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Alex Keyssar on President Obama's Historic Trip to Cuba

March 21, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | Q & A with Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy.

Alex Keyssar speaks before U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on 52nd anniversary of Voting Rights Act

August 18, 2017

C-SPAN| To mark the 52nd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights heard testimony from voting rights scholar Alexander Keyssar, Matthew J. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy [video: 56 minutes].



Alexandra Killewald and Brielle Bryan: ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population

August 15, 2019

Awardees | Alexandra Killewald and Brielle Bryan PhD 2018 received the American Sociological Association's Population Section Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for "Falling Behind: The Role of Inter- and Intragenerational Processes in Widening Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps through Early and Middle Adulthood," published in Social Forces in 2018. Alexandra Killewald is Professor of Sociology. Brielle Bryan earned her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy in 2018 and is now Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University.

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Alexandra Killewald to receive William Julius Wilson Early Career Award

May 30, 2019

Awardee | Harvard's Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, is the 2019 recipient of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. The award recognizes a scholar who has made major contributions within 10 years of receiving the degree and will be conferred in August at the ASA Annual Meeting in New York City.



All hail partisan politics

February 9, 2017

Harvard Gazette | Harvard historian looks to the past, using case study method to suggest that dogged disputes can strengthen democracy. Interview with David Moss, Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and author of a new book, Democrcy: A Case Study (Harvard University Press, 2017).



Alphachatterbox: Our podcast chat with Claudia Goldin

December 11, 2015

Financial Times [audio: 55 mins]|An in-depth conversation with economist Claudia Goldin about her work on the history of women in the workforce and the causes of the lingering gender wage gap.



Amanda Pallais awarded tenure in Economics

February 23, 2018

Harvard Economics | Amanda Pallais, formerly Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy  and Social Studies, has been promoted to Professor of Economics. Palliais studies the labor market performance and educational investment decisions of  disadvantaged and socially excluded groups. Pallais's research has shown how manager bias can depress the job performance of minorities, how the cost of developing a reputation can make it difficult for young workers to enter the labor market, how marriage market concerns can lead women to invest less in labor market success, and how financial aid can increase the educational attainment of low-income students.



Amazon to Add 100,000 Jobs as Bricks-and-Mortar Retail Crumbles

January 12, 2017

The New York Times | "The rise of automation...has prompted an intense debate among economists and some policy makers about just what society and especially government owes these workers. One place to start, [Harvard economist] Lawrence Katz said, would be for the government to provide more funding for retraining and also develop a wage insurance program to cover differences in salaries as workers migrate to new, lower-paid jobs from disappearing, higher-paid ones."



America has locked up so many black people, it has warped our sense of reality

February 26, 2016

Washington Post | Draws on work by Bruce Western, who argues that statistics on employment and economic activity that fail to take into account high rates of incarceration among black men in high-risk groups miss how deeply mass incarceration is connected to American poverty and economic inequality. Western is a Professor of Sociology, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.



America may be in a reinforcing feedback loop of growing inequality and Republican rule

November 4, 2015

Vox | Delves into informational model put forth by Torben Iversen and David Soskice (LSE) to explain why growing income inequality in the U.S. is associated with polarization in Congress but not in the mass electorate. View Iversen-Soskice's original article in the current issue of Comparative Political Studies ▶

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