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Why the Economic Fates of America's Cities Diverged

November 28, 2015

The Atlantic | Highlights research by Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now Harvard Kennedy School faculty) and Peter Ganong (Harvard Ph.D. candidate in Economics) on the importance of regional income convergence in reducing U.S. wage inequality between 1940-1980 and explanations for declining convergence in recent decades.



Clinton's endorsements: Smart politics for activists, or campaigns?

November 24, 2015

The Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now a Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings). Also includes perspectives from Daniel Schlozman (Ph.D. '11, now Johns Hopkins University), author of When Movements Anchor Parties, published earlier this year by Princeton University Press.



Employer Bans on Credit Hurt Those They Mean to Help

November 30, 2015

U.S. News & World Report | New study by Robert Clifford (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now Harvard Kennedy School faculty). 
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Event video: Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day

November 27, 2015

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, the focus of the Malcolm Wiener Center book event with authors Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University) and H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan), has been selected as one of 100 Notable Books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review.

Edin and Shaefer were joined for a discussion with David T. Ellwood and William Julius Wilson, November 10, 2015, at the Harvard Kennedy School. 
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Opportunity, responsibility, and security: A consensus plan for reducing poverty and restoring the American Dream

December 3, 2015

A joint AEI-Brookings event | David T. Ellwood, a member of the working group that developed the plan, outlined three fundamental ideas that drove their work at a launch event held at the National Press Club. The proposal grew out a shared belief that poverty and economic mobility are urgent issues for the nation's future, and that if the U.S. is to move forward in reducing poverty and increasing opportunity, those on the political left and right must find a way to overcome the political polarization that threatens prospects for progress.

AEI and Brookings, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Ford Foundation, convened a group of 15 poverty experts, reflecting diverse ideological and intellectual perspectives, who worked over 14 months to identify core areas of agreement and to craft a comprehensive plan based on strong empirical evidence.
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2015 Dec 07

Paul Jargowsky: The Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy

12:00pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room

Paul A. Jargowsky, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE), Rutgers University–Camden.
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Ted Cruz cited this research when he said most violent criminals are Democrats. Now the researchers say he's wrong.

December 2, 2015

Washington Post | By Marc Meredith (University of Pennsylvania) and Michael Morse (Ph.D. student in Government). Meredith and Morse, authors of the 2014 paper cited by Cruz, detail how their research does not support his claim. Also noted in their reply: research by Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07, now Yale University) and Traci Burch (Ph.D. '07, now Northwestern University).



How fringe attacks on American Muslims became mainstream

December 3, 2015

Washington Post | By Christopher Bail (Ph.D. '11, now UNC-Chapel Hill). How anti-Muslim sentiment becomes mainstream and what might be done to stem the tide.



'Our Kids' selected for Books of the Year 2015

December 3, 2015

The Economist | Robert Putnam's, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, described as "thoughtful and persuasive", has been selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2015.  Also making the list, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony Atkinson (University of Oxford).



How a Conservative-Led Australia Ended Mass Killings

December 4, 2015

The New York Times | Delves into 2010 study by Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04), which estimated that gun suicides per 100,000 people fell 65 percent, and the rate of gun homicides 59 percent, in the decade following Australia's adoption of a national gun control agreement. At the time of the study, Leigh was a professor of economics at Australian National University. He is now a Labor MP in Australia's Parliament.

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