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W e l c o m e. . .
Welcome to our web site for the Inequality Summer Institute 1999, a workshop of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy.
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Wednesday, June 23
| 8:30 to
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 to
10:30 AM |
I. INEQUALITY, POLITICS, & SOCIAL COHESION
William Julius Wilson
Harvard University
"Inequality and Racial Antagonisms" |
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Jennifer Hochschild
Princeton University
"Race Relations in a Diversifying Nation" |
| 10:45 to
12:15 PM |
Robert B. Reich
Brandeis University
"The Political Paradox of Inequality" |
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John D. Stephens
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Causes of Welfare State Retrenchment" (Joint with Evelyne Huber) |
| 12:30 to
1:30 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:30 to
3:00 PM |
II. WHO GETS AHEAD, WHO GETS BEHIND, AND WHAT DIFFERENCE IT MAKES
Peter Gottschalk
Boston College
"Changes in Inequality Among Recent Labor Market Entrants: the Role of the Rising Skill Intensity of Females" (Joint with Steve Pizer, Abt Associates) |
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George Borjas
Harvard University
"Wage Structure and Self-Employment" |
| 3:15 to
4:45 PM |
Barbara Reskin
Harvard University
"Bad Jobs in America" (Joint with Arne L. Kalleberg and Ken Hudson, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
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Katherine S. Newman
Harvard University
"In the Long Run: Career Patterns and Cultural Values in the Low-Wage Labor Force" |
| 5:00 PM |
Reception and barbecue in Kennedy School Courtyard |
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| 8:30 to
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 to
11:15 AM |
III. WELFARE REFORM / CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT
Sheldon Danziger
University of Michigan
"Is Welfare Reform Working?" |
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Lawrence M. Mead
New York University
"Statecraft: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Wisconsin" |
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R. Kent Weaver
The Brookings Institution
"The Politics of Policy Research in Welfare Reform Debates" |
| 11:30 to
12:15 PM |
Christopher Winship
Harvard University
"Ten Point Coalition's Effect on Youth Violence" |
| 12:30 to
1:30 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:30 to
3:00 PM |
IV. INEQUALITY AND EDUCATION
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Columbia University
"Poverty and School Readiness" |
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Susan Mayer
University of Chicago
"Economic Inequality, Economic Segregation, and Children's Educational Attainment?" |
| 3:15 to
4:45 PM |
Paul E. Peterson
Harvard University
"Effects of School Choice on the School Experience of Low-Income Families in New York" (Joint with William G. Howell, Harvard University) |
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Richard Murnane
Harvard University
"Who Benefits from a GED?" (Joint with John B. Willett, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and John H. Tyler, Brown University) |
| Dinner |
Open—Small group dinners with the National Fellows and Doctoral Fellows of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy |
| 8:30 to
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00 to
11:30 AM
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V. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES
Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin
Harvard University
"Why the US Led in Education: Lessons from Secondary Schools" |
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Thomas Kane
Harvard University
"The Future of Higher Education in the US: Access and Financing" |
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Brent B. Coffin
Harvard Divinity School
"Charitable Choice: Faith-based Organizations Furthering or Countering Inequality?" |
11:15 to
1:15 PM
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VI. ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SKILL
IN CHANGING WAGE INEQUALITY
Ron Ferguson
Harvard University
"Demands for Quality and Returns to Skill" (Joint with John Ballantine, Harvard University) |
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Roberto Fernandez
Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality" |
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Frank Levy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Computerization and Less-Educated Workers" |
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