Event
Andrea Mitchell Center Annual Conference: Reverberations of Inequality
3501 Sansom Street
Join us for the opening conference of the Mitchell Center 2019-20 theme year, REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY. Inequality has emerged as a key political issue. But more than that, there are signs that inequality harms health, diminishes political engagement, and ripples across social life throughout the world. Lunch will be provided.
SCHEDULE:
Panel 1 - HEALTH AND INEQUALITY (9 A.M. - 10:40 A.M.)
Chloe E. Bird, Rand Corporation
Elaine Hernandez, Indiana University Bloomington
Bruce Link, University of California, Riverside
Panel 2 - BARRIERS TO MOBILITY (11 A.M. - 12:40 A.M.)
Samuel Friedman, London School of Economics
Michael Kraus, Yale University
Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keynote Address - IMPROVING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA: NEW INSIGHTS FROM BIG DATA (1:30 P.M. - 3 P.M.)
Raj Chetty, Harvard University
Panel 3 - POLICY RESPONSES TO INEQUALITY (3:20 P.M. - 5 P.M.)
David Daley, Activist and author of Ratf
Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan
Brishen Rogers, Georgetown Law
RECEPTION (5 - 6 P.M.)