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What Public Housing Officials Can Teach Us about Overcoming Racial Discrimination

November 20, 2015

Scholars Strategy Network | By Katherine Levine Einstein (Ph.D. '12). This brief summarizes research forthcoming in the  American Journal of Political Science. Read the research here ▶



Authors Discuss Extreme Poverty at HKS Talk

November 11, 2015

Harvard Crimson | Coverage of Malcolm Wiener Center event, "Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day," featuring the authors, Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins) and H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan), and discussion from David T. Ellwood and William Julius Wilson.



Suffrage in America

November 20, 2015

James Madison's Montpelier | Alex Keyssar interviewed in a series of videos for the "Suffrage in America" online course by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. Read more about the course ▶



Class Divides: Despite progress, road to economic success in America steeper for blacks than for whites

November 19, 2015

The Economist | Discusses research by Roland Fryer.



There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room

October 6, 2015

Washington Post | Highlights calculation by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS faculty) that nearly a third of the decrease in U.S. economic inequality between 1940-1980 can be explained by workers moving from poor states to rich ones.
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Barriers to Shared Growth: The Case of Land Use Regulation and Economic Rents

November 20, 2015

Council of Economic Advisers | Remarks by CEA Jason Furman draw on research by Edward Glaeser, Raven Saks Molloy (Ph.D. '05, now Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS), and Albert Saiz (Ph.D. '02, now MIT).



The Future of the Welfare State

November 17, 2015

Policy Network | Peter A. Hall examines the difficulties facing the modern welfare state, the role of predistribution, and the politics of social investment. An excerpt from the Policy Network's new book,  The Predistribution Agenda.



America may be in a reinforcing feedback loop of growing inequality and Republican rule

November 4, 2015

Vox | Delves into informational model put forth by Torben Iversen and David Soskice (LSE) to explain why growing income inequality in the U.S. is associated with polarization in Congress but not in the mass electorate. View Iversen-Soskice's original article in the current issue of Comparative Political Studies ▶



Why Do German Students Learn More, When Their School Get Less Money?

November 9, 2015

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson



Q&A with Michèle Lamont, ASA President-Elect

November 11, 2015

ASA Culture Section | Michèle Lamont, President-elect of the American Sociological Association, interviewed about her plans for the ASA 2017 annual meeting and her own intellectual biography.

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