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What Works Houston: Houston's Learning Curve

May 21, 2015

Politico Magazine | Ruth López Turley (Ph.D. '01)



What We Learned About Trump's Supporters This Week

August 13, 2016

The New Yorker | Cites "Theda Skocpol's careful work [joint with Vanessa Williamson] on the Tea Party show[ing] that it was a movement of middle-class Americans, many of whom experienced a shock to their net worth after the 2008 financial crash when the value of their retirement accounts and homes plummeted."

Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard. Williamson (Ph.D. '15) is a Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.



What Trump’s tax returns tell us: The public needs to see more

March 16, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies. Williamson is the author of a new book Read My Lips: Why Americans are Proud to Pay Taxes, published earlier this month by by Princeton University Press.



What Trump Supporters Were Doing Before Trump

March 14, 2016

FiveThirtyEight | By Dan Hopkins (Ph.D. '07), University of Pennsylvania. Is Trump's rise a one-off or the opening act in a broader shift in American politics? Hopkins examines new data,  which suggest that  "one key ingredient of a political realignment—a split within one party on a durable, straightforward set of issues — is now in place."



What Title I portability would mean for the distribution of federal education aid

February 23, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Nora Gordon (Ph.D. '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University.



What the Trump Administration Should Know about Cities: Inequality

January 24, 2017

Urban Affairs Forum | By George Galster, Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University. First in a series sponsored by Urban Affairs Review, Galster's essay summarizes the empirical evidence on segregation, geographic inequalities, and opportunity, including research by Inequality & Social Policy affiliates Edward Glaeser, David Hureau (Ph.D. '16), Nathaniel Hendren, Christopher Jencks, Lawrence Katz, Ann Owens (Ph.D. '12), Robert J. Sampson, and Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07).



What the Tea Party tells us about the Trump presidency

November 9, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and co-author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and The Remaking of Republican Conservatism.



What the Science Says About Long-Term Damage from Lead

February 8, 2016

The New York Times | Highlights research by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes (Ph.D. '01, now Professor of Economics, Amherst College) on the effects of  childhood lead exposure on educational test scores and on behavioral outcomes in later childhood and young adulthood. View Reyes's research at her homepage.

Christopher Muller (Ph.D. '14, now a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar) will be presenting related research, "Lead Exposure and Violent Crime in the Early Twentieth Century," co-authored by James Feigenbaum (Ph.D. candidate in Economics), in the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series on Apr 18, 2016.



What States Can Do to Drastically Reduce Child Poverty

May 6, 2019

Governing | By Meg Wiehe and Christopher Wimer PhD 2007. Building on the federal Child Tax Credit would yield dramatic results, Wiehe and Wimer argue. Christopher Wimer received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard and is now Co-Director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University.



What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down

April 4, 2019

Washington Post | Less than two decades after the Civil War, Southern slave-owning dynasties were back on top of the economic ladder, according to an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan (PhD 2006) of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark.

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