Inequality & the Social Safety Net Tue., November 21, 2017 | 12:00 PM — 1:15 PM Harris Public Policy 289B 1155 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 United States Sponsored By: Center for Economic Policy Please join Professor Manasi Deshpande in a lunch-time discussion of “Inequality and the Social Safety Net”, hosted by Harris’s Center for Economic Policy and the microeconomics faculty. Professor Deshpande has studied welfare and income support programs in the US with a focus on its implications for inequality. Disability payments (SSI) are the largest cash welfare program in the US and Professor Deshpande has examined the effect of disability payments on household earnings and income, paying close attention to how families and individuals respond to changes in income versus relative prices (income versus substitution effects). Such work provides a strong link between the fundamental microeconomics we study in our first-year core courses, and important public policy issues of income inequality. Lunch will be provided. RSVP by Monday, November 20, 2017. About the Speaker Professor Deshpande is assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, joining in 2015. Her research areas are empirical public finance and labor economics, with a focus on the effects of social insurance and public assistance programs and their interaction with labor markets. Questions? Contact Harris Events Recent News More news Q&A: Assistant Professor Erin Kelley on Her Work in Program Evaluation, International Development, and With the World Bank Wed., July 09, 2025 University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth Launch New Pathbreaking Master’s Program in Climate and Energy Policy Tue., July 08, 2025 Provost Katherine Baicker Appointed Emmett Dedmon Distinguished Service Professor Thu., July 03, 2025
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