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Research: Lawyering and Lobbying: Why Banks Shape Rules

March 3, 2017

Stigler Center at Chicago Booth | Brian Libgober, PhD candidate in Government, and Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, presented their research, Lawyering and Lobbying: Why Banks Shape Rules, at a jointly organized  conference hosted by the Stigler Center. The conference, How Incomplete is the Theory of the Firm?,  was jointly organized by Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, David Moss and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, and Karthik Ramanna of Oxford University.



Research: The Rise of Superstar Firms Has Been Better for Investors than for Employees

May 11, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By John Van Reenen (MIT) and Christina Patterson (MIT). Discussion of their new working paper, co-authored with David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich), and Lawrence Katz (Harvard), "The Fall of Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms."
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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, 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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A most egalitarian profession: pharmacy and the evolution of a family-friendly occupation

June 8, 2017

Microeconomic Insights | By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. "How much of the earnings gap between men and women is because the latter choose jobs and occupations that enable flexibility in their work, predictability in their hours and bounds on their work schedule?," ask Harvard economics professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. Here they summarize their recent article by the same title, pubilshed in 2016 in the Journal of Labor Economics.
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How the government can help simplify personal financial decision-making

August 29, 2017

Harvard Kennedy School | "Low incomes, limited financial literacy, fraud, and deception are just a few of the many intractable economic and social factors that contribute to the financial difficulties that households face today...But poor financial outcomes also result from systematic psychological tendencies," some of which may be countered with government interventions that are both low-cost and scalable," Harvard Kennedy School Professor Brigitte Madrian and co-authors write in the latest issue of Behavioral Science & Policy. Their article outlines a set of interventions that the federal government "could feasibly test or implement to improve household nancial outcomes in a variety of domains: retirement, short-term savings, debt management, the take-up of government benefits, and tax optimization." 
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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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Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn't Declined in 25 Years

October 11, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Arnfinn H. Midtboen, and Ole Hexel. Devah Pager, Director of the Inequality & Social Policy program, is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. Read the authors' orignal study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Using Data to Make More Rapid Progress in Addressing U.S. Social Problems

August 30, 2017

By Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy.

From the Government Performance Lab at Harvard Kennedy School:  In a new piece forthcoming in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Jan 2018), Professor Jeffrey Liebman describes how high frequency use of data can move agencies from static evaluation of programs to real-time improvement in outcomes and to solutions to challenging social problems.... Read more about Using Data to Make More Rapid Progress in Addressing U.S. Social Problems



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. 



Research: Hiring Chief Risk Officers Led Banks to Take on Even More Risk

July 13, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Kim Pernell (University of Toronto), Jiwook Jung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Frank Dobbin (Professor of Sociology, Harvard University). The authors discuss their findings, recently published in the American Sociological Review.
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