The Center for Poverty & Inequality Research hosts an annual
seminar series on poverty issues. We are pleased to welcome
faculty, researchers, and thought leaders to the UC Davis campus.
Most of our seminars are located in Andrews Conference Room, 2203
Social Sciences and Humanities Building, unless otherwise noted.
Parking Information: Daily parking is
available in the Quad Parking
Structure through the AggiePark website
or AMP app. The Andrews Conference Room is a short walk from the parking
structure.
Directions to Andrews Conference Room:
Enter the Social
Sciences & Humanities Building through the Letters & Science
Dean’s Office entrance (arch and glass doors). Stairs and
elevator are located just inside; proceed to the second floor.
Andrews is on the right side of the hall, 2203 SS&H.
Dr. Jake Rosenfeld is a Professor and Chair of Sociology and
Resident Fellow of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy,
Government, and Public Policy at Washington University-St.
Louis.
Dr. Rosenfeld’s research and teaching focus on the political and
economic determinants of inequality in the United States and
other advanced democracies. He is primarily interested in the
determinants of wages and salaries, and how these vary across
time and place. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton
University.
The opioid crisis in the United States and Canada has reached
unprecedented levels. One understudied dimension is its impact on
the next generation. We use linked administrative data from the
Canadian province of British Columbia (where opioid death rates
exceed the US national average) that links birth records since
2000 to health, education, well-being and mortality for both the
mother and the child. We have three main findings.
Dr. Arline T. Geronimus is a renowned public health researcher,
professor, and author of Weathering: The Extraordinary
Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society, called a
“monumental” book by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an
Antiracist.
