Annual Report 1.2020 HCEO Is Run by the Center for the Economics of Human Development, and Funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking

Annual Report 1.2020 HCEO is run by the Center for the Economics of Human Development, and funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM THE DIRECTORS

Upcoming & Featured Events 2 Building Synergies Across Disciplines In 2019, the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group continued to expand our collaborations around the world. We demonstrated our commitment to Recent Events 4 training the next generation of scholars by awarding two dissertation prizes and by host- Explore our Event Resources Online ing three summer schools for Ph.D. students and one for undergraduates.

Emerging Scholars 6 Summer Schools, Training Workshops, and Dissertation Prize HCEO also hosted two conferences, a Health Inequality program on breastfeeding and the origins of health, and a Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy program on neighbor- Working Papers Series 10 hoods and social inequality. We also co-sponsored a new series on campus, Policy Forum, Promoting Research and Understanding organized by HCEO Director James Heckman and Markets network member Lars Peter New Resources 12 Hansen. These seminars addressed major public policy issues. Expanding HCEO's Impact

HCEO Members in the News 14 In addition to our programming, HCEO remains dedicated to disseminating members' Deepening Understanding of Inequality Scholarship academic findings to broader audiences. In 2019, HCEO produced 10 new Research Spotlights, which take top working papers and distill them into accessible articles. We are Notable Member Awards 16 pleased to report the year’s most engaging research spotlight featured "Motherhood and Accomplishments and Honors the Gender Productivity Gap," by MIP network member Yana Gallen. Looking ahead, HCEO is dedicated to fostering the spirit of new economic thinking through our ongoing Amplifying Research 18 Website and Social Media Metrics work, and we look forward to continued growth in the years to come.

Global Partnerships 20 Fostering International Collaboration

About HCEO 23 Our Vision

Leadership and Networks 26 Connecting Experts Across Fields James J. Heckman Steven N. Durlauf Robert H. Dugger Members 28 HCEO’s Interdisciplinary Composition

iv 1 UPCOMING & FEATURED EVENTS Building Synergies Across Disciplines

HCEO achieves its mission through July 13–17,2020 o Summer School on who study how memberships and workshops, conferences, webinars, Socioeconomic Inequality, Chengdu, China social interactions drive social cross-institutional visits, partnerships, inequality. Sessions paired economists and annual summer schools. Since and sociologists to discuss topics in its inception in January 2011, HCEO FEATURED RECENT EVENTS segregation, neighborhood effects, social has held 107 events in 13 countries. networks, and models of social interaction. HCEO events have attracted over 3,245 November 8, 2019 o Policy Forum: The Pension participants. Here we list our upcoming Crisis July 1–5, 2019 o HCEO Summer School events and highlight three recent Co-organized with the Macro Finance Research for Undergraduate Students, Guangzhou, events. More details, including videos Program and the Center for the Economics of China and related materials, can be found Human Development, this forum was intended to HCEO and Jinan University hosted on our website at hceconomics.org. inform the debate on the state and local pension the Summer School on Socioeconomic crisis, its dimensions, economic ramifications, Inequality and Best Paper Competition at and potential solutions. We addressed various Jinan University, an inaugural program for

UPCOMING EVENTS issues including the scope and magnitude of undergraduate students in China. During the The University of Chicago Policy Forum: The Pension Crisis the fiscal challenges, the role of property taxes summer school, six senior professors of economics June 29–July 3, 2020 o HCEO-briq Summer and their implications for property values, the from leading universities around the world gave School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Bonn, continued need to encourage new businesses introductory lectures on various economic topics to Germany while addressing the necessity for more revenue the participants. Students also had the opportunity in the future, and a better understanding of the to participate in the 2019 Best Paper Competition, July 6–10, 2020 o HCEO Summer School for political environment and process that gave rise where they presented their work before a panel Undergraduate Students, Guangzhou, China to the challenges faced in the city of Chicago, of leading experts and received constructive the state of Illinois, as well as in other states and feedback. The final award was announced at the municipalities around the country. end of the summer school.

