Dear Scholars, Researchers, and Staff, Please join us next Wednesday, September 30, at 11:00 for a guest seminar featuring Jason DeParle, speaking on “How Journalists Use Social Science.” DeParle is a senior writer at The New York Times and Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation. A graduate of Duke University, he won a George… Read More Guest Seminar September 30 – Jason deParle
The Visiting Scholars, along with Marta Tienda and Steven Greenhouse, will meet with Sheldon, Ivan, John, and Claire in the library from 11:30 to 12:30 for an introduction to working at the Foundation and support offered by Computing Services and Information Services. Following lunch, we will gather again in the library at 2:00 to hear… Read More Schedule for Tuesday, September 1
Please join us next Wednesday for a special guest seminar. Eric Wanner (president emeritus of RSF) will be in conversation with Richard Thaler about his new book, “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics”. Please note that this seminar will take place at 3PM in the library.
This coming Monday, June 8th, from 9 am to 4 pm, RSF will be hosting a meeting in the Library on “Collaborations between Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics, and Public Finance,” co-sponsored by the Sloan Foundation and organized by Stefano DellaVigna of UC Berkeley. Agenda & Participant List There is limited space available, so if you… Read More Collaborations between Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics, and Public Finance Meeting
Please join us for a seminar by Sean Reardon next Wednesday titled “New Evidence on Patterns of Educational Inequality.” The seminar will be in the library at 11AM.
Please join us next Wednesday, May 20, for a seminar by Craig S. Wilder, Chair of the Department of History at MIT. Craig S. Wilder studies American urban, intellectual, and cultural history. The talk is on the book, Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. The seminar will be in the library at… Read More Seminar May 20