Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Nathan Wilmers and Clem Aeppli. Nathan Wilmers, PhD 2018 in Sociology, is the Sarofim Family Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organizations at MIT Sloan School of Management. Clem Aeepli is a PhD candidate in Sociology and a Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies | By Alix Winter (PhD 2019) and Robert J. Sampson. Alix Winter received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard in 2019 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) at Columbia University. Robert Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.
Atlantic | A new analysis by Christopher Wimer PhD 2007, Sophie Collyer, and Xavier Jaravel suggests not only that rising prices have been quietly taxing low-income families more heavily than rich ones, but also that, after accounting for that trend, the American poverty rate is significantly higher than the official measures suggest.
Wimer received his PhD in Sociology & Social Policy from Harvard in 2007 and is now Co-Director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy (CPSP) at Columbia University. Xavier Jaravel received his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard in 2016 and is now Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Jaravel's research on inflation inequality—showing that prices have risen more quickly for people at the bottom of the income distribution than for those at the top—which informs their analysis of the poverty rate, appears in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2019).
LSE American Politics and Policy | A look at Michael Hankinson's American Political Science Review article, co-authored with Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (Boston University), on self-interest, NIMBYism, and the opioids crisis. Michael Hankinson received his PhD in Government & Social Policy in 2017. Their research appears in the Nov 2019 issue of APSR.
Kellogg Insights | A presidential assassination brought the trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt to power. The episode offers lessons for today’s antitrust regulators. Based on the research of Carola Frydman (PhD 2006) and colleagues Richard Baker and Eric Hilt. Frydman is Professor of Finance in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwester University.
The Hamilton Project | By Will Dobbie (PhD 2013) and Crystal S. Yang (PhD 2013). Will Dobbie is now Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Crystal S. Yang is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Elisabeth Jacobs PhD 2008, Senior Director for Family Economic Security, Washington Center for Economic Growth.
Brookings Institution | By Nora Gordon (PhD '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University. How a number of new studies on race disparities in student discipline inform the current policy debate.
Brookings Institution | By Alicia Sasser Modestino (PhD '01), Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics at Northeastern University. Modestino is Associate Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.