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First Generation? Second? For immigrants and their children, a question with meaning

January 6, 2016

Public Radio International [audio and transcript] | Van C. Tran (Ph.D. '11, now Columbia University) offers insights from his research on post-1965 immigrants and their children.

How Donald Trump took the Republican Party by Storm

December 15, 2015

CNN | Cites earlier findings (Perspectives on Politics 2011) of Theda Skocpol, Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now Brookings Institution), and John Coggin that immigration was almost as much of a motivating force for tea party voters as deficits and spending.

The American Middle Class Meltdown

December 14, 2015

NPR's On Point | Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08, now Washington Center for Equitable Growth) guests, along with Rakesh Kochhar (Pew Research Center), Tyler Cowen (George Mason), and Jacob Hacker (Yale University).

Columbia study of Amsterdam Avenue finds evidence of hyper-gentrification

December 13, 2015

Columbia Spectator | Profiles gentrification research by Van C. Tran (Ph.D. '11, now Columbia University)

Who will be able to afford college in a decade?

December 10, 2015

Washington Post | Highlights growing gaps in college attainment by family income and new work by Lindsay C. Page (University of Pittsburgh) and Judith Scott Clayton (Ph.D. '09, now Columbia TC) on improving college access.

Inspiring Memoirs Tell Journey From Child Farm Worker to Academic

December 7, 2015

NBC News | Tomás Jiménez (Ph.D. '05, now Stanford University), talks about his father's influence on his childhood and his own scholarly work in this feature profile of his father, Professor Francisco Jiménez of Santa Clara University. Francisco Jiménez has recently published a fourth volume in an award-winning series of memoirs for young readers.

Can America Learn from Australia's Gun Laws?

December 5, 2015

BBC World Service [transcript] | Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04) guests. Leigh analyzed the effects of Australia's gun laws in a 2010 paper, written when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University. He's now a member of the Australian Parliament.

The window tax—an open and shut case

December 4, 2015

Financial Times | Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04) research on Australia's "baby bonus" noted in an article about the ways in which people adjust behavior to avoid taxes.

How a Conservative-Led Australia Ended Mass Killings

December 4, 2015

The New York Times | Delves into 2010 study by Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04), which estimated that gun suicides per 100,000 people fell 65 percent, and the rate of gun homicides 59 percent, in the decade following Australia's adoption of a national gun control agreement. At the time of the study, Leigh was a professor of economics at Australian National University. He is now a Labor MP in Australia's Parliament.

Standardized testing works, depending on where you went to school

December 2, 2015

Boston Globe | David Deming (Ph.D. '10, now faculty) discusses results from a new study, , which presents the first evidence of the influence of test-based accountability measures on long-term student outcomes. Co-authored with Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15, now Columbia TC), Jennifer Jennings (NYU), and Christopher Jencks, the study appears in the winter 2016 issue of Education Next.

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