CSDE Seminar: Heterogeneous Neighborhood Effects on Young Adult Educational Outcomes
Posted: 4/30/2023 (CSDE Seminar Series)
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This week’s seminar speaker Dr. George Galster (Wayne State University) will lecture on “Heterogeneous Neighborhood Effects on Young Adult Educational Outcomes.” Dr. Galster’s research uses longitudinal register data from Oslo, Norway, to examine how cumulative childhood exposures to family and neighborhood contexts influence the educational attainments of young adults, paying special attention to how these determinants vary by gender and immigrant status.
George Galster Biography
Dr. Galster is the Clarence Hillberry Professor of Urban Affairs and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University. Dr. Galster provides a wealth of experience in academic, governmental, non-profit, and for-profit circles, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has held positions at the Universities of: Harvard, Cal-Berkeley, North Carolina, Amsterdam, Delft, Glasgow, Mannheim, Western Sydney and The College of Wooster. He served as Director of Housing Research at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC before coming to Wayne State University in 1996. Dr. Galster has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U. S. Department of Justice, numerous municipalities, community organizations, civil rights groups, and organizations like the National Association of Realtors, American Bankers Association, and Fannie Mae. He has served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, National Academy of Science review committees, and numerous other leadership positions in community service. Public officials in Australia, Canada, China, France, Scotland, and the U.S. have sought his housing and urban policy consultations. Dr. Galster research examines metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, neighborhood effects, and urban poverty. His nine authored, co-authored, and edited books include Homeowners and Neighborhood Reinvestment, 1987; The Maze of Urban Housing Markets, 1991; The Metropolis in Black and White, 1992; Reality and Research: Social Science and American Urban Policy since 1960, 1996; Why NOT in My Back Yard?: The Neighborhood Impacts of Assisted Housing, 2003; Life in Poverty Neighborhoods, 2005; Frontiers of Quantifying Neighborhood Effects, 2008; Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City, 2012 and Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, forthcoming 2019.
Date: 05/05/2023
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Deadline: 05/05/2023
Location: 101 Hans Rosling Center