Who Starts Ahead and Who Moves Ahead? Achievement, Social Adjustment and their Production in Children (Prof. Randy Olsen)

October 11, 2018

Open-Lab, 4th floor, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

Who Starts Ahead and Who Moves Ahead? Achievement, Social Adjustment and their Production in Children (Prof. Randy Olsen)

• Date: (Thu) October 11, 2018 13:20-14:50
• Open-Lab, 4th floor, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Campus MAP[No.3]
• Speaker: Prof. Randy Olsen
Staff, the Center for Human Research (CHRR), and Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, the Ohio State University. Professor Olsen was the director of the CHRR and has been heavily involved with the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLS) for over twenty years. He also works on other projects at CHRR, most of which are related to applied microeconomics.
• Language: English
• Entry fee: Free
This seminar is open to students, scholars and the public for free.
• As Adam Smith pointed out, the wealth of nations is in their inhabitants, making the development of children central to economic development and progress. Many of the “gateways” through which children must pass on the way to adulthood can be characterized as sorting children into an ordering on social, emotional and especially cognitive outcomes. While economic development reflects aggregate child development, for individual economic outcomes, where a child ranks in their peer group has significant impacts. Prof. Olsen uses data from the Children of the NLSY79 to examine the process that sorts children by their cognition and behavioral problems.

Panel Data Research Center at Keio
Institute for Economic Studies, Keio University
Center for Research on Equality of Opportunity for Children
Supported by: MEXT KAKENHI 16H06323