November 1–2, 2019 o Neighborhoods, EVENT LOCATIONS (2011 - 2019) Segregation, and Social Inequality The sorting of individuals into spatial and social contexts defines group memberships. Memberships reveal pre-existing inequalities and produce new Neighborhoods, Segregation, and Social Inequality inequalities in their own right. This conference brought together leading economists and sociologists 107 Events in 13 Countries

2 3 RECENT EVENTS Explore our Event Resources Online

Event Title Dates Link Resources

Dissertation Prize Lecture: Democracy Without Dissertation Prize Lunch Lecture: Essays in Oct. 2, 2018 bit.ly/2z6dO4A  Redistribution: The Sense of Injustice, Applied Microeconomics Nov 13, 2019 bit.ly/2NceSux  Perceived Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution Masters-Level Summer School on Jul. 30–Aug. 3, bit.ly/2Dk35Gn   Socioeconomic Inequality 2018, Chicago 2018

Policy Forum: The Pension Crisis Nov 8, 2019 bit.ly/2FBqByI  Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Jul. 9–13, 2018 bit.ly/2LYAxDK   2018, Bonn Neighborhoods, Segregation, and Social Nov 1-2, 2019 bit.ly/35DOLmT  Inequality Student Training Summer Seminar at Peking Jul. 7–9, 2018 bit.ly/2uX5nGs  University, Beijing Dissertation Prize Lecture: General Equilibrium Theory and Empirical Analysis of Immigrants’ Oct 9, 2019 bit.ly/2t0LSyY  Faculty Collaborative Seminar 2018 Jun 25–29, 2018 bit.ly/2LV90mT   Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration Family Inequality Workshop Jun. 19–20, 2018 bit.ly/2HiY13x Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Jul 15-19, 2019 bit.ly/39Wl1EU  Chengdu Measuring and Assessing Skills: Real-Time Measurement of Cognition, Personality, and Feb. 9–10, 2018 bit.ly/2sfvA1S  HCEO Summer School for Undergraduate Behavior Jul 1-5, 2019 bit.ly/304wIVC Students, Guangzhou The Gut Microbiome in Human Biology and Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Health: New Opportunities for the Study of Health Nov. 9–10, 2017 bit.ly/2jgPnJJ   Jun. 24–28, 2019 bit.ly/2IbQ042  Bergen Disparities

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality,  Understanding Human Capital Formation and its Jun. 10–14, 2019 bit.ly/2KebbEG Nov. 3, 2017 bit.ly/2zjRANz   Moscow Determinants

Genes, Schools, and Interventions That Address  Dec. 13–14, 2018 bit.ly/2DCvjgA Workshop on Social Interactions and Crime Oct. 20–21, 2017 bit.ly/2hdDH9e  Educational Inequality

 Measuring and Improving Health Equity Dec 7-8, 2018 bit.ly/2K0DBPP HCEO Dissertation Prize Lunch Lecture: Moved to Oct. 19, 2017 bit.ly/2A8dk02  Opportunity Polygenic Prediction and its Application in the Nov. 30–Dec. 1, bit.ly/2B2SXAg  Social Sciences 2018 Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Aug. 28–Sep.2, bit.ly/2juDsdN   2017, Moscow, Russia 2017 Social Interactions and Education Nov. 9–10, 2018 bit.ly/2PRigxF  Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Aug. 7–11, 2017 bit.ly/2vZrAlI   Next Generation Data Sets for Measuring Child 2017, Chicago Nov. 2–3, 2018 bit.ly/2DA1hKk  Development Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality,  Jun. 25–29, 2017 bit.ly/2tO1Xmf   Development Economics and Market Design Oct. 28–29, 2018 bit.ly/2FlUIN9 Guangzhou, China

Dissertation Prize Lunch Lecture: Between- Conference on Human Capital and Financial Apr. 20–21, 2017 bit.ly/2qPplOx Personal Differences in Sensation-Seeking: Frictions Oct. 18, 2018 bit.ly/2B2SU7y  Implications for Brain-Based Models of Adolescent Risk Taking

