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Racially divided communities, voting patterns and new research on threat perceptions

April 15, 2015

Journalist's Resource | Discussion of Ryan Enos's findings and related research on gentrification by Robert J. Sampson and Jackelyn Hwang, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy



Racial and economic disparities intertwined, study shows

October 25, 2018

Harvard Gazette | By many measures, the U.S. has made important strides when it comes to Civil Rights: The racial gaps in educational achievement, life expectancy, and wages, though still considerable, have all narrowed measurably in the past 50 years. Yet in one marker of fundamental importance — family income — disparities between black and white have remained virtually unchanged since 1968.


In a study published in Sociological Science, Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, argues that a major reason that economic disparities between the races remain so large is rising income inequality nationwide.

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Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: How do Rohingya Explain Concepts that Undermine their Existence?

April 9, 2019

The Globe Post | By Cresa Pugh, PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy. Based on her research into the historical roots of Rohingya persecution, which explores how perceptions and notions of identity produce conflict.



Queenie Zhu receives ASA Sociology of Education Outstanding Graduate Student Paper award

July 9, 2015

Awardee | Queenie Zhu, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy... Read more about Queenie Zhu receives ASA Sociology of Education Outstanding Graduate Student Paper award



Punishing and toxic neighborhood environments independently predict the intergenerational social mobility of black and white children

April 16, 2019

PNAS | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, and Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



Proof that Women Get Less Credit for Teamwork

February 9, 2016

Harvard Business Review | Delves into research by doctoral fellow Heather Sarsons (Ph.D. candidate in Economics), which explores whether bias arising from group work explains the gender promotion gap. To view the research, see Heather Sarsons's website.



Populism and the Paradox of Welfare Chauvinists

May 4, 2016

Mobilizing Ideas | By Noam Gidron, Ph.D. candidate in Government.



Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement

May 16, 2017

Yale Law Journal | By Monica C. Bell, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Bell joins the faculty of Yale Law School as Associate Professor of Law in fall 2017. Read more about Monica Bell's work at her homepage: ​​​​​
scholar.harvard.edu/bell



Ph.D. fellow research cited in amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Fair Housing Act

October 10, 2016

Research by Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellows Jackelyn Hwang (Ph.D. '15), Michael Hankinson, and Steven Brown is part of an amicus curiae brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a robust enforcement of the Fair Housing Act to prevent and remedy discrimination in mortgage lending. 

Their research, published in Social Forces, examined the relationship between segregation and subprime lending across the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. They found that residential segregation created “distinct geographic markets that enabled subprime lenders and brokers to leverage the spatial proximity of minorities to disproportionately target minority neighborhoods.” They conclude that "segregation played a pivotal role in the housing crisis by creating relatively larger areas of concentrated minorities into which subprime loans could be efficiently and effectively channeled."

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Jackelyn Hwang (Ph.D. '15) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. In fall 2017, she joins the faculty at Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Sociology.

Michael Hankinson is a Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy.

Steven Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an affiliated scholar in the Executive Office at the Urban Institute. He is also a contributor to the Inequality and Mobility Initiative at the Urban Institute.... Read more about Ph.D. fellow research cited in amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Fair Housing Act



Oren Danieli: Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics

December 5, 2018

Awardee | Oren Danieli, PhD candidate in Business Economics, is the 2019 recipient of the Harvard Business School Martin Award for Excellence, based on excellence in innovative dissertation research. From the award announcement: "Danieli develops novel approaches to study of income inequality. He has developed a big-data method to optimize social experiments aimed at increasing income mobility, used machine-learning tools to improve hiring of teachers and policemen, and created a new method to study wage polarization." Learn more about Oren Danieli's research:

orendanieli.com »

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