Welcome from Jeffrey Liebman
Director, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy

ROBERTO M. FERNANDEZ, MIT Sloan School of Management

"Race, Spatial Mismatch, and Job Accessibility: Evidence from a Plant Relocation"
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RACE AND INEQUALITY

Moderator: William Julius Wilson, John F. Kennedy School of Government

KIM WILLIAMS, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"Racial and Ethnic Succession Revisited: Blacks, Latinos, and the New Politics of Displacement"

LUNCHEON AND PH.D. POSTER SESSION
Taubman Dining Room

Featuring the research of:

• NAOMI CALVO, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy
  
  "How Parents Choose Schools: A Case Study of the Public School Choice Plan in Seattle"
  
  
• ANDREW FELDMAN, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy
  
  "Best Practices within Work-First Welfare: Evidence from New York City"
  
  
• DAN HOPKINS, Ph.D. candidate in Government
  
  "The Diversity Discount: How Ethnic and Racial Diversity Dampen Support for Tax Increases"
  
  
• KATERINA LINOS, Ph.D. candidate in Government and Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows (beginning July 2006)
  
  "Cross-National Learning in the Development of Family Policies"
  
  
• MELANIE PENNY, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy
  
  "Expanding the Traditional Model of Neighborhood Social Organization: Results from an Experimental Pre-test"
  :: View poster
  
  
• PATRICK SHARKEY , Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy
  
  "Neighborhood Mobility and Income Mobility"
  
  
• FRANCIS X. SHEN, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy
  
  "Rape and the Politics of Reaction"
  
  
• ADAM THOMAS, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy
  
  "The Old Ball and Chain: Unlocking the Correlation Between Incarceration and Marriage"
  
  
• VAN TRAN, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy
  
  "Uprooted or Transplanted: Are Today's Latino Immigrants Socially Well-Integrated?"
  
  
• JONG-SUNG YOU , Ph.D. in Public Policy (2006)
  Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD (beginning July 2006)
  
  "Correlates of Social Trust: Fairness Matters More Than Similarity"
  
  
  

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL WELFARE STATE POLICY

Moderator: Jeffrey Liebman, John F. Kennedy School of Government

ANTON HEMERIJCK, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy and Leiden University

"The Welfare State as an Evolutionary System:
How European Welfare States Learn"
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CATHIE JO MARTIN, Political Science, Boston University

"Reinventing Welfare Regimes: Employers and the Implementation of Active Social Policy"
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PHILIP MANOW, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

"Electoral Rules, Political Class Coalitions, Welfare Regimes And Sectoral Change: The De-Industrialization Thesis Re-Visited"

RECEPTION
Taubman ABC and Balcony (5th Fl)

Dinner for Faculty Participants
(Off-site) Hosted by Jeffrey Liebman

HEALTH AND INEQUALITY

Moderator: Julie Boatright Wilson, John F. Kennedy School of Government

ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Economics, Princeton University

"Education and Health"
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AMITABH CHANDRA, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"Geography and Racial Health Disparities"

NURTURE vs. NATURE

Moderator: Julie Boatright Wilson, John F. Kennedy School of Government

GARY SOLON, Economics, University of Michigan

"Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Success: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents" (Co-authored with Anders Björklund and Markus Jantti).
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DALTON CONLEY, Sociology and Wagner School of Public Policy, New York University

"Family Background and Race over the Life Course" (Co-authored with Rebecca Glauber).

Luncheon:
Taubman 5th Floor balcony

IMMIGRATION

Moderator: Christopher Jencks, John F. Kennedy School of Government

KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN, Political Science, University of California, Riverside

"The Receptivity and Responsiveness of City Governments to the Needs of Immigrants: Evidence from a 300-city Study in California" (Co-authored with Paul Lewis).
:: Paper will be available in hardcopy form for participants.

Departure