Thank you all for making the time to join us for this year’s Inequality in America symposium. I’m Claudine Gay, the Edgerley Family Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. And I’m thrilled to be the official host. But the real attraction will be the scholars who are going to be joining us and sharing their work….Continue Reading 3rd Dean’s Symposium: Inequality in America
My guest today is Claudia Goldin. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics in the Economics Department and is the author of a major new book from Princeton University Press entitled Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 3: Claudia Goldin
My guests are Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and together they’ve written a fascinating new book entitled Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation. This is really an exciting piece of work….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 2: Edward Glaeser & David Cutler
This afternoon’s topic is fighting truth decay. I very much suspect all of us have witnessed a level of contestation over scientific claims, even sometimes observations of seemingly obvious facts, or as is now emerged, ‘alternative facts’, that literally bewildering….Continue Reading 2nd Dean’s Symposium: Truth Decay
My guest today is David Pedulla, a professor of sociology and of public policy, and a relatively new arrival here to Cambridge. We will be talking about his latest book Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 1: David Pedulla
This session is on big data: opportunities, contributions, challenges, and limitations, an arena in which several of our departments are actively engaged in cutting edge scholarship and development….Continue Reading 1st Dean’s Symposium: Big Data
