Faculty members and graduate students from WUSTL and other institutions will participate in the “Work, Families and Public Policy” seminar series, discussing topics related to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare.
The biweekly, brown-bag Monday luncheon series, now in its 11th year, is designed to promote interdisciplinary research, and features presentations by faculty from local and national universities and organizations. These presentations will be from noon -1 p.m. in Eliot Hall, Room 300, and will be followed by half-hour discussion periods.
The fall schedule is listed below.
• Sept. 11: David Laibson, Ph.D., professor of economics at Harvard University, will examine “Instant Gratification, Procrastination and Savings Policy.”
• Sept. 25: James Smith, Ph.D., economist at the RAND Corp., will discuss “Vignettes and Self-Reported Work Disability.”
• Oct. 9: Barton Hamilton, Ph.D., the Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Olin School of Business, will present “Using Expectations Data to Infer Managerial Objectives and Choices.”
• Oct. 23: Timothy Smeeding, Ph.D., the Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Administration at Syracuse University, will talk on “Income From Wealth and Income From Labor: The Rising Importance of Accumulated Wealth for Economic Well-Being.”
• Nov. 6: Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and in the Olin School of Business, will discuss “Time Use and Household Production.”
• Nov. 20: Elizabeth Scott, J.D., the Harold R. Medina Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, will explore “Social Welfare and Juvenile Justice Policy.”
• Dec. 4: Anne Winkler, Ph.D., professor of economics and public policy administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will discuss “Defining and Measuring Time Spent in Household Management: Implications for Forensic Economics.”
The series is sponsored by the Olin School of Business, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the Center for Social Development, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Law, the Center for Health Policy, the Department of Economics and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Pollak has served as lead organizer of the series since its inception. 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 Brown school.
For more information, go to olin.wustl.edu/links and click on the “Academic Seminars” link on the right, or contact Pollak at 935-4918 or pollak@wustl.edu, or Sherraden at 935-6691 or sherrad@wustl.edu.