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Who will be able to afford college in a decade?

December 10, 2015

Washington Post | Highlights growing gaps in college attainment by family income and new  work by Lindsay C. Page (University of Pittsburgh) and Judith Scott Clayton (Ph.D. '09, now Columbia TC) on improving college access.



Can Google's Street View Images Predict Household Income?

December 10, 2015

The Atlantic | Edward Glaeser, Scott Kominers (Harvard Society of Fellows), Michael Luca (HBS), and Nikhil Naik (MIT) highlight new urban data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities in a new NBER working paper.



Alphachatterbox: Our podcast chat with Claudia Goldin

December 11, 2015

Financial Times [audio: 55 mins]|An in-depth conversation with economist Claudia Goldin about her work on the history of women in the workforce and the causes of the lingering gender wage gap.



The other side of Black Lives Matter

December 14, 2015

The Brookings Institution | William Julius Wilson has been appointed a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings. This is his first piece for their Social Mobility Memos series.



Being a Member of the "Hollowed Out" Middle-Class Never Felt So Good

December 14, 2015

National Review | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09, now Manhattan Institute).



The American Middle Class Meltdown

December 14, 2015

NPR's On Point | Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08, now Washington Center for Equitable Growth) guests, along with Rakesh Kochhar (Pew Research Center), Tyler Cowen (George Mason), and Jacob Hacker (Yale University).



Human Science

December 14, 2015

Inside Higher Ed | Michèle Lamont discusses her new article, co-authored with Veronica Boix Mansilla (HGSE) and Kyoko Sato (Stanford), which explores the determinants of successful interdisciplinary collaboration in the social, natural, and computational sciences: "One takeaway from our paper is that we must pay heed to the way interactions and emotions shape the production of knowledge -- rather than limiting our perspective by focusing solely on the cognitive when we measure success.”



Anthony Abraham Jack named to Harvard Society of Fellows

December 14, 2015

Congratulations to Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology), who has been selected to join the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow in the 2016-19 cohort. The Harvard  Society of Fellows recognizes the ‘highest caliber of intellectual achievement’ from any field of study, awarding three-year postdoctoral fellowships to twelve new Junior Fellows each year. Learn more about Anthony Jack at his homepage▶



Renowned scholar joins Kennedy School and Radcliffe Institute

December 14, 2015

Harvard Gazette | Archon Fung, Acting Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, announced that Khalil Gibran Muhammad will be joining the faculty as professor of history, race, and public policy in July 2016.



Do Republicans Really Want the Black and Latino Vote?

December 15, 2015

The Root | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Prof. of Public Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

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