Dear RSF:
Reminder, there will be no Wednesday seminar next week, as the Communications team is meeting with the Visiting Class. Instead, we will have a Thursday webinar at 1:00 PM on 9/21, presented by Guest Speaker Zachary Parolin from Columbia University’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy. If you’d like to attend the webinar, please register using the link below:
Parolin will be discussing his new book, Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19 (RSF, 2023). The book explores three perspectives on poverty—poverty as a risk factor, poverty as an expression of access to current resources, and poverty as a stratifying factor—and how they affected people during the COVID-19 pandemic. He advocates for policy approaches that will both prepare us for the next large-scale economic disruption and provide timely assistance when upheaval occurs, and makes the case for more frequent, and more nuanced poverty measures.
Parolin earned his PhD in Socio-Economics from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He currently holds dual appointments as Assistant Professor of Social Policy, Bocconi University (Italy) and Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy. His research focuses on the measurement and determinants of poverty and social inequality in high-income countries.
As Thursday’s webinar is at 1:00 PM, you may wish to eat lunch in your office if you’re joining from RSF. Please do remember to bring your plates back down to the cafeteria by 2:30.