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The Diploma Gap: Growing Costs of an Unfinished College Education

May 24, 2017

EconoFact | By David Deming, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard Graduate School of Education.



The Average Mid-Forties Male College Graduate Earns 55% More Than His Female Counterparts

June 12, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Erling Barth, Claudia Goldin, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Claudia Olivetti. The authors of two recent studies  discuss what they have earned about how men's and women's earnings evolve over their careers and the mechanisms that drive the growth of the gender-earnings gap. Claudia Goldin is Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard. 
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The Average Mid-Forties Male College Graduate Earns 55% More Than His Female Counterparts

June 12, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Erling Barth, Claudia Goldin (Henry Lee Professor of Economics), Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Claudia Olivetti. To gain understand gender pay gap, it is instructive to learn how men's and women's earnings evolve over the first 20 years of their careers, the authors write. What their own research has found. 



The Ambition-Marriage Trade-Off Too Many Single Women Face

May 8, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais. Harvard economist Amanda Pallais and co-authors discuss the findings of their latest research on marriage market incentives and labor market investments, forthcoming in the American Economic Review: "Many schooling and initial career decisions, such as whether to take advanced math in high school, major in engineering, or become an entrepreneur, occur early in life, when most women are single. These decisions can have labor market consequences with long-lasting effects," they write. 
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Study Finds Couples' Division of Paid and Unpaid Labor Linked to Risk of Divorce

November 16, 2016

American Sociological Association | Discusses findings of recent study by Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, published in the August issue of the American Sociological Review.
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Striking the right balance on risk for state and local pensions

July 17, 2017

Brookings Institution | A look at two papers presented at the 2017 Municipal Finance Conference, including work by Associate Professor Daniel Shoag (PhD '11) of the Harvard Kennedy School (joint with James Farrell), "Risky Choices: Simulating Public Pension Funding Stress with Realistic Shocks."
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Six Examples of the Long-Term Benefits of Anti-Poverty Programs

May 11, 2015

Council of Economic Advisers | CEA Chairman Jason Furman web brief provides a more detailed detailed discussion of the research mentioned in his New York Times op-ed, "Smart Social Programs". This brief highlights research by  Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy), David Deming (faculty member and Ph.D. '10), Lawrence Katz, Jeffrey Liebman, Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D. '04), and Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07).



Should Policymakers Care Whether Inequality is Helpful or Harmful for Growth?

October 13, 2017

Peterson Institute for International Economics | Presentation by Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School) at PIIE's "Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy Conference," with discussion by Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School), Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and Justin Wolfers (PhD '01). View the paper, slides, and conference videos at the conference webpage.



Seven Facts on Noncognitive Skills from Education to the Labor Market

October 4, 2016

The Hamilton Project | New policy brief  by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and colleagues draws from research by Harvard faculty member David Deming, "The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market." Deming (Ph.D. '10), Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard Graduate School of Education, first presented this work in the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series in fall 2015.
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Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

October 26, 2015

HKS Working Paper Series | By George Borjas.

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