Calendar

"Inside Jobs: Prison Work in the American Labor Market" From the stone quarries of Sing Sing that supplied marble for early New York City landmarks to twenty-first-century construction projects staffed by formerly incarcerated workers, Inside Jobs traces...

"Family Formation and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940" Domestic workers the world over provide labor necessary for the care of better-off families. In the United States, this division of labor has...

"Environmental State-Building in the Amazon Rainforest and the Origins of Global Climate Finance" This talk covers the historical origins of environmental institutions in the Brazilian Amazon and how they informed climate finance models that later became...

"Coordination and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The ‘Ordinary Men’ of the Nazi Party" We digitize and analyze the near-universe of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) membership records and link them to population and industrial censuses...

"Metrics that Mislead: How Accountability Policy Undermines School Community" For decades, the dashboards, test scores, attendance rates, and accountability “report cards” that have proliferated across public education have promised an authoritative, bird...