Please join us next Wednesday at 2PM (note the time change) for a guest seminar by Nathaniel Hendren, “The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children’s Long-Term Outcomes.” These are two papers relevant to his talk next week. nbhds_paper mto_paper His research was highlighted in The New York Times (The New York Times) this week and is… Read More Seminar May 13

Please join us Wednesday at 11AM for a guest seminar by Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The title of his talk is “Prediction and Social Policy: Applications of Machine Learning to Social Science.”

This Friday there will be a meeting of the working group on Biology and Social Science in the library. Agenda & Participant List This is a closed meeting, but if you have any questions about the topic please don’t hesitate to ask Eric Bias.

Please join us Wednesday, April 22 at 11AM in the library for Mona Lynch’s seminar “Drug Deals in Court: Plea Negotiations as Local Practice.” For background reading, please review her book’s introductory chapter.

Please join us Wednesday at 11AM in the library for Arden Morris’s seminar talk, “Accountability and its Consequences in Two U.S. Safety Net Hospitals.”

There will be no seminar next Wednesday. We will resume April 15 with Arden Morris.