By Ann Nicholson
Faculty and graduate students 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 during the spring semester.
Now in its fifth year, the "Work, Families and Public Policy" series features one-hour presentations on current research interests of faculty from across campus and from other universities. The presentations, held in Eliot Hall Room 300, run from noon to 1 p.m. and are followed by a half-hour discussion period.
Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and the Olin School of Business, and Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and director of the Center for Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, organize the series. The seminars are:
¥ Monday --Robert Willis, Ph.D., professor of economics at the University of Michigan, on "Cognition and Wealth: The Importance of Probabilistic Thinking";
¥ Feb. 12 --Margaret L. Brown, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, on "Compensating for Mistrust Among Kin";
¥ Feb. 26 --Greg J. Duncan, Ph.D., professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University, on "Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being";
¥ March 26 --Donna Ginther, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of economics in Arts & Sciences and a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, on "Career Attainments of Women in Science";
¥ April 9 --Timothy McBride, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at University of Missouri-St. Louis, on "If We Raise It Will They Come? The Failure of the Medicare+Choice Program"; and
¥ April 23 --Irwin Garfinkel, Ph.D., the Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems at Columbia University, on "Child Support and the New World of Welfare."
The series is sponsored by the schools of business and social work; the Center for Social Development; the Business, Law, and Economics Center; the Department of Economics; the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; and the Committee on Social Thought and Analysis. The room is provided courtesy of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy.
For more information, contact Pollak at 935-4918 (pollak@olin.wustl.edu) or Sherraden at 935-6691 (sherrad@gwbmail.wustl.edu).
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