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Why Most Economists Are So Worried About Trump

January 11, 2017

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.



Why More Women Than Ever Are Putting Off Retirement

September 14, 2016

Bloomberg | Cites new research by Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, which lays out the trends in women's increased labor force participation and possible explanations.
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Why More Americans Are Getting Evicted

March 17, 2016

Slate | Interview with Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.



Why men get all the credit when they work with women

November 13, 2015

Washington Post | Heather Sarsons (Ph.D. candidate in Economics) has found that female economists who co-author papers with men pay a significant penalty in their tenure prospects that their male counterparts do not.
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Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women

January 4, 2017

The New York Times | Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard, has a term for this: “retrospective wait unemployment,” or “looking for the job you used to have.”

“It’s not a skill mismatch, but an identity mismatch,” he said. “It’s not that they couldn’t become a health worker, it’s that people have backward views of what their identity is.”



Why many black politicians backed the 1994 crime bill

February 12, 2016

Slate | Interview with Michael Javen Fortner (Ph.D. '10), now City University of New York, who argues the need for a more complex understanding of the origins and unintended consequences of the 1994 crime bill.



Why losing a home means losing everything

February 29, 2016

Washington Post | Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Professor of Social Science, talks about his new book, Evicted.



Why letting ex-felons vote probably won’t swing Florida

November 2, 2018

Vox | By Marc Meredith and Michael Morse. We analyzed ex-felons with voting rights. Their party affiliation is more mixed than you might think. Michael Morse is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard. Marc Meredith is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.



Why Judges Tilt to the Right

January 31, 2015

New York Times | Maya Sen



Why Investing is So Complicated, and How to Make It Simpler

July 11, 2015

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan

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