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Racially divided communities, voting patterns and new research on threat perceptions

April 15, 2015

Journalist's Resource | Discussion of Ryan Enos's findings and related research on gentrification by Robert J. Sampson and Jackelyn Hwang, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy



Proposals for improving the U.S. Pretrial System

March 15, 2019

The Hamilton Project | By Will Dobbie (PhD 2013) and Crystal S. Yang (PhD 2013). Will Dobbie is now Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Crystal S. Yang is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.



Preserving the federal role in encouraging and evaluating education innovation

February 19, 2015

Brookings Institution—The Brown Center Chalkboard | By Martin R. West (Faculty, Ph.D. '06)



Partisanship and Public Opinion on the Common Core

April 16, 2015

Brookings Institution— The Brown Center Chalkboard | By Michael B. Henderson (Ph.D. 11) and Martin R. West (faculty and Ph.D. '06)



Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century

June 11, 2020

American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Final report of the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, co-chaired by Danielle Allen of Harvard University, Stephen B. Heintz, and Eric Liu. The report includes 31 recommendations to strengthen America’s institutions and civic culture to help a nation in crisis emerge with a more resilient democracy.

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Open letter from political scientists clarifies evidence concerning Trump claim that millions of non-citizens voted in 2016 election

January 30, 2017

An open letter signed by nearly 200 professional political scientists and scholars of political behavior, including Harvard professor Ryan Enos and Inequality & Social Policy alumni Bernard Fraga PhD'13 (Indiana University), Alex Hertel-Fernandez PhD'16 (Columbia University), Jeremy Levine PhD'16 (University of Michigan), Daniel Schlozman PhD'11 (Johns Hopkins University), Ariel White PhD'16 (MIT), and Vanessa Williamson PhD'15 (Brookings Institution).



New Study: Market Forces Do Affect Health Care Sector

September 7, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | Coverage of new research by Amitabh Chandra, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, in the American Economic Review, "Health Care Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the US Health Care Sector." The article is co-authored by Amy Finkelstein, MIT; Adam Sacarny, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; and Chad Syverson, Chicago Booth.
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New Study Outlines Impacts of Higher Health Insurance Deductibles

October 22, 2015

Harvard Kennedy School | Amitabh Chandra



National Academy of Sciences releases report: The Integration of Immigrants into American Society

September 21, 2015

National Academy of Sciences | Mary C. Waters chaired the national panel of experts who wrote the 520-page report, which is to be published by The National Academies Press. View the Report in Brief (6 pp) ► 




Must-Read: Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva: A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation

September 28, 2016

Washington Center for Equitable Growth | Post by Brad DeLong highlights new NBER working paper by Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley) and Stefanie Stantcheva, Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard, "A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation." 
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