They Can Take It If They Want It—Eminent Domain
July 24, 2015
Wall Street Journal
By Edward Glaeser
Competition in the Age of Biosimilars
July 21, 2015
JAMA
By Amitabh Chandra and Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle (Precision Health Economics)
Here's how minority job seekers battle bias in the hiring process
July 21, 2015
The Conversation
By David S. Pedulla (UT Austin) and Devah Pager
Will Maine share in health reform's success?
July 21, 2015
Bangor Daily News
By Theda Skocpol
No, we're not arguing from the same facts. How can democracies make good decisions if citizens are misinformed?
July 21, 2015
Washington Post
By Jennifer Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein (Ph.D. '12)
Wealth and Finance in Post Civil-Rights America
July 18, 2015
Harlem Book Fair (C-SPAN2 Book TV) | Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07) of Yale University joined a panel with Dalton Conley (NYU), William Tabb (Professor Emeritus, Queens College and CUNY), and Damon Phillips (Columbia Business School)
Capitalism for the Rest of Us
July 17, 2015
The New York Times
By Joseph R. Blasi (Rutgers), Douglas L. Kruse (Rutgers), and Richard B. Freeman
How to Achieve Gender Equality in Pay
July 16, 2015
Milken Institute Review
By Claudia Goldin
Even Teachers are No Fans of Forced Union Payments
July 15, 2015
Wall Street Journal
By Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West (faculty, Ph.D. ’06)
Moving Up or Moving Out? Confronting Compounded Deprivation
July 15, 2015
NYU Furman Center
By Robert J. Sampson. With discussion by Richard Florida (U.S. HUD), Rosanne Haggerty (Community Solutions), and Michael Stoll (UCLA)
Immigration and America's Urban Revival
July 9, 2015
The American Prospect
By Robert J. Sampson
Private Conflict, Public Disorder, and Crime
July 2, 2015
Pacific Standard
Interview with Robert J. Sampson and Daniel O'Brien (Northeastern University) on the limitations of "broken windows" theory.
William Julius Wilson discusses “The Declining Significance of Race” on Voice of America’s Press Conference USA
July 2, 2015
Library of Congress
William Julius Wilson. Listen to interview ►
A Turning Point for Health Care—and its G.O.P. Opponents
June 25 2015
The New York Times
By Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs (University of Minnesota)
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Harvard finds merit in Boston schools' advanced-work classes
July 27, 2015
Boston Globe | Sarah Cohodes's (Ph.D. '15) research details benefits, especially for minority students. Read the study ►
Salary Gap Widens as Top Workers in Specialized Fields Reap Rewards
July 24, 2015
The New York Times | Lawrence Katz
The Housing Market Still Isn't Rational
July 24, 2015
The New York Times | Economic View column notes Edward Glaeser's work on real estate speculation in American history
10 top women in economics
July 23, 2015
World Economic Forum Agenda | Claudia Goldin
Why are so many people in U.S. prisons? Key findings from the National Research Council
July 22, 2015
Journalist's Resource | Brief summarizing findings of the 2014 National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Incarceration Rates in the United States, Vice-Chaired by Bruce Western.
The Teacher: Cassi Pittman. Professor, Case Western Reserve
July 22, 2015
Cleveland Scene | Cassi L. Pittman (Ph.D. '12) on the tough choices facing her native East Cleveland and the challenges of improving NE Ohio's urban core.
Donald Trump vs. The Republican Party: Who will be left standing?
July 21, 2015
CBC News | Theda Skocpol
The Physical Toll of High-Achievement Among Disadvantaged Teens
July 20, 2015
Huffington Post | Anthony A. Jack’s (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) research on the college experiences of low-income undergraduates noted. View this work ►
The Science of Teaching Gets High Marks
July 20, 2015
FiveThirtyEight | Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D '04)
Off the Shelf
July 19, 2015
Harvard Magazine
Recommends The Allure of Order, by Jal Mehta (faculty and Ph.D. '06), as "a sobering history of the 'troubled quest to remake American schooling' through attempts to impose external accountability on teaching—most recently, via the No Child Left Behind Act."
Immigration and crime: Not here to cause trouble
July 18, 2015
The Economist | Robert Sampson
You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?
July 16, 2015
The New York Times Magazine | Bruce Western
Obama Tries to End the Cycle of Broken Poverty Promises
July 15, 2015
Governing | James Quane, Associate Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Malcolm Wiener Center.
Who Will Pay the Political Price for Affordable Housing?
July 15, 2015
The New York Times | Quotes Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Robert Putnam, and refers to Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz research on effects of better neighborhoods on children.
Credit where taxes are due
July 4, 2015
The Economist | Cites Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04) on who benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change
White House Council of Economic Advisers (July 2015).
Draws on research by Inequality & Social Policy faculty and Ph.D. fellow alumni, including Deirdre Bloome (Ph.D. '14), Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15) David Deming (faculty, Ph.D. '10), Will Dobbie (Ph.D, '13), Roland Fryer, Edward Glaeser, Joshua Goodman, Lawrence Katz, Thomas J. Kane, Richard Murnane, Devah Pager, Robert Putnam, Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. '09), Bruce Western, Justin Wolfers (Ph.D, '01), and Jessica Wolpaw Reyes (Ph.D. '02).
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