4 5 EMERGING SCHOLARS “It was an inspiring and confidence- boosting week to meet fellow students Summer Schools, Training Workshops, and and present research. One of the best experience of the Ph.D. and I am Dissertation Prize encouraging everyone to apply as it's certainly a worthwhile experience for a During these intense programs, students attend budding academic!” HCEO is committed to honoring lectures, engage in discussions with leading faculty INET’s mission to build a home from around the world, present their own research, “SSSI provided a great opportunity for a new generation of thinkers. and interact with peers from institutions across to learn new techniques and acquire All HCEO programming engages the globe. different perspectives on old methods. interdisciplinary groups of graduate The close interaction with faculty and Students are selected from a diverse, competitive students was very valuable and has had Summer School on Socioeconomic students and our Emerging Scholars Inequality, Moscow program provides opportunities applicant pool and represent many disciplines considerable impact on my subsequent for younger researchers to present including: economics, public policy, sociology, research.” their work to our senior members. social thought, and social work. Faculty are selected by the HCEO directors from a range of “It was a boost of creativity. A push of going academic fields. further and deeper. And overall I evaluate it as ABOUT SSSI the best summer school I attended during my Ph.D.” The 2020 Human Capital and Economic FEEDBACK FROM SSSI ALUMNI Opportunity Global Working Group Summer “Coming from a non-US based university, the Schools on Socioeconomic Inequality will provide SSSI was a great opportunity for me to meet and a state-of-the-art overview on the study of “SSSI provided a great introduction to new discuss with researchers who are at the frontiers inequality and human flourishing. Participants will rigorous empirical approaches to investigate of our field.” learn about the integration between psychological economics through original research [...] In and sociological insights into the foundations addition to the research methodology, many of the of human behavior and conventional economic presentations discussed cutting edge research on models. Through rigorous lectures students will be topics of inequality which I plan to incorporate into trained on various tools my own research.” PREVIOUS SUMMER SCHOOLS needed to study the issue of inequality. “[SSSI prepared me to] dive into my research field and use the methods learned in summer school to do better research.”

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality 2019, Chengdu “SSSI was an eye opening experience that had large impacts on my research and career. It was 1 a great opportunity to interact with leaders in 2 1 the field and get exposure to cutting edge 2 and relevant skills for doing research. 6 2 Getting to know other serious 1 students who were successful 4 later on in their subsequent careers was also invaluable. I learned a lot about how to think critically, present work, and 19 interact with other researchers Summer Schools in in that short week.” 6 Countries

6 7 HCEO DISSERTATION PRIZE

In 2017 we launched a competition for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic related to one of HCEO’s six networks. In 2019, our third annual dissertation prize was awarded to two recipients. Yeon Ju Lee won for her paper, "Democracy Without Redistribution: The Sense of Injustice, Perceived Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution," and Yujung Hwang for her paper "General Equilibrium Theory and Empirical Analysis of Immigrants’ Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration." Lee and Hwang each received a $1,000 prize and presented their research to the Center for the Economics of Human Development, HCEO directors, and University of Chicago faculty.

Guangzhou, China SECOND SUMMER SCHOOL FOR HCEO Dissertation Prize Winner, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Yeon Ju Lee

From July 6-10, HCEO and Jinan University will host the Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality

HCEO Dissertation Prize Winner, and Best Paper Competition at Jinan University, Yujung Hwang the second program for undergraduate students in China. During the summer school, six senior professors of economics from leading universities will give introductory lectures to the participants, with an aim of attracting young scholars into social science research focused on issues of inequality.

