BOOK FORUM:
Making Social Programs WOrk Better
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
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Who should be first in line for kidney transplants—the relatively healthy or the severely ill? Should chronic troublemakers be allowed to remain in public housing? Should perpetually disruptive students stay in classes where they can prevent other children from learning? In their new book, Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples, Peter Schuck and Richard Zeckhauser take on such vexing policy dilemmas. The authors present a new framework for analyzing many of the difficult choices facing policymakers who wish to target society’s resources more effectively. |
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AGENDA
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
11:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
| 11:45 A.M. |
Registration and Lunch |
| 12:15 P.M. |
Welcome |
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ROBERT HAHN, Joint Center |
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Presentation: |
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PETER SCHUCK, Yale Law School |
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RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University |
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Discussants: |
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DOUGLAS BESHAROV, AEI |
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CLIFFORD WINSTON, Joint Center |
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For more information, please contact Molly Wells at 202.862.5903 or [email protected].
Biographies
Douglas Besharov is the Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a professor at the University of Marlyand's School of Public Policy and the project director of its Welfare Reform Academy. Dr. Besharov teaches courses on family policy, welfare reform, evaluation, and the implementation of social policy. From 1991 to 1992, he served as the administrator of the AEI/White House Working Seminar on Integrated Services for Children and Families, a project designed to improve the delivery of services to disadvantaged children and their families. From 1975 to 1979, he was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Before this, he served as executive director of the New York State Assembly's Select Committee on Child Abuse.
Robert Hahn is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center and a resident scholar at AEI. Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including The American Economic Review, The Yale Law Journal, Science, and The New York Times. He is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000) and In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2005). In addition, Dr. Hahn is Co-Founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Peter Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School where he has held the chair since 1984. He has also served as Deputy Dean. His major fields of teaching and research are tort law; immigration, citizenship, and refugee law; groups, diversity, and law; and administrative law. Professor Schuck’s most recent books include Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Issues; Immigration Stories; Foundations of Administrative Law; Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance; and The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance. He is a member of the American Law Institute's advisory committee for the Restatement of Torts (Third), Basic Principles, and a contributing editor to The American Lawyer. Prior to joining Yale, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Clifford Winston is a senior fellow at the Joint Center and a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies program. He specializes in analysis of industrial organization, regulation, and transportation. Dr. Winston is co-editor of the annual microeconomics edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Before receiving his fellowship at Brookings, he was associate professor in the transportation systems division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Civil Engineering. He is the author of numerous books and articles that have appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Richard Zeckhauser is Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Zeckhauser pursues a mix of conceptual and applied research. The primary challenge facing society, he believes, is to allocate resources in accordance with the preferences of the citizenry. Much of his conceptual work examines possibilities for democratic, decentralized, allocation procedures. Dr. Zeckhauser’s ongoing policy investigations explore ways to promote the health of human beings, to help labor and financial markets operate more efficiently, and to foster informed and appropriate choices by individuals and government agencies. His current major research addresses the performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality (for example, by engaging in herd behavior). Financial markets and health risks are the subjects of his major empirical investigations.
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