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Thad Williamson (Ph.D. '04) is leading a comprehensive poverty-reduction effort for Richmond, Virginia, as the first director of the Mayor's Office of Community Wealth Building.

Former Inequality and...

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The Truly Disadvantaged After 25 Years


Revisiting a groundbreaking book with its author,
William Julius Wilson

A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event
September 14, 2012, at Harvard University.

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Some child, left behind?

January 13, 2015

Harvard Gazette | Martin R. West (Faculty, Ph.D. '06)

Chaddha, Anmol, and William Julius Wilson. 2011. “'Way Down in the Hole': Systemic Urban Inequality and The Wire.” Critical Inquiry 38 (1): 164-188. Publisher's Version
Chaddha, Anmol, and William Julius Wilson. 2011. “The Wire's Impact: A Rejoinder.” Critical Inquiry 38 (1): 227-233. Publisher's Version
Chaddha, Anmol, and William Julius Wilson. 2008. “Reconsidering the 'Ghetto'.” City & Community 7 (4): 384-388. Publisher's Version
Wilson, William Julius, and Anmol Chaddha. 2009. “The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research.” Ethnography 10 (4): 549-564. Publisher's Version



No, The Decline in Marriage Did Not Increase Inequality

January 16, 2015

The New Republic | Bruce Western, William Julius Wilson

2015 Feb 02

Tyler VanderWeele: On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables

12:00pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room

Tyler VanderWeele, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.


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2015 Feb 09

(CANCELED) Hanming Fang: Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence

12:00pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room

Canceled due to snow conditions. Will be rescheduled at a later date.

Hanming Fang, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.

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