8 9 WORKING PAPER SERIES Europe and it is reflected in voting trends in both 2019-043: The Consequences of Promoting Research and Understanding contexts. Prime-aged males out of the labor force in Friendships: Evidence on the Effect the U.S. are the least hopeful and most stressed and of Social Relationships in School on angry compared to the same group in other regions, Academic Achievement including the Middle East. Our aim is to better Jason Fletcher, Stephen Ross, and Yuxiu understand this cohort as part of a broader need to Zhang Started in 2011, our working paper discrimination. The study provides novel evidence rethink our growth models and to explore policies series now has 436 papers featuring on the nature of discrimination and on how males that encourage the participation of able workers in This paper examines the impact of youth friendship the cutting-edge research of HCEO’s falling behind are perceived by society. the new global economy and can provide incentives links on student's own academic performance (grade members. The series is indexed in for community involvement and other forms of point average) using the Add Health. We estimate a RePEc, a recognized research tool used engagement for those who can no longer work. reduced form, high dimensional fixed effects model by social sciences throughout the world. 2019-025: Experiment-as-Market: of within cohort or grade friendship links and use this Incorporating Welfare into Randomized model to predict each student's number of friends Controlled Trials 2019-017: The (In)Elasticity of Moral whose mothers have a four-year college degree. ACCESS STATISTICS Yusuke Narita Ignorance The effects of friendship links are identified using Marta Serra-Garcia and Nora Szech across-cohort, within school variation in demographic File Downloads Abstract Views Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) enroll composition of the student's cohort or grade. We hundreds of millions of subjects and involve We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance find that increases in number of friendship links with Total Total many human lives. To improve subjects’ welfare, I with respect to monetary incentives and social students whose mothers are college educated raises propose a design of RCTs that I call Experiment-as- norm information. We propose that individuals grade point average among girls, but not among boys. 23,557 45,399 Market (EXAM). EXAM produces a Pareto efficient suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting Additional analyses suggest a positive view of the Dec 2019 Dec 2019 allocation of treatment assignment probabilities, is a certain donation, and thus pay for moral school environment and a perception of one's self asymptotically incentive compatible for preference ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find as functioning well in that environment as possible 204 1,038 elicitation, and unbiasedly estimates any causal significant willingness to pay for ignorance, which mechanisms. The effects are relatively broad based Past 3 months Past 3 months effect estimable with standard RCTs. I quantify we calibrate against morally neutral benchmark across students over maternal education, racial and these properties by applying EXAM to a water treatments. We show that the demand curve for ethnic composition and across schools that vary in 967 4,083 cleaning experiment in Kenya (Kremer et al., 2011). moral ignorance exhibits a sharp kink, of about demographic composition over the same variables. Past 12 months Past 12 months In this empirical setting, compared to standard 50 percent, when moving from small negative to RCTs, EXAM substantially improves subjects’ small positive monetary incentives. By contrast, 4,167 12,786 predicted well-being while reaching similar while social norms strongly favor information treatment effect estimates with similar precision. acquisition, they have little impact on curbing moral ignorance. TOP 5 JAN – DEC 2019 2019-016: Men Without Work: Why are 2019-014: The Boy Crisis: Experimental They so Unhappy in the US Compared Evidence on the Acceptance of Males to Other Places? Falling Behind Sergio Pinto and Carol Graham Working Paper downloads and abstract views from 2012 to 2019 Alexander Cappelen, Ranveig Falch, and Bertil Tungodden The global economy is full of paradoxes. Despite progress in technology, reducing poverty, and 15000 The "boy crisis" prompts the question of whether increasing life expectancy, the poorest states lag people interpret inequalities differently depending behind, and there is increasing inequality and 12000 on whether males or females are lagging behind. anomie in the wealthiest ones. A key driver of such 9000 We study this question in a novel large-scale unhappiness in advanced countries is the decline in 6000 distributive experiment involving more than the status and wages of low-skilled labor. A related 5,000 Americans. Our data provide strong feature is the increase in prime-aged males (and to 3000 evidence of a gender bias against low-performing a lesser extent women) simply dropping out of the 0 males, particularly among female participants. labor force, particularly in the U.S. This same group (2012) (2013) (2014) (2015) (2016) (2017) (2018) (2019) A large set of additional treatments establishes is over-represented in the “deaths of despair.” that the gender bias reflects statistical fairness There is frustration among this same cohort in

