Commentary and analysis

How Changing Rent Subsidies Could Impact D.C.

How Changing Rent Subsidies Could Impact D.C.

July 20, 2016

WAMU—The Kojo Nnamdi Show | Eva Rosen (Ph.D. '14) and Adrianne Todman, Executive Director of the D.C. Housing Authority, guest to discuss how a proposed change to HUD's method of calculating housing subsidies to better reflect local housing costs could affect neighborhoods and upward mobility for families in the D.C. area. Rosen is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Read more about Rosen's work at evarosen.org.

A Family-Friendly Policy that's Friendliest to Male Professors

A Family-Friendly Policy that's Friendliest to Male Professors

June 24, 2016

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), University of Michigan. "Economics remains a male-dominated field, and the research shows that policies fueled by the best intentions of universities have made an imbalance worse," writes Wolfers. "Three female economists have shown that the tools of economics...suggest that a more nuanced policy would lead to better outcomes. It leaves me wondering how many other policy mistakes we could avoid, if only we had more female economists."

'Brexit' Hits U.S. Stock Market Harder than an Election

'Brexit' Hits U.S. Stock Market Harder than an Election

June 24, 2016

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), University of Michigan. "While market reactions are surely neither as rational nor as carefully calibrated as the theory suggests, at least they provide a useful quantification of the conventional wisdom. And that conventional wisdom seems to be that Britain’s exit from the European Union will lead to economic disruption that will echo across the Atlantic."

Stagnationists are Simply Wrong

Stagnationists are Simply Wrong

June 16, 2016

Forbes | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09), Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

When it comes to subprime lending, both race and space matter

When it comes to subprime lending, both race and space matter

June 14, 2016

Work in Progress | By Jackelyn Hwang (Ph.D. '15, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University) , Michael Hankinson (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy), and Kreg Steven Brown (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology).  A summary of the authors' research on "Racial and Spatial Targeting", which originally appeared in the journal Social Forces. Work in Progress is a public sociology blog of the American Sociological Association, dedicated to 'short-form sociology' on the economy, work, and inequality.

Anthony Jack: A New Voice for Diversity in Higher Ed

Anthony Jack: A New Voice for Diversity in Higher Ed

June 7, 2016

Harvard Alumni for Education (HAEd| Interview with Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. '16), now Harvard Society of Fellows. "What I’m showing is that two students who come from similar backgrounds are experiencing college so differently. Why? And what are colleges doing to magnify those differences? Because the whole story is not just differences between the middle class and the working class. There are differences between those who have access to a middle class way of life and those who do not."