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    What is Stopping Poor People from Moving to Better Jobs?

    What is Stopping Poor People from Moving to Better Jobs?

    October 12, 2017
    The Atlantic | Highly educated people still relocate for work, but exorbitant housing costs in the best-paying cities make it difficult for anyone else to do so. Cites research by Peter Ganong (University of Chicago) and Daniel Shoag (Harvard Kennedy School), Edward Glaeser (Harvard Economics), and Leah Platt Boustan PhD '06 (Princeton University).
    David J. Deming

    Make College Free? Not So Fast. New Study Shows That Students Are Helped by Making College Better, Not Cheaper

    November 19, 2017
    The 74 | A recent by economists David Deming of Harvard University and Christopher Walters of the University of California, Berkeley, has found that students benefit far more when schools spend to improve their academics rather than lower their prices.
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    David Deming

    Social skills increasingly valuable to employers

    October 23, 2017
    Harvard Gazette | Employers increasingly reward workers who have both social and technical skills, rather than technical skills alone, according to a new analysis by a Harvard education economist David Deming, recently published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Deming (PhD '10) is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of  Education.
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    Education Next

    2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform released

    August 1, 2017
    Education Next | By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Samuel Barrows. This article appears in print in the Winter 2018 issue of Education Next.
    The $100 million question: Did Newark’s school reforms work? New study finds big declines, then progress

    The $100 million question: Did Newark’s school reforms work? New study finds big declines, then progress

    October 16, 2017
    Chalkbeat | Education reporter Matt Barnum describes findings from a new study released this week by Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) and NBER. The study's authors include Thomas J. Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE, and Beth Schueler (PhD '16), now a postdoctoral research fellow with the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard Kennedy School.
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    The $100 million question: Did Newark’s school reforms work? New study finds big declines, then progress

    The $100 million question: Did Newark’s school reforms work? New study finds big declines, then progress

    October 16, 2017
    Chalkbeat | Education reporter Matt Barnum describes findings from a new study released this week by Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) and NBER. The study's authors include Thomas J. Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE, and Beth Schueler (PhD '16), now a postdoctoral research fellow with the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard Kennedy School.
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    The Big Picture: Violence and Criminal Justice

    The Big Picture: Violence and Criminal Justice

    October 23, 2017
    Public Books | By Patrick Sharkey (PhD '07'), Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at NYU. This is the 11th installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. 
    LSE Brexit

    Brexit appealed to white working-class men who feel society no longer values them

    December 14, 2017
    LSE Brexit | By Noam Gidron and Peter A. Hall. Why is there such strong support for right-populist causes and candidates among the white working class? The authors' summarize their recent article published in the British Journal of Sociology.
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    Noam Gidron (PhD '16) is a fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. Beginning in 2018, he will join the faculty of the Department of Political Science and the Joint Program in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Peter A Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government, Harvard University, and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

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