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How can summer jobs reduce crime among youth? An evaluation of the Boston summer youth employment program

January 5, 2018

Brookings Institution | By Alicia Sasser Modestino (PhD '01), Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics at Northeastern University. Modestino is Associate Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.



Disproportionality in student discipline: Connecting policy to research

January 18, 2018

Brookings Institution | By Nora Gordon (PhD '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University. How a number of new studies on race disparities in student discipline inform the current policy debate.



Increasing Opportunity and Harnessing Talent—What Works?

January 11, 2018

Brookings Institution | Anthony Abraham Jack (PhD '16) joined Raj Chetty (Stanford University), Reshma Saujani (Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code), and Richard V. Reeves (Brookings Institution) for a panel on how to harness America's underutilized talent. Anthony Jack is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



Natural Disasters by Location: Rich Leave and Poor Get Poorer

July 2, 2017

Scientific American | Each big catastrophe like a hurricane increases a U.S. county's poverty by 1 percent,  90 years of data show. By Leah Platt Boustan (PhD '06), Maria Lucia Yanguas, Matthew Kahn, and Paul W. Rhode, based on the authors' research. Leah Platt Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University.



The golden ticket to higher paying jobs: Hard skills plus social skills

November 16, 2017

Boston Globe | A Harvard researcher demonstrates the value of collaboration, even in highly technical fields. Interview with David Deming, a Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Kennedy School.



How tax cuts for the wealthy became Republican orthodoxy

December 21, 2017

Washington Post | By Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15). Vanessa Williamson is a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017).



Bernard Fraga: MPSA Latino/a Caucus Early Career Award

December 20, 2017

Awardee | Bernard L. Fraga (PhD '13) is the 2018 recipient of the Midwest Political Science Association Latino/a Caucus Early Career Award. An Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Fraga's  research examines American electoral politics, racial and ethnic politics, and political behavior.



Centering on 'diversity' ignores the real focus of affirmative action

August 2, 2017

Boston Globe | By Natasha Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University.



Column: How conservative activists are using Asian Americans to argue against affirmative action

October 3, 2017

PBS NewsHour | By Natasha K. Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University.



You're not going to get accepted into a top university on merit alone

December 13, 2017

The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University and the author of The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

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