10 11 NEW RESOURCES 3 QUESTIONS

Expanding HCEO's Reach Our 3 Questions series consists of brief interviews with HCEO members across all six networks. Published monthly on our website, the interviews spotlight our members and the important research they are doing across disciplines. HCEO has launched several exciting RESEARCH SPOTLIGHTS initiatives, aimed at sharing the Read Recent 3 Questions: important research of our 544 Our Research Spotlight series consists of longform members with a wider audience. Our 3 articles that highlight recent HCEO working papers. Geoffrey Wodtke: bit.ly/36VgaC0 Questions series, Research Spotlight, Published on our website, the series helps make Marie-Claire Arrieta: bit.ly/2u5UowJ and member video interviews all the work of our members accessible to a wider Nazli Baydar: bit.ly/381PJuG work towards HCEO's mission of audience. This past year, we have featured papers Jun Hyung Kim: bit.ly/2Tr1Z3L understanding and addressing on topics including: peer effects in education, the Meghan Azad: bit.ly/2toTP1h opportunity inequality around the world. causal effects of adolescent school bullying, and motherhood and the gender productivity gap. In 2019, our Research Spotlights were accessed through our website over 2,600 times. 3 Questions with Marie-Claire Arrieta VIDEO INTERVIEWS Read Recent Spotlights: Launched in 2016, our bimonthly HCEO member John Eric Humphries: bit.ly/2TpFKeA video interview series continues to be a popular Jane Waldfogel: bit.ly/2TosMhb resource. The member interviews are published on Raquel Fernández: bit.ly/35UBqqq the HCEO website as well as on our YouTube channel, Stefania Albanesi: bit.ly/2NJIUq3 where the videos have garnered more than 10,000 views this year. In recent months, we have featured interviews on a wide variety of topics related to inequality, including MIP network member Robert Moffitt discussing the optimal design of welfare Research Spotlight: Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California programs, MIP network member Daily Yang on development in China, and MIP network member Ariel Kalil on parent-child interactions. In 2019, we also continued our complementary video series where network affiliates discuss how they became interested in their field of study.

Watch Recent Interviews:

Christopher Flinn: bit.ly/30pCXn8 John Eric Humphries: bit.ly/2RnNuev Ariel Kalil: bit.ly/2tYEg0i Dali Yang: bit.ly/388YJ11

Bertil Tungodden: bit.ly/2QTU4dF Video Interview: Ariel Kalil

12 13 HCEO MEMBERS IN THE NEWS to make their later lives much better, and they pass Did busing for school desegregation Deepening Understanding of Inequality a heritage of opportunity on to their own succeed? Here’s what research says. children,” the article notes. Rucker Johnson Scholarship Chalkbeat, July 1, 2019

Reading at home and school Chalkbeat spoke to It is the mission of HCEO to foster a competitor,” he writes. “The real battle is within attendance shot up with a cheap, easy MIP network member wider understanding of global inequality capitalism, between two models that jostle against solution: Texting Rucker Johnson on and promote the use of members’ work each other.” Ariel Kalil his research into the to inform policy and interventions USA Today, September 12, 2019 impact of school that can address poverty and human integration. “School capital development. Engagement with The gene-based hack that is revolution- "Well-timed, integration didn’t media is a catalyst for this mission. izing epidemiology well-crafted text fail. The only failure George Davey Smith messages to parents is that we stopped Nature, December 10, 2019 have led to an pursuing it and Every American family basically pays an increase in reading to allowed the reign of $8,000 ‘poll tax’ under the U.S. health This Nature article toddlers and a rise in segregation to system, top economists say weighs the benefits of Head Start return,” Johnson says. Angus Deaton Mendelian enrollment and The Washington Post, January 7, 2020 randomization, a attendance," shows novel approach that research from MIP Sure Start programme saved the NHS The Washington Posts helps distinguish network member millions of pounds, study finds highlights a causation from Ariel Kalil's Gabriella Conti and Rita Ginja forthcoming book by correlation. HI Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab. The Guardian, June 3, 2019 HI network member network member Angus Deaton and George Davey Smith, New research from HI Anne Case, on the who helped pioneer New research probes eviction’s causes network member future of capitalism. In the technique, urges and consequences Gabriella Conti and it, the authors argue scientists to use the tool with caution. “Every John Eric Humphries ECI/Markets network that America’s single method can be biased,” he told Nature. The Economist, August 24, 2019 member Rita Ginja health-care costs "are shows that the UK’s so far above what The Economist Sure Start program people pay in other How to Break the Poverty Cycle featured a new HCEO had major health countries that they are the equivalent of a hefty tax." James Heckman working paper on benefits for children The New York Times, November 27, 2019 evictions, and in poorer areas. "Sure whether they're Start children’s The Clash of Capitalisms The New York Times better thought of as centres delivered Branko Milanovic reference HCEO symptoms rather major health benefits for youngsters in the most Foreign Affairs, January/February 2020 Director James than triggers of deprived areas, reducing the number of people Heckman’s latest poverty, by MIP taken to hospital and delivering millions of pounds In an article for research on the Perry member John Eric in savings to the NHS," The Guardian notes. Foreign Affairs, MIP Preschool Project, Humphries and network member which found that co-authors. Branko Milanovic high-quality early asks what the future childhood education holds for Western can break the cycle of capitalist societies. poverty. “How much “The ineluctable good does a preschool truth is that experience offer children born in poverty? Enough capitalism is here to stay and has no

