InequaliTalks
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 36: Trade and Foreign Labor -- with Mathilde Muñoz
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mathilde studies whether jobs supplied locally are protected from globalization and how trade liberalization interacts with labor mar...
Episode 35: Gender Inequality in Peruvian Trade -- with Pamela Medina Quispe
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pamela Medina Quispe explores the idea that trade liberalization in Peru negatively impacts women’s participation in the labor mark...
Episode 34: The Effects of Trade on Wages -- with Mayara Felix
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does trade reduce wages? Why? In this episode, Mayara Felix considers the impact of trade liberalization on workers’ wages, and their ability to fin...
Episode 33: Intergenerational Trauma in the Antilles -- with Marie Beigelman
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Marie Beigelman speaks about the intergenerational traumas and economic gaps borne of slavery and forced labors in the Caribbean—Gu...
Episode 32: Persistent Economic Inequality in China -- with Marlon Seror
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Marlon Seror explores how one of the most radical social transformations in recent human history affected economic inequality in Chin...
Episode 31: How Air Pollution Creates Economic Inequality – with Jonathan Colmer
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jonathan Colmer explores the intergenerational effects of environmental pollution on economic opportunity. He tells us about his work...
Episode 30: The Gender Ask Gap -- with Nina Roussille
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few decades, the raw gender pay gap in the U.S. has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, the residual pay gap, or the chunk of the pay ...
Episode 29: The Minority Trap -- with Xiaoyue Shan
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Xiaoyue Shan discusses her research on the ways in which minority status causes women to leave male-dominated fields. She tells us ab...
Episode 28: Female-Friendly Jobs: the Power of Unions -- with Lorenzo Lagos
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, gender-based discrimination in the workplace has become a symbol of women’s fight for equality. In parallel, the role of unions i...
Season 3 Trailer: The Gender Inequality Series
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Starting Wednesday, September 14th, InequaliTalks is starting its first spotlight series. To begin, we will be looking at gender inequality and interv...
Episode 26: What happens when big companies increase wages? -- with Ellora Derenoncourt
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, decreasing federal minimum wage, low unionization rates and growing outsourcing trends have had some important effects on wage growth...
Episode 25: Carbon Tax Aversion -- with Thomas Douenne
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do beliefs shape and determine our attitudes towards policies? In this episode, Thomas Douenne looks at carbon taxation in the context of the Yell...
Episode 24: Housing and Racial Discrimination -- with Aradhya Sood
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are racial covenants? How do they target specific ethnic and religious minorities? And how do they affect present-day economic outcomes? In this ...
Episode 23: Outsourcing and Inequality -- with Adrien Bilal
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, firms' decision to rely on contract labor over "in-house" workers has become increasingly prevalent. In this episode, Adrien Bilal ...
Episode 22: Affirmative action in Brazil -- with Ana Paula Melo
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is affirmative action? How can it increase the representation of under-privileged groups in a given field? And how might it play out in the highe...
Episode 21: Systemic Discrimination -- with Evan K. Rose
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Evan K. Rose talks to us about his research on the relationship between human capital, company behavior and discrimination. Looking at the hiring proc...
Episode 20: The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis -- with Anna Stansbury
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why has wage inequality increased in the past 40 years in the United States? Why has corporate valuation skyrocketed? In this episode, Anna Stansbury ...
Episode 19: What We Teach about Race and Gender -- with Anjali Adukia
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Books shape how children learn about society and the world. Analyzing over 1,100 award-winning children’s books, Anjali Adukia talks about what arti...
Episode 18: State Capacity, Taxation and Development -- with Augustin Bergeron
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Governments in the world’s poorest countries face important revenue constraints. The ability to collect taxes directly affects the quality of public...
Episode 17: Obesity and Wealth -- with Elisa Macchi
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can obesity signal wealth? In this episode, Elisa talks about the experiment she conducted in Uganda, in which she demonstrates that obese people are ...
Episode 16: Keeping up with the Khans -- with Eve Colson-Sihra
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does inequality affect our perception of necessity and luxury? Does it change our preferences for certain goods? And if yes, what are the impact in te...
Episode 15: Race, Place, Health -- with Diane Alexander
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Higher asthma rates are one of the more obvious ways that health inequalities between African American and other children are manifested beginning in ...
Episode 14: Top Immigrants -- with Felix Koenig
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does immigration import inequality? Felix Koenig talks about his recent research on the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes, showin...
Episode 13: Hurricanes and the City -- with Rhiannon Jerch
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Local governments are essential providers of public goods and services utilized by Americans every day. Extreme weather events can threaten the stabil...
Episode 12: Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice -- with Felix Owusu
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People of color are drastically overrepresented in Massachusetts state prisons. What happens at different stages of the criminal system, from charging...
Episode 11: Can We Do Something about Tax Evasion? -- with Juliana Londoño-Vélez
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Progressive wealth taxes may be difficult to enforce if wealthy individuals underreport their wealth, but disclosure incentives and greater enforcemen...
Episode 10: Season 1 Final Episode -- with Thomas Piketty
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An (almost) unedited conversation with Thomas Piketty about his last book "Capital and Ideology" (2019). We talked about private property, slavery, co...
Episode 9: Minimum Wage and Racial Inequality -- with Claire Montialoux
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The earnings difference between white and Black workers fell dramatically in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Claire Montialoux, i...
Episode 8: Are Female Surgeons Discriminated? -- with Heather Sarsons
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does a person's gender influence the way we interpret information about his or her ability? Heather Sarsons tests this hypothesis in a unique setting ...
Episode 7: Wealth Inequality and Housing -- with Clara Martínez-Toledano
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Housing is the main asset in most individual portfolios. The recent rise in private wealth with respect to national income has been mainly driven by c...
Episode 6: Does a Career in Science Pay? -- with Kadeem L. Noray
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
STEM classes, especially computer science and engineering, are increasingly popular on college campuses, often because they are seen as offering bette...
Episode 5: Global Land Inequality -- with Yajna Govind
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite significant process of industrialization in developping countries across the world, agricultural land is still a vital resource for three out ...
Episode 4: Do Politicians Know about what Citizens Prefer? -- with Asad Liaqat
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do politicians know enough about voters to adequately represent them? Are they responsive to new information about their constituency? How does it aff...
Episode 3: The Most Unequal Region -- with Lydia Assouad
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lydia Assouad revisits the "Arab Inequality puzzle" : survey estimates suggest that inequality in the Middle East is not particularly high. In reality...
Episode 2: A Pandemic in a Globalized World -- with Alessandro Sforza
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What would have been the economic impact of COVID-19 in a less integrated world? Is trade openness a good or a bad thing to mitigate the shock of a pa...
Episode 1: Why Does COVID-19 Affect Poor Households? -- with Michael Stepner
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the U.S economy at an incredibly rapid pace. Michael Stepner presents his most recent work with Opportunity Insight...
Episode 0: Introducing InequaliTalks
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Inequality is one of the most pressing issues in the public conversation. Economic research can help us find the tools to address it. Here is a quick...