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The New Nativism: Where's the latest backlash against immigration coming from?

December 3, 2015

Radio OpenSource | With guest Helen B. Marrow (Ph.D. '07, now Tufts University).



The window tax—an open and shut case

December 4, 2015

Financial Times | Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04) research on Australia's "baby bonus" noted in an article about the ways in which people adjust behavior to avoid taxes.



Can America Learn from Australia's Gun Laws?

December 5, 2015

BBC World Service [transcript] | Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04) guests. Leigh analyzed the effects of Australia's gun laws in a 2010 paper, written when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University. He's now a member of the Australian Parliament.



Standardized testing works, depending on where you went to school

December 2, 2015

Boston Globe | David Deming (Ph.D. '10, now faculty) discusses results from a new study, , which presents the first evidence of the influence of test-based accountability measures on long-term student outcomes. Co-authored with Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15, now Columbia TC), Jennifer Jennings (NYU), and Christopher Jencks, the study appears in the winter 2016 issue of Education Next.




Inspiring Memoirs Tell Journey From Child Farm Worker to Academic

December 7, 2015

NBC News | Tomás Jiménez (Ph.D. '05, now Stanford University),  talks about his father's influence on his childhood and his own scholarly work in this feature profile of his father, Professor Francisco Jiménez of Santa Clara University. Francisco Jiménez has recently published a fourth volume in an award-winning series of memoirs for young readers.



Baltimore Renters Turn to Judge Judy to Navigate Eviction Flood

December 7, 2015

Bloomberg Business | Matthew Desmond notes that evictions often start a vicious cycle, forcing tenants into homelessness or substandard housing.



What's Replacing No Child Left Behind?

December 7, 2015

Harvard EdCast | Martin West (Ph.D. '06, now faculty) discusses the big changes in federal legislation replacing No Child Left Behind, and what it may mean.



Christmas in April

December 8, 2015

No Jargon [Podcast—Ep. 11] | Laura M. Tach (Ph.D. '10, now Cornell University) discusses the Earned Income Tax Credit and explains why it is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in America. This Scholars Strategy Network podcast presents interviews with top university scholars on the politics, policy problems, and social issues facing the nation. Subscribe  in iTunes, or listen to individual episodes at the SSN website.



Doug Elemendorf Unleashed

December 9, 2015

The Brookings Institution | "Now that Doug Elmendorf is no longer director of the Congressional Budget Office, he's speaking his mind." In a new video series, incoming HKS Dean Douglas Elmendorf, currently a visiting fellow at Brookings, offers short answers to questions about the federal budget, tax reform, inequality, and other current economic debates. Videos 1, 4, and 6 focus particularly on inequality and economic mobility.



Ariel White named a Harvard Horizons Scholar

December 10, 2015

Awardee | Ariel R. White (Ph.D. candidate in Government) has been selected one of eight Harvard Horizons Scholars for 2016—"PhD students whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape their disciplines." Ariel will present her research, Voter Behavior in the Shadow of Punitive Policies, at a university-wide symposium to be held in Sanders Theater on April 5, 2016. Read more about her work ►

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