Seminar Series: Racial Stratification and Stress-Related Morbidity Among Older Americans (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar with Kyle Moore, Ph.D. Student at the New School and Resident Scholar at Equitable Growth. Moore presented new research investigating whether higher rates of both hypertension and inflammation among Black Americans can be explained through their higher exposure to psychosocial and economic stressors, and their limited access to economic resources. This research brings together research in epidemiology, public health, and racial stratification to understand the psychological and economic drivers of racial health disparities. Learn more about Kyle Moore and his research here.

This event was an installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC. A full recording of the event is available here.

For questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.

Seminar Series: Labor market impacts of universal and permanent cash transfers—evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar on Wednesday, November 28 lead by Damon Jones, associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, who presented new research on the labor market impact of unconditional and universal cash transfers. This research, which examines the effects of the Alaska Permanent Fund, can offer important insights relevant to ongoing debates around economic security and opportunity for U.S. families. The working paper is available here.

This event will be the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.

For questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.

Equitable Growth Reception, ASSA 2019

Please join the Washington Center for Equitable Growth for our reception during the ASSA Annual Meeting on Friday, January 4, 2019, from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. for complimentary food and drinks during the 2019 ASSA Annual Meeting.

The reception is a chance to connect with other scholars, Equitable Growth staff and its academic advisors, as well as to learn about our research, grantmaking, academic programming, and policy engagement. The reception will include complimentary hors d’oeuvres and drinks.

We are grateful to the Hewlett Foundation’s “Rethinking Political Economy” initiative for generously sponsoring the reception.

Please RSVP. Friends and colleagues welcome.

For any questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org or 202-792-6346.

Seminar Series: Are Immigrants Returning to Their Country of Origin Because They’re Earning Less? (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar on Wednesday, November 28 lead by Randall Akee, Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. Akee presented new research suggesting that immigrants’ decisions to return to their countries of origin may be related to downward earnings mobility. Using novel panel data of recent immigrants to the United States in 2005-2007—data drawn from U.S. Census data linked at the individual level to IRS administrative records—Akee identifies the determinants of return migration and earnings growth for this immigrant arrival cohort.

This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.

For questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.

Building a New Consensus on Antitrust Reform

Watch a livestream of the event below:

Please join the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on Wednesday, November 14, at noon for a conversation on reforming federal antitrust law.

Competition protects consumers, fosters innovation, increases wages, and spurs entrepreneurship. Antitrust laws are the primary tool to prevent the accumulation and exploitation of monopoly power in the marketplace. There is substantial concern that U.S. antitrust laws and their enforcement are failing to protect competitive markets, and that the resulting increase in monopoly power is harming consumers, workers, and the dynamism of the overall economy. This event will focus on issues that policymakers should consider in assessing potential reforms to antitrust laws and enforcement.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, will deliver keynote remarks. A panel of prominent experts in antitrust law and policy will discuss areas of agreement and disagreement on the broad principles of reform.

RSVP is required by Friday, November 9.

Registration opens at 11:30 a.m., and the event will begin promptly at noon. Lunch will be provided. Event is designed to meet Senate and House ethics guidelines as a widely attended event.

For any questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. One of our flagship programs is our work on competition policy and market concentration, which seeks to understand the causes and impact of increasing market power and to develop policy proposals that can strengthen competition.

Connecting the Dots Between Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility

This event is part of Equitable Growth’s initiative to better understand the relationship between poverty, economic inequality, and the American Dream. Equality of opportunity endures as a foundational principle for the United States, but what do historically high levels of inequality mean for opportunity and mobility? This convening will gather some of the nation’s sharpest thinkers to hash out a framework for making sense of what we know—and what we need to know—in order to better understand the relationship between these two defining concepts. Our goal for this work over time is to grow the research base on the relationship between inequality and mobility in order to develop evidence-backed policy frameworks for decisionmakers who seek to promote multigenerational economic well-being.

Click here for the agenda and list of registrants.

Research on Tap: Economic mobility—The impact of race and place

On September 26, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host leading academics, policymakers, and advocates for a conversation about the relationship between today’s inequalities and tomorrow’s opportunities. The discussion aims to highlight how place-based disparities and structural barriers based on race shape economic outcomes in the United States and how policies must respond to the range of factors impacting economic mobility. In particular, discussion will focus on the following questions: What does the growing body of scholarship on the relationship between economic inequality and economic mobility tell us about how to think about policy interventions aimed at reinvigorating the promise of the American Dream? In particular, what are the place-based inequalities that play a role in shaping opportunities for the next generation? And how should we be thinking about the ways in which these effects vary across racial groups?

The event will kick off our 2018 Grantee Conference and will feature Equitable Growth grantees:

Kimberly Adams, a senior reporter at Marketplacewill moderate.

The event is open to the public. Please RSVP to attend.

If you have any questions, please reach out to events@equitablegrowth.org.

Equitable Growth Grantee Conference 2018

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host its second grantee conference on Thursday, September 27, in Washington, D.C. The conference will feature formal and informal conversations about the latest research investigating the various channels through which economic inequality may or may not impact economic growth and stability. It will comprise four sessions with invited Equitable Growth grantees presenting works-in-progress, with time during each session for discussion and engagement with all attendees. Each presentation will include an assigned discussant who is also a grantee or member of Equitable Growth’s Steering Committee or Research Advisory Board. The conference will close with a private dinner.

Click here for the conference agenda and list of registrants.

List of featured participants:

Randy Albelda, Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston

Heather Boushey, Executive Director and Chief Economist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of Social Sciences, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Austin Clemens, Computational Social Scientist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Manasi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Jonathan Fisher, Research Scholar, Stanford University

Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Bradley Hardy, Associate Professor, American University

David Howell, Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Doctoral Program in Public and Urban Policy, The New School

Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Suresh Naidu, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University

Jacob Robbins, Ph.D. candidate in economics, Brown University

Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley

Claudia Sahm, Chief, Consumer and Community Development Research Section, Federal Reserve Board

Heather Sarsons, Ph.D. candidate in economics, Harvard University

Danny Yagan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley

Abigail Wozniak, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

Seminar Series: Do TRAP Laws Trap Women into Bad Jobs? (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar lead by Economist Kate Bahn on Tuesday, July 31. Bahn presented new research on the impact of women’s access to reproductive health care on labor market opportunities in the United States. The presentation reviewed past evidence of the impact of state-imposed health care restrictions on women’s career choices and economic wellbeing, and examine how current state-level variations in access to abortions and contraception, such as TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion providers) laws, impact occupational mobility in the Current Population Survey’s Merged Outgoing Rotation Group. 

This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.

For questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.

Seminar Series: Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Heidi Williams, Associate Professor of Economics at MIT, on Wednesday, June 20. Williams presented new research that investigates the link between firm performance and worker compensation induced by the decision to grant patents. The analysis uses a new linked dataset of U.S. patent applications to U.S. business and worker tax records to explore the effect of patent allowances on employment, and on the earnings of different types of workers within a firm. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here.

This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It will be hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.

For questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.