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Desmond Ang

Assistant Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Applied economics. Intersection of race, education and government. Educational and political ramifications of acts of police violence. Effects of federal election oversight on minority turnout and political polarization.

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David T. Ellwood

Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor


Research interests: Economist. Poverty and welfare, economic mobility. Labor economics, family change, low pay and unemployment, changing structure of American families.

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David J. Deming

Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE


Research interests: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.

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Daniel Schneider

Professor of Public Policy and of Sociology
Co-Director of The Shift Project


Research interests: Sociologist. Social demography, inequality, and the family. The role of economic resources in entry into marriage and cohabitation; the effects of the Great Recession on relationship quality, union dissolution, and fertility; how precarious and unpredictable employment affects family life.

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The Shift Project



Dani Rodrik

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Co-director, Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP)


Research interests: Economist. Globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy.

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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity



Christopher Winship

Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Member of the Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School


Research interests: Stratification and Statistical Methods. Statistical models for causal analysis; the effects of education on mental ability; how people act when rationality is not a possibility; the linkage in Pragmatism between action and knowledge; analysis of Age-Period-Cohort models; inner city youth behavior and violence, police-community relations.

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Christopher Jencks

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus


Research interests: Changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and the effects of welfare reform.

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Benjamin Schneer

Assistant Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Political scientist. American politics. Political representation: how citizens express their preferences, how government responds to them, and what may shape and distort these processes.

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Archon Fung

Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government


Research interests: Political scientist. How participation, deliberation and transparency can make contemporary public governance more fair and effective.

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Amitabh Chandra

Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School
Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School


Research interests: Economics and health policy. Innovation and cost-growth in healthcare, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in healthcare.

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