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Yes, marches can make a difference. It depends on these three factors.

January 27, 2017

Washington Post | By Shom Mazumder, Ph.D. candidate in Government. It turns out that social science has a lot to say about which protests are likely to be effective. Here's what Mazumder's research found. Read more about his work at his website:
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When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism

February 7, 2017

JCHS Housing Perspectives | By Michael Hankinson, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy. Hankinson's findings, "based on new national-level experimental data and city-specific behavioral data....help explain why it is so hard to build new housing in expensive cities even when there is citywide support for that housing."  Read the full paper in the Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper series, and learn more about Hankinson's work at his website.
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Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement

May 16, 2017

Yale Law Journal | By Monica C. Bell, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Bell joins the faculty of Yale Law School as Associate Professor of Law in fall 2017. Read more about Monica Bell's work at her homepage: ​​​​​
scholar.harvard.edu/bell



The CFPB Is Making Government More Accountable. The GOP Wants to Stop It

June 9, 2017

Washington Monthly | By Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. The Financial CHOICE Act would remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s popular consumer complaints database from public view. At a time when many Americans feel government is unaccountable and out of touch with the day-to-day lives of everyday people, Kiviat argues, "Keeping complaints visible to the full American public, and not just to government bureaucrats, represents one of the more innovative mechanisms of accountability to emerge from federal government in recent years."



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.

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