14 15 NOTABLE MEMBER AWARDS Accomplishments and Honors

HCEO Members were honored this Branko Milanovic Sharon Ramey Jason Fletcher year for their deep understanding of, Graduate Center, City University of New York Virginia Tech University of Wisconsin-Madison and cutting edge research into, the Member, Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, Member, Early Childhood Interventions Member, Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, issue of inequality around the world. and Policy October, 2019 and Policy November 14, 2019 May 8, 2019 ECI network member Sharon Donna Gilleskie MIP network member Branko Ramey was elected a 2019 MIP network member Jason University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Milanovic has been appointed American Association for the Fletcher was named to Vilas Member, Health Inequality and Identity & the honorary Maddison Chair Advancement of Science Distinguished Achievement Personality at the Faculty of Economics Fellow. The fellowship Professorship at the November 2019 and Business of the University “honors members whose University of Wisconsin- of Groningen."Branko efforts on behalf of the Madison. The award Donna Gilleskie, an HI/IP Milanovic is a pioneering advancement of science or its recognizes “distinguished network member, was elected scholar of global inequality, applications in service to society have scholarship as well as to the International and is a perfect fit to contribute to our research distinguished them among their peers and standout efforts in teaching and service.” Association of Applied program on economic development around the colleagues.” Econometrics. The IAAE is the world," said Professor of Economic History Herman leading academic association de Jong. for advancing and supporting James J. Heckman research in applied University of Chicago econometrics. Sian Beilock HCEO Director Barnard College September 30, 2019 Member, Identity and Personality Benjamin Golub October 29, 2019 HCEO Director James Harvard University Heckman received the Member, Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, IP network member Sian Friendship Award from the and Policy Beilock received a 2019 Chinese government. November, 2019 Psychonomic Society and Established in 1991, the Women in Cognitive Science Friendship Award is the In November 2019, it was Leadership Award. The WiCS highest honor issued by the announced that MIP network Leadership Award recognizes Chinese government to member Benjamin Golub would initiatives that scientists have foreign experts. Awardees are chosen for their be awarded the 6th Calvó- taken, “beyond their own outstanding contributions to China’s economic Armengol Prize in the spring of students and labs, to benefit women in cognitive and social progress. 2020. The prize is awarded every science.” two years to an economist or other social scientist under the age of 40, for their “contributions to the understanding of social structure and its implications for economic interactions.”

16 17 AMPLIFYING RESEARCH Website and Social Media Metrics

HCEO RESEARCH ON Twitter impressions since Jun 2018 SOCIAL MEDIA 120000 Visits by Top 10 Countries 2019 100000 HCEO disseminates the work of 80000 60000 its members through four media In addition to the website, HCEO maintains active 40000 Country Pageviews YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook feeds and uses 20000 channels: hceconomics.org, 0 Jan 2019 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. them to disseminate the work of HCEO members. United States 70,590 HCEO’s YouTube views, Facebook likes, and Twitter United Kingdom 7,756 followers continue to grow. Facebook reach since Jan 2018 HCECONOMICS.ORG AS A China 5,883 facebook.com/hceconomics 30000 GLOBAL RESOURCE Germany 4,738 25000 twitter.com/hceconomics 20000 Canada 3,474 15000 youtube.com/hceconomics 10000 The new HCEO website went live on November 14, India 3,248 5000 0 Jan 2019 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2013. This site has been completely redesigned Italy 2,866 from top to bottom to be easier to update and Russia 1,991 Facebook Likes: 1634 (19% growth) maintain, but more importantly, to share the work South Korea 1,957 YouTube minutes watched in 2019 of HCEO with a larger audience. Since launch, Spain 1,730 Twitter Followers: 2815 (63% growth) 25000 HCEO's website has had 667,246 pageviews and 20000 15000

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18 19 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS Fostering International Collaboration

