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Why China Trade Hit U.S. Workers Unexpectedly Hard

August 11, 2016

Wall Street Journal | A growing body of academic research shows the U.S. workforce was hit harder than expected by trade with China. The Wall Street Journal summarizes some of the most important new research in this area, including work by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '05) and colleagues, "Understanding declining fluidity in the U.S. labor market," forthcoming in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Molloy is chief of the real estate finance section of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Why delaying school start dates is a bad deal for students

September 8, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Martin R. West, Associate Professor of Education at Harvard.



Why Democrats Must Embrace a Universal Child Allowance

March 21, 2016

The New Republic | Quotes Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07), co-author of a new study issued by The Century Foundation showing that such a policy could cut child poverty in half. Wimer is Co-Director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University Population Research Center. The Century Foundation report, "Doing More for Our Children," is co-authored by Irwin Garfinkel, David Harris, and Jane Waldfogel, all of Columbia University.



Why did Trump win? More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.

May 8, 2017

Washington Post | By Bernard L. Fraga, Sean McElwee, Jesse Rhodes, and Brian Schaffner. Bernard Fraga (PhD '13) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.



Why Do Americans Rate Their Local Public Schools So Favorably?

October 23, 2014

Brookings Institution—The Brown Center Chalkboard | By Martin R. West (Faculty, Ph.D. '06)



Why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students

January 8, 2019

The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo PhD 2005, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University. Reprinted in Times Higher Education, Quartz, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Selected for Five Best Ideas of the Day by The Aspen Institute.



Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing

February 10, 2017

The New York Times | "Suppose there were a way to pump up the economy, reduce inequality, and put an end to destructive housing bubbles like the one that contributed to the Great Recession." Discusses recent paper by economists Edward Glaeser of Harvard and Joe Gyourko at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which reviews the basic economics and functioning of the U.S. housing market "to better understand the impacts on home prices, household wealth, and the spatial distribution of people across markets."

Also cites research by Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11), Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, and Peter Ganong of the University of Chicago, on the role of housing prices in limiting the ability of low-income workers to migrate to higher-wage areas, thereby contributing income inequality.



Why Has CEO Pay Grown So Much Faster Than the Average Worker’s?

August 3, 2017

Kellogg Insight | Based on the research of Carola Frydman (PhD 2006) and Dimitris Papanikolaou. Carola Frydman is Associate Professor of Finance in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. View the research: “In Search of Ideas: Technological Innovation and Executive Pay Inequality.” Journal of Financial Economics (Oct 2018).

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Why has regional income convergence declined?

August 4, 2016

The Brookings Institution | By Peter Ganong, Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11), Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

For one hundred years, per capita incomes in poorer U.S. states have grown more rapidly than incomes in richer states, narrowing the gap between them.  Over the past three decades, though, the rate of convergence has slowed sharply. It has become more difficult for poorer states to catch up with richer states. In a paper presented at the Municipal Finance Conference, Ganong and Shoag attribute this slowdown in convergence to increasingly tight land use regulations in wealthy areas.



Why many black politicians backed the 1994 crime bill

February 12, 2016

Slate | Interview with Michael Javen Fortner (Ph.D. '10), now City University of New York, who argues the need for a more complex understanding of the origins and unintended consequences of the 1994 crime bill.

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