Seminar Series: Fatal Overdoses – Deaths of Despair or Drug Problems? (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Christopher Ruhm, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia, for a seminar on the extent to which increases in county-level drug mortality rates from 1999 to 2015 are due to “deaths of despair,” characterized by a deterio…
Seminar Series: Platforms and Commerce (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Lina Khan, Director of Legal Policy for Citizens Against Monopoly and associate research scholar at Yale Law School, for a seminar on the anti-competitive challenges posed by dominant platforms. If you would like to read one of the papers presented,…
Seminar Series: Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Neil Mehrotra, an assistant professor of economics at Brown University, for a seminar on the consequences of increased public debt. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here. This event was the latest installment of our monthly academ…
Seminar Series: Recognition for Group Work (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Heather Sarsons, PhD candidate in economics at Harvard University and doctoral fellow in the Inequality and Social Policy program, for a seminar on whether co-authored and solo-authored publications matter differently for tenure for men and women. If…
Seminar Series: Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Sandra Black, professor of economics and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a seminar on the transmission of wealth fr…
Seminar Series: Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Manasi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, for a seminar on how application costs affect selection into disability programs. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here. This event was the latest in…
Seminar Series: Parenthood and the gender wage gap (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Marta Murray-Close, a Research Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, for a seminar on how much parenthood contributes to the gender wage gap. This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important…
Seminar Series: Stratification Economics—A General Theory of Intergroup Inequality (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted William Darity, the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, for a seminar on the emerging field of stratification economics. This event was the latest installment of our m…
Seminar Series: Unequal Opportunity, Unequal Growth (Invitation Only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Roy Van der Weide, an economist on the Poverty and Inequality Research team within the Development Research Group of the World Bank, for a seminar on how inequality can be both good and bad for growth, depending on different measures and outcomes. If…
Seminar Series: Inequality in 3D—Income, Consumption, and Wealth (Invitation Only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted David Johnson, Deputy Director of PSID and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, for a seminar on measuring economic well-being and inequality in multiple dimensions using income, consumption, and wealth. If you would like to read…