Events

Price Fishback, Regents Professor and APS Professor of Economics, University of Arizona and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research will give a talk entitled "New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s". We show that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), from its inception in the 1930s, did not insure mortgages in low income urban neighborhoods where the vast majority of urban Black Americans lived. The agency evaluated neighborhoods using block-level information collected by New Deal reli...

The Medical Aid in Dying Act: Insights from the NYSBA Task Force Process RSVP for lunch Following the landmark signing of the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law by Governor Hochul on February 6, 2026, this presentation will explore the critical work of the New York State Bar Association's Task Force that helped shape its legal and ethical framework. Established in 2023 to provide a rigorous, multi-disciplinary review of end-of-life care, the Task Force’s recommendations were instrumental in developing the "guardrails" and implementation strategi...

Jake Blount will give a lunch talk - details forthcoming.