Episodes

  • Robert Michael on collecting specialized data to inform public policy

    Robert Michael on collecting specialized data to inform public policy
    Apr 22 2024
    Robert T. Michael, the Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, joins the podcast to discuss his path to the University of Chicago, why he loves teaching, and the challenges of collecting vital data on sensitive topics like human sexual behavior. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-04/027-TWGO-Michael_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-michael-2024
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    30 mins
  • Barry Chiswick on immigration, the American Jewish experience, and how to measure discrimination

    Barry Chiswick on immigration, the American Jewish experience, and how to measure discrimination
    Apr 1 2024
    Barry Chiswick, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University, joins the podcast to discuss his wealth of research on immigration and what he learned studying Jewish Americans in the labor market. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-03/026-TWGO-Chiswick_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/barry-chiswick-2024
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    29 mins
  • Robert Flanagan on boosting union membership and why orchestras struggle financially

    Robert Flanagan on boosting union membership and why orchestras struggle financially
    Mar 18 2024
    Robert Flanagan, the Matsushita Professor of International Labor Economics and Policy Analysis Emeritus at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, joins the podcast to discuss what he’s learned both studying and working for unions, how his time in a musician’s union inspired him to research financial difficulties in the performing arts, and more. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-03/025-TWGO-Flanagan_transcript-edit2.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-flanagan-2024
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    24 mins
  • Bob Gregory on how polio changed his life–and inspired him as a student

    Bob Gregory on how polio changed his life–and inspired him as a student
    Mar 4 2024
    Bob Gregory, Professor Emeritus at the Research School of Economics at Australian National University, joins the podcast to discuss how getting polio at fourteen years old affected his life trajectory, why he fell in love with economics, and his many contributions as a public servant. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/024-TWGO-Gregory_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/bob-gregory-2024
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    33 mins
  • Stephen Nickell on his journey from math teacher to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee

    Stephen Nickell on his journey from math teacher to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee
    Feb 19 2024
    Sir Stephen John Nickell, Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, joins the podcast to discuss his many mentors at the London School of Economics, how an invite to meet Gordon Brown in Aspen helped put a labor economist on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, and his lasting impact on the field of labor economics and economic policy in the UK. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/023-TWGO-Nickell_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/stephen-nickell-2024
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    39 mins
  • Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics

    Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics
    Feb 5 2024
    Robert Willis, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Michigan, joins the podcast to discuss his time as a seaman working the Washington State Ferries, his path to economics, and the origins of the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/022-TWGO-Willis_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-willis-2024
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    35 mins
  • Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family

    Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family
    Dec 4 2023
    Robert Pollak, the Hernreich Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Washington University in St. Louis, joins the podcast to discuss his work modeling economic decisions and bargaining within families and how he and his wife, an English professor and American poetry scholar, navigated the “two career problem.” Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/021-TWGO-Pollak_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-pollak-2023
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    29 mins
  • Bruno Contini on life under Mussolini and the Italian labor market today

    Bruno Contini on life under Mussolini and the Italian labor market today
    Nov 20 2023
    Bruno Contini, Professor Emeritus of the University of Turin and Honorary Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, joins the podcast to discuss his childhood under fascism, his experience studying and teaching in the United States, and his expertise on Italian labor markets. Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-11/020-TWGO-Contini_transcript.pdf For more details on this episode, visit:https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/bruno-contini-2023
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    28 mins