How Location Affects Economic and Educational Prospects

June 7, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | Analyzing data on more than 100,000 Japanese- Americans interned during World War II, HKS Assistant Professor Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11) and co-author Nicholas Carollo (UCLA) provide new evidence on the causal effect of place. They find that camp assignment had large and lasting effects on long-term locations, on individual economic outcomes, and on economic outcomes in subsequent generations.
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Wicked Smart: Massachusetts's Efforts to Turn Around a Failing School District

June 1, 2016

Chicago Policy Review | Delves into recent study by Beth E. Schueler (Ph.D. '16), Joshua S. Goodman, and David J. Deming. Read the original research, "Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts," NBER Working Paper.

Curbing Our Enthusiasm Over Rising Home Prices

June 1, 2016

Bloomberg View | Cites study by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, Assistant Professor of Public Policy) that links rising housing prices in wealthy areas to income divergence across regions of the U.S.

Grass-Roots Anticorruption Drive Puts Heat on Mexican Lawmakers

May 28, 2016

The New York Times | Quotes Viridiana Rios (Ph.D. '13), a Mexico Institute Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. See also Rios's earlier Wilson Center interview, "Mexico's Battle Against Corruption," conducted in April 2016 [video: 7:43 minutes].

How America Lost its Mojo

May 27, 2016

The Atlantic | Americans are less likely to switch jobs, move to another state, or create new companies than they were 30 years ago (or 100 years ago). What’s going on? Cites research by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '06, now a senior economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and colleagues (See their BPEA paper). Also cites research by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now Assistant Professor, HKS) linking rising housing prices in wealthy areas to declining income convergence (See their paper).

The Mortgage Interest Deduction Undermines American Schools

May 26, 2016

U.S. News & World Report | Op-ed cites new research by Ann Owens (Ph.D. '12) of USC, which shows that increases in residential income segregation in recent decades have been driven by high-income parents opting to purchase homes in particular neighborhoods with good schools. (View the study in ASR)

FEC Deadlocks Over Employee Political Coercion

May 25, 2016

The American Prospect | Cites findings of Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy '16.

Fewer Americans Strike Out for New Jobs, Crimping the Recovery

May 24, 2016

The New York Times | Discusses new analysis co-authored by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '05), now a senior economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, which documents a clear trend of declining fluidity in the labor market and examines possible explanations. The paper, forthcoming in Brookings Papers in Economic Activity, is co-authored by Christopher L. Smith, Riccardo Trezzi, and Abigail Wozniak. (View the paper)

Neighborhoods Can Shape Success—Down to the Level of a City Block

May 23, 2016

The Atlantic | A small but intriguing study done in West Philadelphia points to the importance of what researchers call microenvironments. Features Laura Tach (Ph. '10) of Cornell University, lead author of the study. Also cites work of Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren and Lawrence Katz.

Not Leaving, Just Changing Jobs

May 23, 2016

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government. With this issue, Peterson passes leadership of the journal Education Next to Martin West (Ph.D. 06), Associate Professor of Education, who will now serve as editor-in-chief. Peterson will continue to serve as senior editor for the publication, which he and collaborators launched 17-years ago.

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