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The Hidden Cost of Prizes
What happens when high-achieving students are awarded prizes? When two high schools assigned “platinum” and “gold” ID cards to students with high test scores, average performance increased, but the program also created new and unintended inequalities. Check out the paper by CPI New Scholar Andrew Penner and his coauthors.
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Workshop on the Survey of Income and Program Participation
This four-day workshop will introduce participants to the use of the Survey of Income and Program Participation Synthetic Beta (SSB) and provide hands-on applications to prepare them to conduct their own SSB-based research. Applications are due by May 27, 2016.
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Missed our conference on the future of poverty measurement? Check out the videos on state and local poverty measurement initiatives:
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Jason Beckfield considers how health inequality in the U.S. stacks up against that of peer countries in the eighth installment of our “State of the Union” video series.
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Researchers from the Urban Displacement Project discuss their efforts to understand and address gentrification and displacement in the Bay Area.
Tuesday, May 17, Pigott Hall, 4:30pm
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Tel Aviv University professor Alexandra Kalev will present "Criminal Record Checks, Drug Testing and the Employment of Minority Men and Women in Professional and Blue-Collar Jobs."
Wednesday, May 18, Faculty East building, room E247, Graduate School of Business, 12pm
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Tufts University professor Natalie Masuoka argues that Americans increasingly accept the idea that individuals can choose identities that were once seen as immutable.
Wednesday, May 18, Brandon Room, Black Community Services Center, 12pm
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Harvard University professor Alexandra Killewald argues that marriage has no causal effect on men’s wages and that marriage occurs when wages are already rising unusually rapidly.
Thursday, May 19, Mendenhall, 12:30pm
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Leading scholars present new research on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of academic achievement gaps and educational disparities. Visit the conference website for more information.
Thursday May 19 - Friday May 20, CERAS 101
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Graduate School of Education professor Ben Domingue explores what schools can do to moderate the association between genes and educational attainment.
Friday, May 20, CERAS 204, 12pm
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