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Will taxes be a stumbling block or an opportunity in the Democratic debate?

January 15, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Vanessa S. Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now a Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings).

Will S. Dobbie: 2019 Sloan Research Fellow

February 20, 2019



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Will Manufacturing Jobs Come Back?

January 20, 2017

EconoFact | By David Deming (Ph.D '10), Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.



Wicked Smart: Massachusetts's Efforts to Turn Around a Failing School District

June 1, 2016

Chicago Policy Review | Delves into recent study by Beth E. Schueler (Ph.D. '16), Joshua S. Goodman, and David J. Deming. Read the original research, "Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts," NBER Working Paper.



Why ‘Nudges’ to Help Students Succeed Are Catching On

January 29, 2016

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Highlights research by Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. '09, now Columbia University Teachers College) illustrating how insights from behavioral economics are influencing education research and policy: "Higher education presents a 'perfect storm for the frailties of human reasoning,' Andrew P. Kelly says. 'The system often seems set up to frustrate people.' That’s especially true for the least-advantaged students, as Judith Scott-Clayton showed in 'The Shapeless River,' a paper describing the unstructured environment that community-college students must navigate."



Why White House Economists Worry About Land-Use Regulations

November 20, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Delves into papers by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '05, now Federal Reserve Board of Governors) and by Peter Ganong (a Harvard Ph.D. candidate in Economics) and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS faculty), which CEA Chair Jason Furman highlighted in a recent address on the links between land-use regulations, wages, inequality, and intergenerational mobility.



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 these summer jobs will matter for high schoolers

May 8, 2015

CNBC | Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01)



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.



Why the High Cost of Big-City Living is Bad for Everyone

August 25, 2016

The New Yorker | Summarizes an expanding body of research, including work by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11), Associate Professor of Public Policy, which suggests that the unaffordability of wealthy cities is itself a source of decreasing opportunity and a contributor to income inequality.

To learn more, see Ganong and Shoag's discussion and link to their paper, "Why Has Regional Income Convergence Declined?", at the Brookings Institution here.

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