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    2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform released

    August 1, 2017
    Education Next | By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Samuel Barrows. This article appears in print in the Winter 2018 issue of Education Next.
    Michael Luca

    Lessons from Yelp's Empirical Approach to Diversity

    September 20, 2017
    Harvard Business Review | By Rachel Williams, Gauri Subramani, Michael Luca, and Geoff Donaker. Michael Luca is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
    A Republic at Risk: In 1787, the challenge was how to keep a fledgling democracy together

    A Republic at Risk: In 1787, the challenge was how to keep a fledgling democracy together

    October 1, 2017
    The Boston Globe | By David A. Moss and Marc Campasano, Harvard Business School. Editor's note: Amid the turmoil of today’s politics, it’s useful, even vital, to step back from the news and contemplate the fundamentals. In that spirit, Moss will lead a public discussion of this case at Faneuil Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, as part of the upcoming HUBweek festival.

    David A. Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the author of Democracy: A Case Study (Harvard University Press, 2017)— which includes this case and 18 more.
    Jason Furman - PIIE Macroeconomic Policy Conference

    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.
    The Gains of Greater Granularity: The Presence and Persistence of Problem Properties in Urban Neighborhoods

    The Gains of Greater Granularity: The Presence and Persistence of Problem Properties in Urban Neighborhoods

    September 5, 2017
    Boston Area Research Initiative | In a recent paper, BARI Co-Directors Dan O’Brien and Chris Winship demonstrated the presence and persistence of ‘‘problem properties’’ with elevated levels of crime and disorder in Boston. Importantly, they find that this additional geographic detail offers a wealth of information beyond the traditional focus on at-risk neighborhoods, and even the more recent attention to hotspot street segments. (Continue reading)

    Chris Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. The paper was published in a special issue of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology on the Law of Concentration of Crime. 
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    Can the Financial Benefit of Lobbying be Quantified?

    Can the Financial Benefit of Lobbying be Quantified?

    January 16, 2018
    Washington Center for Equitable Growth | A look at a new paper by Inequality doctoral fellow Brian Libgober, PhD candidate in Government, and Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, "Lobbying with Lawyers: Financial Market Evidence for Banks' Influence on Rulemaking."
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    David J. Deming

    The Value of Soft Skills in the Labor Market

    January 17, 2018
    NBER Reporter | By David J. Deming (PhD '10), Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. Deming provides an overview of the current state of research on soft skills in the labor market. His own work in this area, "The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market," appears in the November 2017 issue of Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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    Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers

    Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers

    January 12, 2018
    Social Forces | New research by Harvard's Devah Pager and collaborators  Jennifer Hickes Lundquist and Eiko Strader provides one of the first systematic assessments of workplace performance by those with criminal records. Examining military employment records, they find that, overall, the military's screening process can result in successful employment outcomes for those with felony convictions. An important question, they write, is whether the military's 'whole person' review can apply succssfully to the civilian sector. Pager is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard.

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