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​Americans with criminal records may outperform on the job

May 9, 2016

CBS Money Watch  | Features new research by Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, and Jennifer Lundquist and  Eiko Strader (both of UMass Amherst).



¿Cuánto más podrías ganar en tu vida adulta por haber tenido un buen maestro de primaria?

October 12, 2015

La Nación (Argentina) | Interview with Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D. '04, now Columbia Business School)



« L’objectif de mes recherches est d’améliorer la conception des politiques fiscales »

May 13, 2019

Le Monde | Stefanie Stantcheva, lauréate de l’édition 2019 du Prix du meilleur jeune économiste, explique les effets des réformes de l’impôt.



Your Rabbi? Probably a Democrat. Your Baptist Pastor? Probably a Republican. Your Priest? Who Knows.

June 12, 2017

The New York Times | Delves into a new dataset by Yale political scientist Eitan Hersh and Harvard's Gabrielle Malina, a PhD candidate in Government & Social Policy, "the largest compilation of American religious leaders ever assembled," the Times reports. The data reveal an American clergy sharply divided along political lines, even more so than congregants in their denomination.
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Your boss wants to control your vote: The real reason to fear corporate power

June 7, 2015

Salon | Discussion of findings by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) on political mobilization of employees.



Young men falling to the bottom of the income ladder

May 22, 2017

Boston Globe | Quotes Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics: "People from elite colleges moving to Wall Street and top law firms and to tech companies are doing perfectly fine. In fact, they're doing much better than comparable people in their parents' generation," Katz said. "But for the typical young man, they're donig substantially worse economically than their father."



Young Black People Are Radically Reimagining What Political Activism Can Be

March 1, 2016

The New York Times | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Part of a Room for Debate forum: "Making Black Voices Matter."



You're not going to get accepted into a top university on merit alone

December 13, 2017

The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University and the author of The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016).



You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?

July 16, 2015

The New York Times Magazine | Bruce Western



Yes, the Rich Have Become Poorer Since the Recession Started

February 24, 2015

Economics 21| By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)

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