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Insight & analysis
Interview with Claudia Goldin
May 24, 2015
Econ Focus—Magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Claudia Goldin discusses women in the labor force, the "grand convergence", the human capital century, and her latest project, "Women Working Longer."
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Education reformers have it all wrong: Accountability from above never works; great teaching does
May 24, 2015
Salon | By Jal Mehta (Faculty, PhD '06)
Comeback Cities
May 21, 2015
Centre for Cities (London) | Edward Glaeser lecture and discussion with BBC Newsnight economics correspondent Duncan Weldon. Audio and slides available; event video to be posted soon.
What makes field organizers effective? Being like the people they want to persuade
May 21, 2015
Washington Post | Ryan Enos's co-author, Eitan Hersh of Yale University, discusses their findings.
Why should we care about inequality?
May 21, 2015
2015 Social and Economic Policy Public Lecture, University of Wollongong | By Andrew Leigh MP, Australia (Ph.D. '04)
The Great Gatsby Curve: All heat, no light
May 20, 2015
Brookings Institution—Social Mobility Memos | By Scott Winship. Second of a series of memos on both sides of the "The Great Gatsby Curve" debate, including pieces by Alan Krueger (Princeton University) and Heather Boushey (Washington Center for Equitable Growth).
Big moment for working parents
May 19, 2015
MetroWest Daily News | By Jamie Eldridge (MA state senator, D-Acton) and Laura Tach (Ph.D. '10). Op-ed urging increase in the state's Earned Income Tax Credit.
Whose Fault is Ferguson? The Roots of Our National Discord
May 18, 2015
Miller Center American Forum | Speaker: Orlando Patterson. Television broadcast: June 7th on many PBS stations (Note: Not carried in Boston-area). Audio and video also will be made available on the Miller Center website.
Wells Report Distorts Workplace Realities
May 18, 2015
Boston Globe | By Theda Skocpol
#Deflategate #BecauseSociology #BecauseAffrontTo-FoundingFathers
Income Inequality in the U.S. [video]
May 18, 2015
Washington Journal (C-SPAN) | Guests Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09) and Michael Konczal (Roosevelt Institute)
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Obamacare's Big Gamble on Hospital Productivity
May 25, 2015
New York Times | Amitabh Chandra
Will Medicare and Medicaid predict Obamacare's future?
May 23, 2015
Modern Healthcare |
Theda Skocpol
Left Out
May 21, 2015
Boston Review | Robert Putnam. Claude S. Fischer reviews Robert Putnam's Our Kids and Andrew Cherlin's Labor's Love Lost.
My Head Start
May 19, 2015
Huffington Post | On the 50th anniversary of Head Start, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker reflects on his own personal experience and cites research by David Deming (Faculty and Ph.D. '10)
The best indication of what a federal $12 minimum wage could mean for poor places comes from Puerto Rico
May 19, 2015
Washington Post | Richard Freeman
Modern campaigning has big effects on voter turnout
May 18, 2015
Washington Post | Ryan Enos
China's Great Academic Leap Forward
May 18, 2015
Bloomberg View | Richard Freeman and Wei Huang (Ph.D. candidate in Economics)
Improving the legal status of our country's newest arrivals is not only humane but smart, says sociologist
May 18, 2015
Phys.org | Helen Marrow (Ph.D. '07)
Askwith Forum [video]: Transforming Teaching
May 11, 2015
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jal Mehta (Faculty and Ph.D. '06) led an Askwith Forum discussion with Anthony Bryk (President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), Jeff Duncan-Andrade (Co-founder, Teaching Excellence Network), and Randi Weingarten (President, American Federation of Teachers).
When Campaign Volunteers Do More Harm than Good
May 11, 2015
Pacific Standard | Ryan Enos
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