Third Annual Meeting

University Working Groups

Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation

Special Program on the Social Dimensions of Inequality

 

The Latham Hotel, Washington DC, May 29-30, 2003

Hosted by the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC)

 

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003

Sessions will be held in the Washington Room

 

 

8:00am Breakfast

 

8:30am             Opening Remarks

Eric Wanner, Russell Sage Foundation

William Evans and Hoda Makar, University of Maryland

 

8:45am             Session I: Investments in Children

 

"Inequality in Pre-School Education and School Readiness"

Katherine Magnuson, Columbia University,

Marcia Meyers, University of Washington,

Christopher Ruhm University of North Carolina – Greensboro,

Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University

 

Discussant: Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin

 

"Caring for Young Children: Inequality in the Cost Burden Across Families"

Dan T. Rosenbaum and Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina –

Greensboro and National Bureau of Economic Research

 

Discussant: Meredith Phillips, UCLA

 

10:15am Break

 

10:45am           Session II: Health

 

"Inequality and Mortality in Rich Countries: Who Owns the Null Hypothesis?"

Andrew Clarkwest and Christopher Jencks, Harvard University

 

Discussant: William Evans, University of Maryland

 

"The Determinants of Trends in Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality Since 1960"

David M. Cutler and Ellen Meara, Harvard University

 

Discussant: Stephanie Robert, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

12:15pm Lunch

 

1:15pm             Session III: Civic Engagement and Political Participation

 

"Voice and Inequality: The Contemporary Transformation of American Civic

Democracy"

Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

 

Discussant: Nolan McCarty, Princeton University

 

"Inequality, Trust, and Political Engagement,"

Eric M. Uslaner and M. Mitchell Brown, University of Maryland

 

Discussant: Sidney Verba, Harvard University

 

2:45pm Break

 

3:00pm             Session IV: Causes of Changing Economic Inequality

 

"Economic Inequality and the Rise in U.S. Imprisonment ".

Bruce Western, Princeton University, and Becky Pettit, University of Washington

 

Discussant: Seth Sanders, University of Maryland

 

"Partisan Politics and the U.S. Income Distribution, 1948-2000"

Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University

 

Discussant: David Ellwood, Harvard University

 

4:30pm Adjourn for the day

 

7:00pm Dinner for conference participants

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2003

Sessions will be held in the Washington Room

 

8:00am Breakfast

 

8:30am             Session V: Inequality and Public Spending

"Our Favorite Method of Redistribution: School Spending Equality, Income

Equality and Growth"

Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University

 

Discussant: Sheila Murray, RAND

 

"The Relationship between Economic Inequality and Government Social

Spending in the United States"

Susan Mayer, University of Chicago

 

Discussant: William Evans, University of Maryland

 

10:00am Break

 

10:30am           Session VI: Multiple Outcomes

"Income Distribution and Social Expenditure: A Cross-national Perspective "

Jonathan Schwabish, Syracuse University

Tim Smeeding, Syracuse University

Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University

 

Discussant: Dan Rosenbaum, University of North Carolina Greensboro

 

"Money and Morale: What Growing Inequality is Doing to Americans’ Views of

Themselves and Others"

Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussant: Rob Mare, UCLA

 

12:00pm Lunch

 

1:00pm             Session VII: Political Contributions

"Income, Income Inequality, and Political Contributions"

Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussant: Paul Dimaggio, Princeton University

1:45pm Future Planning

 

3:00pm Adjourn