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Walmart sends wage signal to US business

February 20, 2015

Financial Times | Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)



Want out of poverty? Move.

September 2, 2014

State of Opportunity, Michigan Public Radio | Asad L. Asad, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology



Washington Center for Equitable Growth Announces Inaugural Class of Grantees

July 24, 2014

Awardees | Ryan Sakoda (Ph.D. candidate in Economics), Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy), and Will R. Dobbie (Ph.D. '13)... Read more about Washington Center for Equitable Growth Announces Inaugural Class of Grantees



Wooten, Tom. 2012. We shall not be moved : Rebuilding home in the wake of Katrina. Boston: Beacon Press. Book website



Wealth and Finance in Post Civil-Rights America

July 18, 2015

Harlem Book Fair (C-SPAN2 Book TV) | Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07) of  Yale University joined a panel with Dalton Conley (NYU), William Tabb (Professor Emeritus, Queens College and CUNY), and Damon Phillips (Columbia Business School)



Wealth Inequality

April 23, 2015

2SER Sydney Educational Radio | Conversation with Andrew Leigh, Assistant Shadow Treasurer member for Fraser (Ph.D. '04)



Weather, sharks, and the world economy: the luck of the political cycle

September 30, 2015

Inside Story | By Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04). A former Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and a Member of Parliament for the district of Fraser. This is an edited extract from his new book The Luck of Politics, published earlier this month by Black Inc.

Webinar: Working Families in a Post-Welfare World


January 21, 2015, 1:00-2:00 CST
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty
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In this webinar, Sarah Halpern-Meekin (Ph.D. '09), Kathryn Edin, and Laura Tach (Ph.D. 10) will discuss their new book, It's Not Like I'm Poor, which details how everyday Americans have gotten by... Read more about Webinar: Working Families in a Post-Welfare World



Wei Huang

PhD in Economics, 2016.
President's Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore.


NBER Post-Doctoral Fellow on the Economics of an Aging Workforce, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016-2017.

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Welfare Myths and the Luck of Life

May 28, 2015

Inside Story (Australia) | By Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04)

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