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Yes, signing those petitions makes a difference — even if they don’t change Trump’s mind

February 3, 2017

Washington Post | By Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Learn more about his research project on The Petition and Republican Government:
​​​​​​​View project website... Read more about Yes, signing those petitions makes a difference — even if they don’t change Trump’s mind



You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?

July 16, 2015

The New York Times Magazine | Bruce Western



Young Black People Are Radically Reimagining What Political Activism Can Be

March 1, 2016

The New York Times | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Part of a Room for Debate forum: "Making Black Voices Matter."



Young men falling to the bottom of the income ladder

May 22, 2017

Boston Globe | Quotes Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics: "People from elite colleges moving to Wall Street and top law firms and to tech companies are doing perfectly fine. In fact, they're doing much better than comparable people in their parents' generation," Katz said. "But for the typical young man, they're donig substantially worse economically than their father."



« L’objectif de mes recherches est d’améliorer la conception des politiques fiscales »

May 13, 2019

Le Monde | Stefanie Stantcheva, lauréate de l’édition 2019 du Prix du meilleur jeune économiste, explique les effets des réformes de l’impôt.



​Americans with criminal records may outperform on the job

May 9, 2016

CBS Money Watch  | Features new research by Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, and Jennifer Lundquist and  Eiko Strader (both of UMass Amherst).



‘Cuz’ Mourns a Loss and Denounces a System

August 30, 2017

The New York Times | Jennifer Senior reviews Cuz, by Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard.



‘Equal pay for equal work’ isn’t so simple

January 26, 2015

Boston Globe | Claudia Goldin



‘I Want to See You Here’: How to Make College a Better Bet for More People

February 27, 2020

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anthony Abraham Jack (PhD 2016), Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard and the author of The Privileged Poor, joins a discussion with a campus leader, a public official, and a college counselor to explore how to lift more people's prospects. Read and watch excerpts from their conversation. Part of The Chronicle series, Broken Ladder, examining the role of education in social mobility.



‘One of so many millions gone’: how my cousin’s life was taken from him

November 17, 2017

The Guardian | By Danielle Allen. At the age of just 15, Michael was sent to prison for 11 years. On his release, I tried to help him start again. Why did his story end in tragedy? Allen is a political theorist and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. This is an edited extract from Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

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