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    How Colleges Fail Poor Students

    How Colleges Fail Poor Students

    January 18, 2016

    Minnesota Public Radio—MPR News with Kerri Miller | Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) guests to discuss what his dissertation research shows [audio 40 min].

    How conservative megadonors built a shadow GOP that weakened the official party

    How conservative megadonors built a shadow GOP that weakened the official party

    April 14, 2016

    Vox | Elite donor groups have pulled Republican politicians to the far right on economic policy, according to research by Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology), Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy), and Vanessa S. Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now a fellow at the Brookings Institution).

    Allison Daminger

    How Couples Share “Cognitive Labor” and Why it Matters

    September 19, 2019

    Behavioral Scientist | By Allison Daminger, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. "Cognitive work is gendered, but not uniformly so," Allison Daminger finds. "And if we want to understand how divisions of cognitive labor impact women, families, and society as a whole, this is a crucial insight." Based on her research, "The Cognitive Dimensions of Household Labor," recently published in the American Sociological Review.

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    How judges understand, try to address racial disparities in the criminal court process

    How judges understand, try to address racial disparities in the criminal court process

    May 23, 2016

    Journalist's Resource | Write-up of key findings from recently-published article in Criminology by Matthew Clair (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) and Alix Winter (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy), "How Judges Think About Racial Disparities: Situational Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System" (view it here).  Also cites related research by Maya Sen, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, "Is Justice Really Blind? Race and Reversal in U.S. Courts,” Journal of Legal Studies, 2015 (view it here).

    How Pollution Can Hurt the Health of the Economy

    How Pollution Can Hurt the Health of the Economy

    November 27, 2018

    The New York Times | Children are especially vulnerable to the effects of pollution. Daniel Prinz, a Harvard PhD candidate in Health Policy and Stone PhD Scholar, is the author of a recent paper on the subject. “The evidence is overwhelming that pollutants encountered in utero can cause long-term harm,” Mr. Prinz said.

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