Becker Brown Bag Series

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

"Incarceration and the Marriage Market"

By looking at the functioning of marriage markets, Kerwin Charles discussed how economic reasoning helps explain how the mass incarceration of U.S. men over the past 40 years has affected the outcomes and behaviors of women.

Where

The GSB Charles M. Harper Center
Room 104
Lunch will be provided

Who

Kerwin Charles
Steans Family Professor in Education Policy

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Speaker Profiles

Kerwin Charles

Kerwin Charles is the Steans Family Professor in Education Policy in the Harris School and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on a range of subjects in the broad area of empirical labor economics. His work has examined the effect of abortion legalization on outcomes for children born around the time of legalization; the effect of racial composition of neighborhoods on the social connections people make; causes for the dramatic convergence in completed schooling between recent generations of American men and women; the effect of retirement on subjective well being; the propagation of wealth across generations within a family; and many dimensions of the effect of health shocks, including the effect on family stability and labor supply. In ongoing work, he is studying how beliefs, opinions, and expectations determine outcomes in the labor market and elsewhere.