Seminar Series

On the evolutionary foundations of intra-family resource sharing

Speaker

Ingela Alger
CNRS Senior Researcher in Economics
Toulouse School of Economics

Abstract

Intra-family resource sharing is extensive in Homo sapiens. In this talk I will summarize key findings of theoretical work on the evolutionary foundations of some of this sharing, including paternal investment and food sharing between unrelated males and females.

How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions

Speaker

David Figlio
Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education
University of Rochester

Abstract

This presentation highlights the recent scholarship of David Figlio, who popularized the use of matched birth-school data to address public health and education policy questions in the field of economics. Figlio will present a survey of his research on early health and later educational outcomes, as well as the use of sibling comparisons (facilitated by matched birth records) to study policy-relevant issues in education.