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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 Makes a School Successful?

May 2, 2015

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



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 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 is a foreign language worth?

March 11, 2014

The Economist | Albert Saíz (Ph.D. '02)



What if Politicians Studied the Social Fabric Like Economists Studied GDP?

May 24, 2017

The Atlantic | Senator Mike Lee's multi-year Social Capital Project. Highlights the project's first report, authored by a Joint Economic Committee research team led by Scott Winship (PhD '09), and its first hearing, which featured testimony from Mario Small and Robert Putnam of Harvard, Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, and Yuval Levin of National Affairs.



What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.

September 24, 2018

Washington Post | By Rebecca Goldstein, Michael Sances, and Hye Young You PhD 2014. Based on the authors' research, "Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service," forthcoming in Urban Affairs Review.

Rebecca Goldstein is a PhD candidate in Government and a Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Scholar in Poverty and Justice. Hye Young You received her PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard and is now Assistant Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.

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What happened when researchers posted fake iPhone adds online from people in poor neighborhoods

April 7, 2015

Washington Post | Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07)



What Growing Up in a Segregated L.A. Neighborhood Means to Young Latinos

April 6, 2015

The Atlantic—CityLab | Maria G. Rendon (Ph.D. '09)

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