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Technological Change, Inequality, and the Collapse of the Liberal Order

June 17, 2017

G20 Insights | Carlos Lastra-Anadón, PhD candidate in Government & Social Policy, has co-authored a policy brief that has been selected to appear in "20 Solution Proposals for the G20" to be circulated to summit participants at the G20 Hamburg summit, July 7-8, 2017. Theirs is one of 20 policy recommendations "chosen for their novelty, implementability, and relevance to the G20 during the German presidency."

The brief is co-authored by Manuel Muñiz (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University), Karl Kaiser (Harvard University), Henning Meyer (London School of Economics), and Manuel Torres (Accenture).



Tea Party Passions

January 15, 2012

Harvard Magazine | Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. candidate in Government and Social Policy).




Taking Nothing for Granted

October 13, 2015

GSAS Bulletin | Anthony Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, profiled: "How one GSAS student challenges assumptions about the undergraduate experience."



Takeover to Turnaround: What States and Schools Can Learn from the Massachusetts Takeover of Lawrence Public Schools

January 28, 2016

HGSE Usable Knowledge | Spotlights new research by Inequality Fellow Beth Shueler (Ed.D. candidate), Joshua Goodman (Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School), and David Deming (Ph.D. '10 and Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education), which found achievement gains from state takeover and district-level turnaround of Lawrence public schools  in a new working paper that may serve as a blueprint for other districts and states.



Study finds gap between rich and poor growing regionally, too

May 2, 2019

Harvard Gazette | A new paper by Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, now out in Social Forces.

“In 1980, only about 12 percent of the population lived in places that were especially rich or especially poor,” Manduca said. “By 2013, it was over 30 percent. So what we’re seeing is a polarization, where people are increasingly living in places that are either much richer or much poorer than the country overall.”

While part of that shift is due to sorting — the notion that high-earning people and high-paying jobs have become more geographically concentrated — Manduca shows that the rise in national income inequality can account for more than half of the economic divergence across regions that we observe.

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Stone PhD Scholars present research at 8th ECINEQ Meeting Paris 2019

July 3, 2019

Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) | Stone PhD Scholars Alex Albright (Economics) , Nicholas Short (Government & Social Policy), and Oren Danieli PhD'19 (Business Economics) have been selected to present papers at the eighth meeting of Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) at the Paris School of Economics, July 3-5, 2019.

Keynote speakers: Stefanie Stantcheva of Harvard University, Marianne Bertrand of University of Chicago, and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics.

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State Takeover Gives Lawrence, Mass. School District a Fresh Start

May 5, 2015

Education Week | Beth Schueler (Ed.D. candidate), Joshua S. Goodman, David Deming



Soledad Prillaman awarded Harvard's Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for dissertation

May 24, 2017

Awardee | Soledad Artiz Prillaman (PhD in Government, '17) is a recipient of Harvard's Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for best dissertation on a subject of political science for her doctoral dissertation, "Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India's Gender Gap in Political Participation." Prillaman, who graduates this week, will spend the next two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, before joining the faculty at Stanford University in 2019 as Assistant Professor of Political Science.  Learn more about her work at her homepage:
soledadprillaman.com



Sociology's Truth? W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Sociology

February 9, 2016

Los Angeles Review of Books | By Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. Reviewing Aldon Morris's The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, Bell argues Morris evokes the challenges of black and activism-oriented scholars today.



Smart Social Programs

May 11, 2015

The New York Times | Sarah Cohodes research (Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy) on Medicaid and education featured in op-ed by Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, on the substantial long-term benefits of social policy investments in families. Also featured: New findings from the Moving to Opportunity experiment by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz (Harvard Economics) and research by Raj Chetty,  John Friedman (Brown University), and Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D. '04, now at Columbia Business School) on the impact of the earned-income tax credit on test scores and subsequent earnings. 

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