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Historical Method and the Noble Lie

October 23, 2015

Boston Review | Michael Javen Fortner (Ph.D. '10) responds to "Who's to Blame for Mass Incarceration?," Donna Murch's review of his new book, Black Silent Majority, published by Harvard University Press in September.




Employer Political Coercion: A Growing Threat

November 23, 2015

The American Prospect | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy. Appears in fall 2015 print edition. 




Study: Food stamps do much more to fight poverty than we thought

October 27, 2015

Vox | Situates findings as part of broader trend to reexamine results of the War on Poverty and the social safety net, including recent analyses by Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07) and by Christopher Jencks.



When Does Accountability Work?

October 27, 2015

Education Next | By David Deming (Faculty, Ph.D. '10), Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15, now Columbia), Jennifer Jennings (NYU), and Christopher Jencks



The most important debate in immigration economics right now, explained

October 21, 2015

Vox | Discusses reanalysis by George Borjas of the effects of the 1980 Mariel boatlift on Miami-area wages.



Changes in Substance Abuse Treatment Use Among Individuals With Opioid Use Disorders in the United States, 2004-2013

October 13, 2015

JAMA (Research Letter) | By Brendan Saloner (Ph.D. '12, now a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and Shankar Karthikeyan (also Bloomberg School of Public Health).



The Siren Song of the Flat Tax

October 21, 2015

Morning Consult | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15) and Andrea Campbell (MIT)



Police Killings of Blacks: Here is What the Data Say

October 16, 2015

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan



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.



Brendan Saloner named National Academy of Medicine Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics

October 19, 2015

Awardee Brendan Saloner (Ph.D '12)

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