Climate Change: A Policy Forecast
What are the prospects for legislative action surrounding climate change this year? And what effect, if any, will those policies have on reducing carbon emissions and improving the environment? We explore those questions—and the policy climate in Was...
The 2013 Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies
Forty Years of Japanese Feminism: What It Has Achieved … and What It Has Not By Chizuko Ueno, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University Has the second wave of feminism improved women’s status in Japan? Chizuko Ueno discusses achievements and failures of...
Beyond Borders: The Politics of Immigration Policy (Part 2)
The outcome of the Washington debate over comprehensive immigration reform promises to have a significant impact on individuals, communities, the U.S. economy, and national security. This symposium examines the politics of immigration policy—past, pr...
Beyond Borders: The Politics of Immigration Policy (Part 1)
The outcome of the Washington debate over comprehensive immigration reform promises to have a significant impact on individuals, communities, the U.S. economy, and national security. This symposium examines the politics of immigration policy—past, pr...
Life Expectancy, Medical Testing, and Human Capital Investment
When facing a grim diagnosis of a life-shortening incurable disease, ignorance may be bliss—or at least a desirable state—and knowledge will change your life choices, according to research by Emily Oster, a faculty member with the Institute’s Chi...
Collective Impact to Address Social Challenges: The Role of the Nonprofit Sector
Chapin Hall Child and Family Policy Forum Collective Impact to Address Social Challenges: The Role of the Nonprofit Sector April 18, 2013 Achieving positive outcomes for young children and their families requires new thinking in how we conceptualize...
The Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture: Quarks and the Cosmos
Pioneering University of Chicago cosmologist Michael S. Turner focuses his remarks on “the Chicago School of Cosmology,” from Edwin Hubble and George Ellery Hale to the present. Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917, discovered that the universe consists of bi...
Closing Address: Today in Health Reform: The Calm between the Storms
Henry J. Aaron delivered the closing address of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago School of Social Service...
Response: System Transformation and the ACA
The fourth session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, included ...
ACOs and Inequality
The fourth session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, was entit...