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Why Some Federal Agencies Panic This Time of Year

September 24, 2014

National Public Radio: Morning Edition | Jeffrey Liebman



Why Some Policy Experts Question Clinton's Plan to Contain Drug Costs

September 22, 2015

The New York Times | Amitabh Chandra



Why spreading profits and capital ownership is the best way to reduce income inequality in America

July 28, 2015

Scholars Strategy Network | By Joseph R. Blasi, Douglas L. Kruse (Rutgers), and Richard B. Freeman



Why the Economic Fates of America's Cities Diverged

November 28, 2015

The Atlantic | Highlights research by Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now Harvard Kennedy School faculty) and Peter Ganong (Harvard Ph.D. candidate in Economics) on the importance of regional income convergence in reducing U.S. wage inequality between 1940-1980 and explanations for declining convergence in recent decades.



Why the GOP loses if the Obamacare lawsuit wins

June 1, 2015

Washington Post | Political analysis highlights observations made by Theda Skocpol.



Why the New Research on Mobility Matters: An Economist's View

May 4, 2015

New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01). Discussion of new findings by economics professors Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz. Raj Chetty first presented these results in the Malcolm Wiener Seminar, Jan 26, 2015.



Why these summer jobs will matter for high schoolers

May 8, 2015

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



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 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.

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