This lecture was part of the first annual Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, hosted at the University of Chicago from July 9-15, 2012. The program brought 37 doctoral students from across the globe to UChicago, where they took a multidimensional approach to studying inequality and human flourishing. Students from a variety of disciplines attended lectures, presented research, and engaged with faculty and peers.
The Summer School was led by James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at UChicago, and Steven N. Durlauf, Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow and Laurits R. Christensen Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin—both members of UChicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.
Generous support for this program was provided by the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group and the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Learn more about the Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality at ineqss.uchicago.edu.
