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A call to build on differences: In Harvard visit the Aga Khan stresses opportunity in diversity

November 13, 2015

Harvard Gazette | Michèle Lamont, director of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, welcomes the Aga Khan and highlights the significance of his visit in the context of the center's shift to a broader agenda of comparative global and transnational themes, with a focus on inequality and social inclusion.



Too Young for Jail: Why it Makes Sense to Raise the Age of Juvenile Courts

November 17, 2015

The Economist | Discusses recent paper by Vincent Schiraldi, Bruce Western, and Kendra Bradner of the Malcolm Wiener Center's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management.



Causal Analysis of Non-Experimental Data

October 26, 2015

Serious Science | Sociologist Christopher Winship discusses how experimental thinking  can be applied in contexts where experiments are not possible. Part of Serious Science's online project to spread scientific ideas via conversations with scientists.



How has the U.S. treated immigrants and refugees in the past?

November 20, 2015

CNN [video]| Van C. Tran (Ph.D. '11, now Columbia Univ). Interview begins at 1:55 mark.



New RSF grant: Social Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

November 19, 2015

Awardees | Stefanie Stantcheva and Alberto Alesina (Harvard Economics) are the recipients of a Russell Sage Foundation grant to examine how perceptions of social mobility affect support for different types of redistributive policies.



New RSF grant: How Rigid is the Wealth Structure and Why?

March 12, 2015

Awardees | Alexandra Killewald and Fabian Pfeffer (University of Michigan) are the recipients of a Russell Sage Foundation grant, jointly funded with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to assess the strength and pattern of multigenerational wealth associations, and explore the role of intergenerational transfers, home ownership and marriage in wealth mobility across generations.



New RSF grant: 'They Treat Us Like a Different Race': A Multi-city Project on Class-in-Race Inequality

March 12, 2015

Awardees | Jennifer Hochschild and Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07, now Yale University)



Why White House Economists Worry About Land-Use Regulations

November 20, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Delves into papers by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '05, now Federal Reserve Board of Governors) and by Peter Ganong (a Harvard Ph.D. candidate in Economics) and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS faculty), which CEA Chair Jason Furman highlighted in a recent address on the links between land-use regulations, wages, inequality, and intergenerational mobility.



How not to talk about taxes: New York Times promotes misleading language of "loopholes"

November 23, 2015

The Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now a Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings).



The steep cost of incarceration on women of color

November 29, 2015

CNN Money | Bruce Western draws attention to "how profoundly gendered the whole incarceration story is," the ways in which the financial and caretaking burdens of incarceration fall heavily on females when loved ones are incarcerated.

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