Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST
Carow Hall, Lecture Room
ter for Study of Public Choice for lunch, a presentation, and a discussion at Public Choice Seminar Series featuring:
Alan Olmstead, U.C. Davis
Light Lunch: 11:45
Seminar: 12:00Come join the Cen noon - 1:15 PM
The seminar series schedule and paper can be found here.
Come join the Center for Study of Public Choice for lunch, a presentation, and a discussion at Public Choice Seminar Series featuring:
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, on:
Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st-Century America
Light Lunch: 11:45
Seminar: 12:00 noon - 1:15 PM
Wednesday, January 30th
Carow Hall
We kick off the Spring 2019 Public Choice Seminar Series with another fascinating article by distinguished economist Edward Glaeser. In Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st-Century America, Glaeser et al. examine the efficacy of spatially targeted redistribution policies. They conclude that although individual targeting is generally more effective, place-based proemployment policies that reduce the not working rate in parts of the country with more elastic employment responses is easier than in parts of the country with less elastic responses.
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. His academic research has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, The American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics (among Others).
More information can be found here.
P.S. This semester, we will return to the seminar rule that strictly confines audience questions to the 30-minute Q&A period after the speaker’s formal presentation.
