Seminar Series: Structural Presumption and Safe Harbor in Merger Review (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted John Kwoka, the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, for a seminar on Thursday, February 22. Antitrust practices in the United States have undergone dramatic changes over the past 30 to 40 years. The semin…
Seminar Series: The Evolution of Charter School Quality (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Marcus Casey, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a seminar On Wednesday, January 24. The seminar explored the impact of recent government meas…
Seminar Series: Rise of Monopoly Power in the United States—Macroeconomic Implications (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Jacob Robbins, Ph.D. candidate in economics at Brown University and Junior Fellow at Equitable Growth, for a seminar exploring a number of important macroeconomic trends in the United States over the past forty years. Among these trends: the rise of…
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…
Future of Work and What We Can Do About It: Conversation with Tim O’Reilly
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What’s the outlook for workers in an economy increasingly dominated by intelligent machines and the global elites who own them? The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a discussion with tech entrepreneur and author Tim O’Reilly on the ideas presented in his newly published book, WTF?: What…
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…