Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through November.
Now in its eighth year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series features one-hour presentations on research interests of faculty from local and national universities.
Presentations will be from noon-1 p.m. in Eliot Hall, Room 300, and will be followed by a half-hour discussion period.
Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and the Olin School of Business, has been the lead organizer of the series for the past seven years.
The co-organizer is Michael W. Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and director of the Center for Social Development in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
The series is designed to promote interdisciplinary research. The presentations are listed below.
• Sept. 20: Janet Currie, Ph.D., professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss “Socio-Economic Status and Intergenerational Correlations in Birth Weight.”
• Oct. 4: Pollak will speak on “Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Spouses, Children, and Stepchildren.”
• Oct. 18: Jeff Milyo, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri, will focus on “The Causes and Consequences of Social Capital.”
• Nov. 1: Mary Anne Case, J.D., the Arnold I. Shure Pro-fessor of Law at the University of Chicago, will discuss “The Role of the State in Marriage and the Corporation.”
• Nov. 15: Peter A. Diamond, Ph.D., the Institute Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will focus on “Saving Social Security.”
• Nov. 29: Richard Frank, Ph.D., the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard University Medical School, will speak on “Mental Illness, Substance Abuse and Welfare Reform.”
The series is sponsored by the Olin School, GWB and the Center for Social Development, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Law, the Department of Economics, the Center for Health Policy and the College of Arts & Sciences.
The classroom is courtesy of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy in Arts & Sciences.
For more information, go online to www.olin.wustl.edu/links and click on the “Academic Seminars” link on the right.
For additional information, contact Pollak (935-4918; pollak@wustl.edu) or Sherraden (935-6691; sherrad@wustl.edu).