Harvard Business Review | By Erling Barth, Claudia Goldin, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Claudia Olivetti. The authors of two recent studies discuss what they have earned about how men's and women's earnings evolve over their careers and the mechanisms that drive the growth of the gender-earnings gap. Claudia Goldin is Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard. View the research
Microeconomic Insights | By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. "How much of the earnings gap between men and women is because the latter choose jobs and occupations that enable flexibility in their work, predictability in their hours and bounds on their work schedule?," ask Harvard economics professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. Here they summarize their recent article by the same title, pubilshed in 2016 in the Journal of Labor Economics. View the research
Microeconomic Insights | By Ufak Akcigit (University of Chicago), Salome Baslandze (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance), and Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University). The authors summarize the findings from their recent American Economic Review article, "Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors." Stantcheva is Associate Professor of Economics (effective 7/1) at Harvard. View the research
EconoFact | By David Deming, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Annual Review of Sociology | By Alexandra Killewald, Fabian T. Pfeffer, and Jared Schachner. Alexandra Killewald is Professor of Sociology at Harvard. Jared Schachner is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy.
Harvard Business Review | By John Van Reenen (MIT) and Christina Patterson (MIT). Discussion of their new working paper, co-authored with David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich), and Lawrence Katz (Harvard), "The Fall of Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms." View the research
Harvard Business Review | By Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais. Harvard economist Amanda Pallais and co-authors discuss the findings of their latest research on marriage market incentives and labor market investments, forthcoming in the American Economic Review: "Many schooling and initial career decisions, such as whether to take advanced math in high school, major in engineering, or become an entrepreneur, occur early in life, when most women are single. These decisions can have labor market consequences with long-lasting effects," they write. View the research
Brookings Institution | By Shaun M. Dougherty, Joshua S. Goodman, Darryl V. Hill, Erica Litke, and Lindsay C. Page. Joshua Goodman is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
The Hamilton Project | A policy forum held at the Brookings Institution. The forum began with introductory remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, followed by three roundtable discussions. Papers by David J. Deming (PhD '10) and by Tara E. Watson (PhD '03) and Adam Looney (PhD'04) were the focus of two of the roundtables. View event video and dowload papers, full transcript, and presentation slides from the event webpage.
David Deming is Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Tara Watson is Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College and served in the U.S. Treasury Department from 2015-2016 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis. Adam Looney is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and served in the U.S. Treasury Department from 2013-2017 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis.
The Hamilton Project | A policy proposal by David J. Deming (PhD '10), Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE; and Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
