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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 Marketplace, will 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.

Seminar Series: Unions and Inequality Over the 20th Century—New Evidence from Survey Data

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Suresh Naidu, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics at Columbia University, on Wednesday, April 18. Naidu presented findings from an analysis of a new source of data on the effect of unions on economic inequality from 1936 to the present.

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 Nisha Chikhale at nchikhale@equitablegrowth.org.

Research on Tap: Gender wage inequality

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host it’s next installment of its “Research on Tap” conversation series—a space for drinks, dialogue, and debate. The event will feature leading academics, policymakers, and advocates for a conversation about the causes and economic consequences of gender pay inequality—for individuals, families, and the broader U.S. economy.

The discussion will focus on questions at the intersection of gender pay equity and broadly shared economic growth:

  • What do we know about the causes of gender wage inequality?
  • How does pay inequality affect the broader economy, and how do those effects vary across demographic groups?
  • What is the range of public policy solutions that policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels can use to address the multiple drivers of gender pay inequality?

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

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

The impact of scheduling practices: a case study of the Gap

Are unstable schedules for retail employees necessary for stores to be profitable? Or can stable schedules for employees not only improve quality of life but also improve business outcomes?

The authors of the Stable Scheduling Study presented the exciting results of their multi-year effort to look at the impact of scheduling policies on the Gap’s business and its employees. The work was funded in part by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

The recording of the event can be found here.

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

 

Seminar Series: Inequality in Mortality—A Comparison of the U.S., Canada, and France (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, as well as an Equitable Growth Steering Committee member, for a seminar on Thursday, March 15. Currie will present a cross-country comparison of the disparities in mortality rates, as well as evolving trends among different sub-populations in the United States, Canada, and France.

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 will be hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.

For questions, please contact Nisha Chikhale at nchikhale@equitablegrowth.org.

 

Seminar Series: Structural Presumption and Safe Harbor in Merger Review (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted John Kwoka, the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, for a seminar on Thursday, February 22.

Antitrust practices in the United States have undergone dramatic changes over the past 30 to 40 years. The seminar explored the impact of recent merger enforcement policy on competition. Combining data on merger enforcement results and market concentration, Kwoka will present systematic evidence to support the importance of legal presumptions based on market structure in merger enforcement policy. You can read an earlier version of the paper here (SSRN subscription required).

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 Nisha Chikhale at nchikhale@equitablegrowth.org.

Seminar Series: The Evolution of Charter School Quality (Invitation only)

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Marcus Casey, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a seminar On Wednesday, January 24. The seminar explored the impact of recent government measures on the effectiveness of charter schools over time relative to traditional public schools.

This event was 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 Nisha Chikhale at nchikhale@equitablegrowth.org.