Charles Hotel

Opening remarks:

John Kenneth Galbraith
Paul Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus


The 2004 Distinguished Galbraith Lecture:

Theda Skocpol
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology
"Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy"

With discussion by:

Professor Martin Rhodes
European University Institute, Florence


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Friday, June 18

8:30-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast:
Taubman Dining Room (5th Fl)
9:00-10:30 AM

POLITICS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INEQUALITY
Chair:  Christopher Jencks (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
  Stephan Leibfried and Herbert Obinger (Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen)
”The Impact of Federalism on the Development of the Welfare State, 1880-2000”
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Discussant: Torben Iversen (Department of Government, Harvard University)
  Paul Pierson (Department of Government, Harvard University)
”Abandoning the Middle: The Revealing Case of the Bush Tax Cut of 2001” 
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Discussant: Bruno Palier (Centre d' Etudes de la Vie Politique Française (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po, Paris)
10:45-12:15 PM

Philip Manow (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne)
”The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Esping-Andersen’s Regime Typology and the Religious Roots of the Western Welfare State”
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Discussant: John D. Stephens (Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  Peter Skogman Thoursie (FIEF, Stockholm and Department of Economics, University of Stockholm)
”Changing Personal Names: Discrimination or Assimilation?”
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Discussant: Claudia Goldin (Department of Economics, Harvard University)
12:15-1:45 PM Lunch: Taubman 5th floor balcony
1:45-3:15 PM WORK, WAGES, AND US POLICY
Chair:  Lawrence M. Mead (Department of Politics, New York University)
  Rebecca Blank and Jordan Matsudaira (Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
”The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low-Income Families”
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Discussant: Jacint Jordana (Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  Peter Gottschalk (Department of Economics, Boston College) and Sheldon Danziger (Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
”Earnings Inequality and Poverty Over the Past Quarter Century”
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Discussant: Colm Harmon (Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) and Economics Department, University College Dublin)
3:30-5:00 PM INEQUALITY AND MOBILITY ACROSS GENERATIONS
Chair:  Katherine Newman (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
  Louis Chauvel (l’Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE) and l’Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC), Sciences Po, Paris)
”On Changing France: Social Generations, Life Chances and Welfare Regime Sustainability”
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Discussant: Michèle Lamont (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
  Kevin Denny (Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) and Economics Department, University College Dublin)
”A Multi-country Study of Intergenerational Educational Mobility”
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Discussant: Christopher Jencks (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

 
 

 

 

 

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