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Analysis: DACA Boosts Young Immigrants' Well-Being, Mental Health

June 15, 2017

NBC News | By Roberto G. Gonzales (Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education) and Kristina Brant (PhD student in Sociology). Roberto Gonazles is Principal Investigator of the National UnDACAmented Research Project. Kristina Brant is the Project Coordinator.



How the Equifax Hack Could Hurt Anyone Applying for a Job

October 4, 2017

The Atlantic | By Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. Fraudulent activity will likely start to show up in Americans' credit history—which many employers use to evaluate prospective hires. This article is based on Barbara Kiviat's research, published in Socio-Economic Review, which found considerable subjectivity and lack of empirical basis for the way that employers used credit reports in hiring decisions.
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Europeans have lost faith in their governments and institutions. Why? We did the research.

September 22, 2017

Washington Post | By Chase Foster and Jeff Frieden. Chase Foster is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard and an Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellow. Jeff Frieden is a Professor of Government. 
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The census has always been political. Especially when it comes to race, ethnicity, and national origin.

March 30, 2018

Washington Post | By Shom Mazumder, PhD candidate in Government and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.



How rising U.S. income inequality exacerbates racial economic disparities

August 23, 2018

Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. This article summarizes findings from “Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities” in Sociological Science. 

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Punishing and toxic neighborhood environments independently predict the intergenerational social mobility of black and white children

April 16, 2019

PNAS | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, and Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



What Marco Rubio gets right — and wrong — about the decline of American investment

May 31, 2019

Washington Post
By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stansbury. Senator Rubio raises an important issue, Summers and Stansbury write, but they disagree with the diagnosis. Anna Stansbury is a Stone PhD Scholar and PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard.



To Fix Regional Inequality, Target the One Percent

March 25, 2019

Washington Monthly | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. Because some places are doing well while others are not, we tend to assume that disparities are largely a local problem, writes Robert Manduca. But if national income inequality in the US is largely responsible for the growing economic dispartity between its regions, as Manduca's research suggests, fixing struggling regions will require a different set of policies.

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Amendment 4 requires addressing the criminalization of poverty

April 25, 2019

Sun Sentinel | By Michael Morse, Harvard PhD candidate in Government and a JD candidate at Yale Law School.



Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: How do Rohingya Explain Concepts that Undermine their Existence?

April 9, 2019

The Globe Post | By Cresa Pugh, PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy. Based on her research into the historical roots of Rohingya persecution, which explores how perceptions and notions of identity produce conflict.

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