EVENTS 2009-2010
September 25-26, 2009
"Making Welfare States Work: Citizens, Workers, and Welfare States in Comparative Perspective"
Time and location tba
Co-Sponsored event with the
Institute for European Studies
March 30, 2010
"More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City"
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Sociology
Harvard University
7:00 p.m.;location tba
Co-Sponsored event with the ISS Poverty Team, CSI,
BLCC, and University Lectures Program
ISS THEME PROJECT EVENTS
September 8
"Hunger and Food Insecurity in the US: History, Correlates and Dynamics"
Christine Olson, Poverty Team Member and Prof. of Nutritional Science
12:00-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
September 9
"The Future of U.S. Poverty Policy and Research"
2:00-5:30 p.m., Biotech G10
September 15
"Poverty, Stress and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital"
Anna Aizer, Economics, Brown University
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
September 22
"The Political Representation of the Poor"
Karen Jusko, Political Science, Stanford University
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
September 29
Pat Sharkey, Sociology, NYU
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
October 6
Parke Wilde, Nutritional Science & Policy, Tufts University
12:00-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
October 13
"Current Frontiers in the Study of Economic Mobility in Developing Countries"
8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 423 ILR Conference Center
October 20
"Employer Market Power in the Low-Wage Labor Market"
Jordan Matsudaira, Poverty Team Member and Prof. of Applied Economics & Man.
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
October 27
"Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya: Ex Ante Impact On Welfare Dynamics"
Chris Barrett, Poverty Team Leader and Prof. of Applied Economics & Management
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
November 10
Nik Theodore, City & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
November 16-17
"Institutions, Behavior and the Escape from Persistent Poverty"
423 ILR Conference Center
November 24
Dan Lichter,
Poverty Team Member and Prof. of PAM & Sociology
12:00-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
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NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
The CSI Inequality Quiz has been updated with 12 new questions that are designed to reveal your IQ (Inequality Quotient). Because this IQ is an acquired not innate capacity, students scoring below 100% can expect substantial gains by completing the Inequality Minor. (Between 2001 and the summer of 2008, the prior version of the CSI Inequality Quiz was taken more than 10,000 times. Click here to see the questions, correct answers, and distributions of responses across each of the questions.)
ISS 2008-2011 Theme Project
CSI Faculty Affiliate Christopher Barrett will lead
Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility, the 2008-2011 Theme Project at Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. He will be joined by CSI Director Stephen L. Morgan as a core team member, along with faculty affiliates Christopher J. Anderson (Government), Susan Christopherson (City & Regional Planning), Matthew Freedman (ILR Labor Economics), Daniel T. Lichter ( Policy Analysis & Management and Sociology), Jordan Masudaira (Policy Analysis and Management), Christine Olson (Nutrition Sciences), David Sahn (Nutritional Sciences/Economics), and Nic van de Walle (Government).
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From Stanford University Press
Published in 2006, this volume compiles and extends papers presented at the conference
"Frontiers in Socioeconomic Mobility: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Conference," hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality in
collaboration with the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative at
Cornell University.
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Published in 2006, this volume compiles and extends papers presented at the
"Symposium on Conceptual Challenges in Poverty and Inequality,"
hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality in collaboration with
the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative at Cornell University.
more info
MINOR IN INEQUALITY STUDIES
Profiles of Alumni and
Current Minors
The Minor in Inequality Studies
is an interdisciplinary program that may be completed with a major. If you're a Cornell undergraduate interested in
government service, policy work, or related jobs in nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), or want to go on to graduate work in anthropology,
economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public
policy, or sociology, the Minor in Inequality Studies may be just what you need.
Obtain your
enrollment form
for the Minor in Inequality Studies online.
Click here
to see a list of spring 2009 inequality-related courses that satisfy the minor's electives requirement.
Core Course 2008-2009:
SOC 2220 Controversies About Inequality
This course is the primary requirement for completion of the Minor in Inequality
Studies. It will be offered in the fall of 2010.
Overview Courses:
- Income Distribution (ILRLE 4410)
- Comparative Social Stratification (D SOC 3700 and SOC 3710)
- Social Inequality (SOC 2208 and D SOC 2090)
- Organizations and Social Inequality (ILROB 6260)
- Race and Public Policy (PAM 3370 and SOC 3370)
- Families and Social Inequality (PAM 4470 and SOC 4470)
Since the program's inception in 2003, more than 230 undergraduates from five of Cornell's colleges have earned the Minor in Inequality Studies. Another 87 students are currently enrolled as minors.
How much do you know about inequality?
Take our interactive quiz
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