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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).



What Lower Labor Force Participation Rates Tell Us About Work Opportunities and Incentives

July 15, 2015

Economics 21 | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)



What Lower Labor Force Participation Rates Tell Us about Work Opportunities and Incentives

July 15, 2015

U.S. Congress—Testimony | Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08) and Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09) testify before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.



What Makes a School Successful?

May 2, 2015

Newsweek | Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie, Ph.D. '13).



What Public Housing Officials Can Teach Us about Overcoming Racial Discrimination

November 20, 2015

Scholars Strategy Network | By Katherine Levine Einstein (Ph.D. '12). This brief summarizes research forthcoming in the  American Journal of Political Science. Read the research here ▶



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.



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 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 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 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).

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