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 invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through April 30.
Now in its 11th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series features hourlong 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 half-hour discussion periods.
The series kicked off Jan. 22 with a presentation by Sebastian Galiani, Ph.D., associate professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, on “Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms.”
The series’ remaining presentations, listed below, are designed to promote interdisciplinary research.
• Feb. 5: Erik Hurst, Ph.D., professor of economics and the Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago, will discuss “Conspicuous Consumption and Race.”
• Feb. 19: Robert C. Ellickson, the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School, will present “Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth.”
• March 5: Tomas J. Philipson, Ph.D., professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and a member of the Department of Economics and the Law School at the University of Chicago, will examine “Innovation in Medical Products.”
• March 19: Tanika Chakraborty, graduate student, and Sukkoo Kim, Ph.D., associate professor, both in the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences, will discuss “Caste, Kinship and Sex-Ratios in India.”
• April 2: Ramesh Raghavan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and assistant professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine, will present “Medication Use Patterns Among Youth in the Child Welfare System.”
• April 16: Shelly Lundberg, Ph.D., the Castor Professor of Economics at the University of Washington, will speak about “Decision-making by the Children of the NLSY79 (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979).”
• April 30: Jere R. Behrman Ph.D., the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss “What Determines Adult Skills? Impacts of Pre-School, School-Years and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala.”
Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and in the John M. Olin School of Business, has been the 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 School of Social Work.
The series is sponsored by the business school; the social work school and the Center for Social Development; the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Law; the economics department; 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, visit olin.wustl.edu/links and click on the “Academic Seminars” drop-down menu on the right side, or contact Pollak (935-4918; pollak@wustl.edu) or Sherraden (935-6691; sherrad@wustl.edu).