Social Forces | New research by Harvard's Devah Pager and collaborators  Jennifer Hickes Lundquist and Eiko Strader provides one of the first systematic assessments of workplace performance by those with criminal records. Examining military employment records, they find that, overall, the military's screening process can result in successful employment outcomes for those with felony convictions. An important question, they write, is whether the military's 'whole person' review can apply succssfully to the civilian sector. Pager is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard.

Brookings Institution | Brigitte Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at Harvard Kennedy School, presented research from a new working paper (joint with John Beshears, James Choi, Mark Iwry, David C. John, and David Laibson) at a Brookings Retirement Security Project event.
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Harvard Business Review | By Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Arnfinn H. Midtboen, and Ole Hexel. Devah Pager, Director of the Inequality & Social Policy program, is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. Read the authors' orignal study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Boston Area Research Initiative | In a recent paper, BARI Co-Directors Dan O’Brien and Chris Winship demonstrated the presence and persistence of ‘‘problem properties’’ with elevated levels of crime and disorder in Boston. Importantly, they find that this additional geographic detail offers a wealth of information beyond the traditional focus on at-risk neighborhoods, and even the more recent attention to hotspot street segments. (Continue reading)

Chris Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. The paper was published in a special issue of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology on the Law of Concentration of Crime. 
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