Spring 2018

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Join us for a discussion with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez about his new book...

Gabriel Zucman, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley By exploiting new macroeconomic data published by tax havens in a systematic manner, we estimate that 40% of the global profits of multinational companies are artificially shifted to low-tax...

Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race, and...

John N. Friedman, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University. Abstract. Researchers have proposed many policies to address dramatic gaps in long-term economic outcomes across children from different backgrounds, but most such suggestions typically...

Jennifer S. Lerner, Professor of Public Policy and Decision Science, Harvard Kennedy School. Co-founder of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory. Recent research on emotion has revealed that specific emotions are potent, pervasive, and predictable...

Nathaniel Hendren, Professor of Economics, Harvard University. We study the sources of racial and ethnic disparities in income using de-identified longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population from 1989-2015. We document three sets of...

Anthony Abraham Jack, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Shutzer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Through major financial aid...

Susanna Loeb, Barnett Family Professor of Education and Faculty Director of CEPA Labs, Stanford University. Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Seminar Series, Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Harvard...

Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. In twin 1998 decisions, the Supreme Court supported anti-harassment training and harassment grievance procedures. Corporations embraced both programs, but surveys suggest that workplace harassment...

Maya Sen, Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Political scientist Maya Sen will present research from her forthcoming book, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, co-authored with Avidit Acharya (Stanford University) and Matthew...