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What Can Hurricanes Teach Us About Mobility?

August 25, 2014

Pacific Standard | by Asad L. Asad (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology)



What can we do to prevent the next killing?

July 8, 2016

Urban Institute—Urban Wire | By Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an affiliated scholar with the Urban Institute.



What do Americans think about paying taxes?

March 13, 2015

Washington Center for Equitable Growth | Vanessa Williamson, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy



What do trends in economic inequality imply for innovation and entrepreneurship? A framework for future research and policy

February 16, 2016

Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08), now Senior Director for Policy and Academic Programs at Equitable Growth. Also cites work by Inequality doctoral fellow Alex Bell (Ph.D. candidate in Economics) et. al., which finds that children of parents in the top 1% of the income distribution are ten times more likely to become inventors than those in the bottom 50%.



What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.

September 24, 2018

Washington Post | By Rebecca Goldstein, Michael Sances, and Hye Young You PhD 2014. Based on the authors' research, "Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service," forthcoming in Urban Affairs Review.

Rebecca Goldstein is a PhD candidate in Government and a Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Scholar in Poverty and Justice. Hye Young You received her PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard and is now Assistant Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.

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What Happens When Low-Income Mothers Call the Police

March 10, 2016

Talk Poverty | By Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy and a Research Associate at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. An academic article based on this research is forthcoming in Law & Society Review.



What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?

April 9, 2015

Boston Globe Magazine | Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology



What Marco Rubio gets right — and wrong — about the decline of American investment

May 31, 2019

Washington Post
By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stansbury. Senator Rubio raises an important issue, Summers and Stansbury write, but they disagree with the diagnosis. Anna Stansbury is a Stone PhD Scholar and PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard.



What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us

September 12, 2015

The New York Times | By Anthony Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology.



What This Means, How This Happened, What To Do Now

November 9, 2016

Current Affairs
By Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy.

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