As part of our mission to address Our summer school in Chengdu, which took opportunity equality worldwide, place at Southwestern University of Finance and HCEO partners with local and global Economics, received the most applicants to organizations to help expand the date. We look forward to holding our engagement of scholars. Through these second summer school in Chengdu partnerships, HCEO has been able to in 2020. HCEO returned to Moscow broaden the reach of our programs, in 2019 for our second SSSI program including our Summer School on co-organized with the New Economic Socioeconomic Inequality and the School. We also held our first summer Asian Family in Transition initiative. school for undergraduate students, at We look forward to continuing to Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, foster a spirit of collaboration with the which was co-organized by the Institute international academic community. for Economic and Social Research. This program included the 2019 Best Paper HCEO continues to partner with local and global Competition, where participants had organizations to help expand the engagement the opportunity to present their work of scholars, in turn building institutional before a panel of leading experts and relationships that lead to interdisciplinary and receive constructive feedback. We will international collaborations. Through these return to Guangzhou this summer to partnerships, HCEO has been able to broaden host our second summer program for the reach of our programs, including our undergraduates. In 2020, we also look Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality forward to returning to Bonn, Germany, series. We look forward to continuing to foster for our third SSSI co-organized and hosted a spirit of collaboration with the international by briq, which is led by IP network leader academic community. In 2019, we expanded our Armin Falk. network of collaborators with our conference on “Breastfeeding and the Origins of Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Priorities.” The conference was co-organized by HI network member Meghan Azad and Nathan Nickel and took place in Winnipeg, Canada.

SUMMER SCHOOLS ON SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY

In 2019, HCEO expanded our international collaborations by hosting our first SSSI programs in Chengdu, China and Bergen, Norway, at the Norwegian School of Economics.

20 21 ABOUT HCEO Our Vision

Founded in 2010, the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Steven N. Durlauf is the Group (HCEO) is a collaboration of 544 Steans Professor in researchers, educators, and policy makers Educational Policy at the focused on human capital development Harris School of Public Policy and its impact on opportunity at the University of Chicago. inequality. HCEO’s unique approach He is Associate Director of the enables collaboration among scholars Center for the Economics of with varying disciplines, approaches, Human Development, a perspectives, and fields. This means the Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the integration of biological, sociological, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a and psychological perspectives into Research Associate of the National Bureau of traditionally economic questions. Economic Research. For two years, he served as The result is innovative thinking and Program Director for the Economics Program of approaches to inequality and human the Santa Fe Institute. capital development research. Robert H. Dugger is the co-founder of ReadyNation, DIRECTORS the Managing Partner of Hanover Provident Capital, a James J. Heckman is a Nobel retired partner in the hedge Laureate and the Henry fund Tudor Investment Schultz Distinguished Service Corporation, and former board Professor of Economics at the chairman of Grumeti Reserves University of Chicago. He is Ltd., a Tanzanian wildlife conservation company also founder and director of whose tourism operations are managed by Singita the Center for the Economics and were ranked by Travel + Leisure magazine as of Human Development. He the best in the world in 2011 and 2012. has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, WHAT WE DO discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies The organization comprises six research networks for addressing those problems. His research that focus on the most pressing issues within human recognizes the diversity among people in skills, capital development and inequality. These networks family origins, peers, and preferences as well as produce one-of-a-kind conferences, research the diversity of institutions and regulations programs, publications, and education that highlight and the consequences of this diversity findings from the best science and the application of for analyzing and addressing social and best practices. Through its networks and inovative economic problems. research, HCEO plays a vital role in understanding and addressing opportunity inequality around the world.

