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Causal Analysis of Non-Experimental Data

October 26, 2015

Serious Science | Sociologist Christopher Winship discusses how experimental thinking  can be applied in contexts where experiments are not possible. Part of Serious Science's online project to spread scientific ideas via conversations with scientists.



Event video: Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day

November 27, 2015

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, the focus of the Malcolm Wiener Center book event with authors Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University) and H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan), has been selected as one of 100 Notable Books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review.

Edin and Shaefer were joined for a discussion with David T. Ellwood and William Julius Wilson, November 10, 2015, at the Harvard Kennedy School. 
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Doug Elemendorf Unleashed

December 9, 2015

The Brookings Institution | "Now that Doug Elmendorf is no longer director of the Congressional Budget Office, he's speaking his mind." In a new video series, incoming HKS Dean Douglas Elmendorf, currently a visiting fellow at Brookings, offers short answers to questions about the federal budget, tax reform, inequality, and other current economic debates. Videos 1, 4, and 6 focus particularly on inequality and economic mobility.



Alphachatterbox: Our podcast chat with Claudia Goldin

December 11, 2015

Financial Times [audio: 55 mins]|An in-depth conversation with economist Claudia Goldin about her work on the history of women in the workforce and the causes of the lingering gender wage gap.



The other side of Black Lives Matter

December 14, 2015

The Brookings Institution | William Julius Wilson has been appointed a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings. This is his first piece for their Social Mobility Memos series.



Do Republicans Really Want the Black and Latino Vote?

December 15, 2015

The Root | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Prof. of Public Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.



Does Inequality Matter? Foreign Affairs' Brain Trust Weighs In

December 13, 2015

Foreign Affairs [gated] | Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, is among a group of leading scholars asked to assess the political consequences of economic inequality in this online-only forum, which (annoyingly) requires registration or individual subscription to view.
The January-February print issue of Foreign Affairs leads with a series on inequality—"what causes it, why it matters, what can be done." The issue features articles by Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan), François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics), Pierre Rosanvallon (College de France), Danielle Allen (Harvard University), and Anthony B. Atkinson (London School of Economics).



The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap

January 7, 2016

Freakonomics Radio podcast [audio and transcript] | Interview with Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics.



Drug Addiction Gets New Treatment on Campaign Trail

January 21, 2016

NPR OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook | With guest Leah Wright Rigueur, Harvard Kennedy School faculty and Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.



If Only Rich Men Like Bloomberg Can Save Us, It's Not a Democracy

January 26, 2016

The New York Times | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, and faculty affiliate, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.  Part of the Room for Debate forum, "Can Bloomberg and His Millions Save Us from Ourselves?"

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