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    Why We Don’t Value Flextime Enough

    Why We Don’t Value Flextime Enough

    March 3, 2017

    Wall Street Journal | By Ray Fisman (Boston University) and Michael Luca (Harvard Business School). Most American workers won’t trade less pay for a more flexible schedule, but they’re underestimating the role of free time in personal happiness, Fisman and Luca write. Among the research discussed in this article, a recent study by Alexandre Mas (Princeton University) and Amanda Pallais (Harvard Economics), "Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements."
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    Alex Keyssar

    Why Voter Turnout is So Low in the United States

    October 17, 2019

    Jacobin | An interview with Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr Professor of History and Social Policy and the author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States.

    Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer

    May 19, 2016


    The New York Review of Books
    By Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy. Jencks digs into the data to review $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Jencks examines the evidence for how the poor and the poorest of the poor have fared since the late-1960s, concluding that since 1999 "inequality has risen even among the poor."

    Why the Republican Party Can't Win Over Black Voters

    Why the Republican Party Can't Win Over Black Voters

    April 19, 2016

    The New Republic | By Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur (Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School). "The very politics of exclusion that have delivered dozens of statehouses run counter to the message of inclusion necessary to win the White House," Johnson and Rigueur argue.

    Why the G.O.P Can't Win Black Votes

    Why the G.O.P Can't Win Black Votes

    August 4, 2016

    The New York Times | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. "With every news cycle focused on Donald J. Trump’s latest misstep, it’s easy to overlook the fact that his campaign has drawn record low support from African-Americans — and that this achievement, as it were, illuminates something worrisome within the Republican Party itself."

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