22 23 A UNIQUE APPROACH WE PLAY A VITAL ROLE

o Welcomes all researchers regardless of o Income and opportunity inequality is a global Octavian Busuioc is the approach, school of thought, or discipline and growing problem Multimedia and Graphic o Networks are self-managed and self-governed o Governments, private think tanks, and others Design Director for the vs. driven by a single organizational agenda each look at only a portion of the total problem Human Capital and Economic o Supports and generates research without in hopes of finding a lasting solution Opportunity Global Working expectation of predetermined outcomes o Only HCEO integrates biological, sociological, Group. He leads the visual o Extends network membership well beyond and psychological perspectives into identity of the project economics to biological, sociological, and traditionally economic questions addressed by including maintenance of psychological perspectives multidisciplinary teams of experts HCEO’s website and the creation and innovation of o Encourages debate, discussion, and exchanges o Our approach treats social science research as print materials. He also manages technology for that result in better research outcomes an empirical endeavor, resulting in rigorously the group. He received a B.A. from the University tested public policy directions and solutions of Toronto in 2006 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in o Our members' research provides insights Philosophy from Queen’s University in 2007 and IMPACT and directions on how to best foster 2013 respectively. human flourishing and improve economic o Multidisciplinary networks result in new productivity Kerry Cardoza is the approaches to research and its application Communications and o Relationships with governments and policy Outreach Manager for the makers put best practices into action STAFF Human Capital and Economic o Influences numerous research studies and Opportunity Global Working governmental policies Alison Baulos is the Executive Group. She manages the o Findings are being directly applied in one of Director of the Center for the group’s social media channels Jennifer the largest populations in the world—China Economics of Human and disseminates members’ Pachon is the Development and oversees all research. Prior to joining HCEO, she wrote for the Program Manager for academic initiatives including Chicago Reader, Newcity and the Sun Times Academic Initiatives and the Human Capital and Network. She also spent four years as an advocate Publications for the Human Economic Opportunity Global and Case Manager for domestic violence survivors. Capital and Economic Working Group. She received a Cardoza has an M.S. in Journalism from Opportunity Global Working B.A. in Psychology and an A.M. in Social Service Northwestern University and a B.A. in English and Group. She led the creation Administration from the University of Chicago, Women’s Studies from Northeastern University. and launch of the original website and the and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s redesigned website and launched and now Booth School of Business. maintains HCEO’s working paper series. In addition, she oversees the newsletter and research efforts of the working group. She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, working on the philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.

24 25 LEADERSHIP AND NETWORKS Connecting Experts Across Fields

Early Childhood Interventions Identity and Personality The Early Childhood Interventions Network investigates The Identity and Personality Network studies the the early origins of inequality and its lifetime reciprocal relationship between individual differences consequences. and economic, social, and health outcomes.

Inequality: Measurement, Family Inequality Interpretation, & Policy The Family Inequality Network focuses on the The Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy interactions among family members to understand the Network studies policies designed to reduce inequality well-being of children and their parents. and boost individual flourishing.

Health Inequality Markets The Health Inequality Network unifies several disciplines The Markets Network investigates human capital into a comprehensive framework for understanding financing over the lifecycle. health disparities over the lifecycle. Network Leaders: Dean Corbae | Lance Lochner | Network Leaders: Christopher Kuzawa | Mariacristina De Nardi Burton Singer

26 27 MEMBERS NUMBER OF MEMBERS BY HCEO’s Interdisciplinary Composition DISCIPLINE AND NETWORK

HCEO currently consists of 544 HCEO’S INTERDISCIPLINARY members from institutions in 30 COMPOSITION countries. We connect experts across Early Childhood Interventions Family Inequality Health Inequality Identity and Personality Inequality: Measurement Interpretation &Policy Markets disciplines to advance innovative Although the majority of our members are thinking and approaches to inequality economists, we also have members from and human capital development psychology, health sciences, anthropology, and Biology 1 3 research, which are designed to improve philosophy among our number. Membership individual opportunity worldwide. in HCEO is by invitation from the network leaders who select researchers, educators, and Business 1 1 1 2 1 policymakers dedicated to the scientific principles HCEO’S INTERNATIONAL REACH of HCEO and who embrace the opportunities HCEO 74 52 16 26 129 101 provides to bridge boundaries between disciplines. Economics HCEO members work in 30 different countries across the globe. The diversity of perspectives 16 1 3 offered by an international membership helps to Education reinforce HCEO’s mission to integrate not only disparate academic approaches to the problems of Law 1 3 inequality and development, and also the distinct facets of those problems displayed in different countries. Mathematics 1 1 1

Medicine 2 14 1

Neuroscience 4 1 2

Philosophy 10

Political / Social Science 4 1 8

Psychology 29 1 29 6 544 Public Health 1 2 Members in 30 Public Policy 4 1 2 6 1 Countries Sociology 5 22

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