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Who's Going to Vote? New Research Suggests Survey Callers May Know Best

May 31, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | New research by Todd Rogers, Associate Professor of Public Policy.



Who's Afraid of a Health-Care Ruling?

February 20, 2015

The Atlantic | By Theda Skocpol



Who Wins and Who Loses? Debunking 7 Persistent Tax Reform Myths

October 22, 2015

Center for American Progress | Cites research presented by Stefanie Stantcheva in the Inequality Seminar last spring, "Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes:  A Tale of Three Elasticities," co-athored with Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley).



Who Will Pay the Political Price for Affordable Housing?

July 15, 2015

The New York Times | Quotes Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, Robert Putnam. Refers to Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz research on effects of better neighborhoods on children.



Who Says You Need Tax Breaks for Retirement Saving?

May 11, 2017

Bloomberg | Quoted: Behavioral economist Brigitte Madrian of the Harvard Kennedy School.



Who Read What in 2016

December 7, 2016

Wall Street Journal | What Matthew Desmond and 49 others named as their favorite book this year. Desmond is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the author of Evicted.



Who Owns the Robots Rules the World: The Deeper Threat of Robotization

April 15, 2016

Harvard Magazine | By Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics



Who is Delrawn Small? Why Some Police Shootings Get Little Media Attention

July 26, 2016

NPR Code Switch | Quotes Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, on the media's tendency to report through the lens of the police instead of the victim, and the persistence of the police narrative even when it turns out to be wrong.



Who is affirmative action for?

June 23, 2016

Boston Globe | By Natasha Kumar Warikoo (Ph.D. '05), Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Why ultimately the narrow diversity defense of affirmative action is harmful, Warikoo argues. Draws from her forthcoming book based on research with undergraduates at Ivy League universities, The Diversity Bargain (University of Chicago Press).



Who Gets to Vote?

September 30, 2016

The New York Times | By Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about Who Gets to Vote?

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