Join Vital City, NYU Wagner and the Russell Sage Foundation on Monday, April 27, for a conversation between New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and sociologist Robert Sampson (Harvard University) about Sampson’s new book, Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans.

Many people believe that individual character determines outcomes. But new research challenges this idea. In a three-decade study of over 1,000 Chicago children, sociologist and Vital City contributor Robert J. Sampson finds that the era into which you're born matters as much as who your parents are. Children born a decade apart — from identical backgrounds and neighborhoods — experience dramatically different life trajectories. 

Featuring remarks from:

Polly Trottenberg, Dean, NYU Wagner

Elizabeth Glazer, Founder and Co-Editor, Vital City

Bruce Western, President, Russell Sage Foundation

Monday, April 27 | 5:00 PM doors, 5:45 PM program 

NYU Wagner Main Event Space, 105 E 17th St, New York, NY

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