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Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer

May 19, 2016


The New York Review of Books
By Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy. Jencks digs into the data to review $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Jencks examines the evidence for how the poor and the poorest of the poor have fared since the late-1960s, concluding that since 1999 "inequality has risen even among the poor."



Why these summer jobs will matter for high schoolers

May 8, 2015

CNBC | Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01)



Why Trump is Doomed with Black Voters

April 8, 2016

The Atlantic | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.



Why Trump's New Immigration Bill Makes Sense

August 4, 2017

Politico | By George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Why U.S. Conservatives Shape Legislation across the Fifty States Much More Effectively than Liberals

April 7, 2015

Scholars Strategy Network | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) and Theda Skocpol



Why Voter Turnout is So Low in the United States

October 17, 2019

Jacobin | An interview with Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr Professor of History and Social Policy and the author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States.



Why We Don’t Value Flextime Enough

March 3, 2017

Wall Street Journal | By Ray Fisman (Boston University) and Michael Luca (Harvard Business School). Most American workers won’t trade less pay for a more flexible schedule, but they’re underestimating the role of free time in personal happiness, Fisman and Luca write. Among the research discussed in this article, a recent study by Alexandre Mas (Princeton University) and Amanda Pallais (Harvard Economics), "Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements."
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Why What You Learned in Preschool is Essential at Work

October 16, 2015

The New York Times | Discussion of new work by David Deming (faculty and Ph.D. '10) on the importance of social skills in the labor market. He first presented this work in the Inequality Seminar earlier this month.



Why White House Economists Worry About Land-Use Regulations

November 20, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Delves into papers by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '05, now Federal Reserve Board of Governors) and by Peter Ganong (a Harvard Ph.D. candidate in Economics) and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS faculty), which CEA Chair Jason Furman highlighted in a recent address on the links between land-use regulations, wages, inequality, and intergenerational mobility.



Why white people see black boys like Tamir Rice as older, bigger, and guiltier than they really are

December 28, 2015

Washington Post | Details findings of study by Phillip Atiba Goff, visiting scholar in the Malcolm Wiener Center. View the research, "The Essence of Innocence: the Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children," published by the American Psychological Association. Goff presented this work in the Inequality Seminar in spring 2014.

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