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    Oren Danieli: Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics

    Oren Danieli: Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics

    December 5, 2018

    Awardee | Oren Danieli, PhD candidate in Business Economics, is the 2019 recipient of the Harvard Business School Martin Award for Excellence, based on excellence in innovative dissertation research. From the award announcement: "Danieli develops novel approaches to study of income inequality. He has developed a big-data method to optimize social experiments aimed at increasing income mobility, used machine-learning tools to improve hiring of teachers and policemen, and created a new method to study wage polarization." Learn more about Oren Danieli's research:

    orendanieli.com »

    Olivia Chi

    Olivia Chi: Emerging Education Policy Scholars program

    September 4, 2018

    Thomas B. Fordham Institute | Olivia Chi, a PhD candidate in Education, has been selected for the 2018-2019 cohort of Emerging Education Policy Scholars, a program of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Insitute that brings together newly-minted PhD scholars and PhD candidates to the nation's capital to meet with education-policy experts and to share and brainstorm new directions for K–12 education research. Olivia's own research interests include the economics of education, teacher labor markets, and policies that reduce educational inequality.

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    New Awards in Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

    May 18, 2017

    Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation announced four new awards from its small grant competition in intergenerational mobility, three of which will support research by Harvard Inequality & Social Policy affiliates:

    • Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard University)
      Did Great Migration Destinations become Mobility Traps?
      Ellora Derenoncourt is a PhD candidate in Economics.
       
    • Ryan D. Enos (Harvard University)
      Do Public Works Programs Increase Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from the Works Progress Administration
      Ryan Enos is Associate Professor of Government.
       
    • James J. Feigenbaum (Princeton University), Maximillian Hell (Stanford University), and Robert Manduca (Harvard University)
      The American Dream in the Great Depression: Absolute Income Mobility in the United States, 1915-1940
      James Feigenbaum (Harvard PhD '16) is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In fall 2017 he will join the Boston University faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics. Maximillian Hell is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University.  Robert Manduca is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard University.

    Read the project abstracts

    Michael Hankinson awarded Harvard's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for dissertation

    Michael Hankinson awarded Harvard's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for dissertation

    May 24, 2017
    Awardee | Michael Hankinson (PhD in Government & Social Policy, '17) is a recipient of Harvard's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for his dissertation, "Why is Housing So Hard to Build? Four Papers on the Collection Action Problem of Spatial Proximity." Hankinson, who graduates tomorrow, will spend the coming year as a Quantitative Policy Analysis Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics Department at Oberlin College. Learn more about his work at his homepage:
    mhankinson.com
    Meredith Dost

    Meredith Dost: Tobin Project 2019 History of American Democracy Graduate Student Fellow

    September 25, 2019

    The Tobin Project | Meredith Dost, PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy and a Stone PhD Research Scholar, is one of nine History of American Democracy Graduate Student Fellows selected by the Tobin Project for her project, "The Effect of Administrative Burden on Political Participation: A Consequence of Federalism." The Tobin Project's graduate student fellows receive research support and the opportunity to receive critical feedback in an interdisciplinary, seminar-style environment.

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