Dear RSF:

Please join us next Wednesday, February 20, for a presentation by Bradley Hardy entitled “Historical Segregation and Contemporary Social Mobility.”

Dr. Hardy is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University, where he has been since 2011.   His research interests lie within labor economics, with an emphasis on economic instability, intergenerational mobility, poverty policy, and socio-economic outcomes. He was an Okun-Model Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings (2016-17) and received the National Economic Association President’s Award for Service (2015). 

During his fellowship this year, Dr. Hardy is working on a monograph which investigates how historical racial segregation in different areas of the US has affected contemporary socioeconomic outcomes for racial minorities.  Hardy is combining data on economic mobility from the Equality of Opportunity Project with new data on segregation between 1880 and 1940 in order to analyze the extent to which long-term racial disparities in wealth, income and health outcomes have continued to shape intergeneration inequality over the long term.

Dr. Hardy received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kentucky in 2011.