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Richard Freeman recognized with AEA Distinguished Fellow Award

April 29, 2016

Awardee | Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, is one of four recipients of the American Economics Association Distinguished Fellow award for lifetime distinguished research contributions. 

"Richard Freeman is an enormously innovative labor economist who has made pioneering contributions to virtually every aspect of the field including the market for highly educated labor, the economics of discrimination and poverty, the economics of trade unionism, comparative labor market institutions and empirical methodology. Freeman’s analyses have been notably expansive, eye opening, revealing, policy-relevant and often provocative, no more so than on trade unionism and the role of employee ownership." More ►



Matthew Desmond named a William T. Grant Scholar

April 18, 2016

Awardee | Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is one of six new William T. Grant Scholars, which supports promising, early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences with five-year  research awards. Desmond will pursue research titled "When the State Takes Your Children: How the Child Protective Services System Changes Young Parents."



Sendhil Mullainathan elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 20, 2016

Awardee | Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, is one of 213 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious learned societies whose members some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, business, and philanthropic leaders. Read more about the University's eight new members in the Harvard Gazette.



Matthew Desmond to receive 2016 Human Security Award from UC Irvine

May 3, 2016

Awardee | Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Science, is the 2016 recipient of the Human Security Award, which recognizes an individual "whose actions have made a dramatic difference in helping protect and empower the world’s most vulnerable groups and communities." The award is sponsored by the UC Irvine Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Center for Unconventional Security, and School of Social Ecology.



Funding the future: Star Family Challenge supports cutting-edge research projects

May 10, 2016

Harvard Gazette | Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, is one of five recipients of this year's Star Family Challenge grant, awarded annually to "high-risk, high-return research efforts." Glaeser and colleagues are working to extend a machine-learning algorithm based on street-level images  that they developed in Boston and New York to aid in the collection of urban data in developing countries. 



Announcing New Radcliffe Institute Fellows: Jal Mehta

May 13, 2016

Awardee | Jal Mehta (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been selected to be the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow in the 2016-2017 class of fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. These Radcliffe Fellows—scholars, scientists, and artists—come from six continents and across Harvard to pursue an individual project in an interdisciplinary setting. Mehta will be working on a book, The Chastened Dream: Social Science, Social Policy, and Social Progress across the Twentieth Century.



IZA Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

May 17, 2016

Awardee | Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, is the winner of the 2016 IZA Prize in Labor Economics, awarded by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. The prize is awarded for outstanding academic achievement in labor economics, intended to stimulate research that seeks "answers to the important labor market policy questions of our time." Read a profile of Claudia Goldin in the The University of Chicago Magazine, where Goldin earned her Ph.D., and Goldin's interview in Econ Focus, magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Q4:2014). Learn more about Goldin's latest work at her Harvard Economics homepage.



Theda Skocpol delivers 2016 Ramsay Murray Lecture

May 6, 2016

Selwyn College - University of Cambridge| Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, drew a standing room-only audience of more than 300 and a huge ovation for her 2016 Ramsay Murray Lecture on "The Obama Impact", delivered at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. 
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Deming Named Professor of Education

May 19, 2016

Harvard Graduate School of Education | Associate Professor David Deming (Ph.D. '10) has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Deming is an economist interested in educational inequality and the impact of education policies on long-term outcomes.

“David’s scholarship addresses fundamentally important questions in exceptionally innovative ways. The rigor and relevance of his work — on subjects ranging from the long-term benefits of the Head Start program, the value of degrees from for-profit colleges, and the effects of racial segregation on academic achievement and life outcomes — make his findings absolutely essential reading for academics and policymakers alike,” said Dean James Ryan.



Torben Iversen awarded Denmark's prestigious Holst-Knudsen Prize for Scientific Research

May 25, 2016

Awardee | Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, is the recipient of one of Denmark's oldest and most prestigious science awards, the the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research. "Again and again," the award citation notes, "Torben Iversen’s work has set the agenda for research in a variety of areas, such as the welfare state, the role of central banks, salary negotiations, education, and electoral systems."

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