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By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stansbury. Senator Rubio raises an important issue, Summers and Stansbury write, but they disagree with the diagnosis. Anna Stansbury is a Stone PhD Scholar and PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard.

PNAS | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, and Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Washington Monthly | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. Because some places are doing well while others are not, we tend to assume that disparities are largely a local problem, writes Robert Manduca. But if national income inequality in the US is largely responsible for the growing economic dispartity between its regions, as Manduca's research suggests, fixing struggling regions will require a different set of policies.

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Washington Post | By Rebecca Goldstein, Michael Sances, and Hye Young You PhD 2014. Based on the authors' research, "Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service," forthcoming in Urban Affairs Review.

Rebecca Goldstein is a PhD candidate in Government and a Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Scholar in Poverty and Justice. Hye Young You received her PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard and is now Assistant Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.

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