Faculty and graduate students from 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 December.
Now in its ninth 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.
The series, designed to promote interdisciplinary research, began Sept. 12 with a talk by Glenn Loury, Ph.D., University Professor and professor of economics at Boston University, on “Toward an Economic Theory of Dysfunctional Identity.”
Remaining presentations are listed below.
• Sept. 26: Jonathan Skinner, Ph.D., the John French Professor of Economics and professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth College, will address “Are You Saving Enough for Retirement?”
• Oct. 10: Amy Wax, J.D, M.D., professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, will discuss “Is the Family Friendly Workplace Possible? Computer Simulations Using a Game Theoretic Model.”
• Oct. 24: Claudia Goldin, Ph.D., the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will focus on “The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Higher Education.”
• Nov. 7: Donald Cox, Ph.D., professor of economics at Boston College, will speak on “Biological Basics and Intergenerational Transfers.”
• Nov. 21: Barton Hamilton, Ph.D., the Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Olin School of Business, will discuss “Diversity and Productivity in Production Teams.”
• Dec. 5: Anne E. Winkler, Ph.D., professor of economics and public policy administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will speak on “Teen Employment: Shifting Patterns by Parental Education and Family Structure.”
The series is sponsored by the Olin School, the Center for Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Law, the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences, the Center for Health Policy and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and in the Olin School, has been the lead organizer of the series for the past eight 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.
For more information, go on-line to www.olin.wustl.edu/links and click on the “Academic Seminars” link on the right-hand side.
For additional information, contact Pollak (935-4918; pollak@wustl.edu) or Sherraden (935-6691; sherrad@wustl.edu).