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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 We Don’t Value Flextime Enough

March 3, 2017

Wall Street Journal | By Ray Fisman (Boston University) and Michael Luca (Harvard Business School). Most American workers won’t trade less pay for a more flexible schedule, but they’re underestimating the role of free time in personal happiness, Fisman and Luca write. Among the research discussed in this article, a recent study by Alexandre Mas (Princeton University) and Amanda Pallais (Harvard Economics), "Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements."
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Why Voter Turnout is So Low in the United States

October 17, 2019

Jacobin | An interview with Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr Professor of History and Social Policy and the author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States.



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 Trump's New Immigration Bill Makes Sense

August 4, 2017

Politico | By George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Why Trump is Doomed with Black Voters

April 8, 2016

The Atlantic | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.

Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer

May 19, 2016


The New York Review of Books
By Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy. Jencks digs into the data to review $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Jencks examines the evidence for how the poor and the poorest of the poor have fared since the late-1960s, concluding that since 1999 "inequality has risen even among the poor."



Why the Republican Party Can't Win Over Black Voters

April 19, 2016

The New Republic | By Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur (Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School). "The very politics of exclusion that have delivered dozens of statehouses run counter to the message of inclusion necessary to win the White House," Johnson and Rigueur argue.



Why the poor do better on these simple tests of financial common sense

January 16, 2016

Chicago Tribune | Discusses research by psychologists Anuj K. Shah (University of Chicago), Eldar Shafir (Princeton), and economist Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard. The work was presented earlier this month at the American Economic Association annual meeting.
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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.

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