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Who are the 2017 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rising Stars?

January 11, 2017

Education Week | Education Week released its annual RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which "recognize those university-based scholars in the U.S. who are doing the most to influence educational policy and practice."

Of the top 10 junior scholars on its "rising star" list, all are Harvard faculty members, doctoral alumni, or both—including Inequality & Social Policy affiliates Martin West (Ph.D. and faculty), Jal Mehta (Ph.D. and faculty), Joshua Goodman (faculty), and Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15, now Columbia University Teachers College). HGSE professor Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (University of California Press, 2015), led the list, which also included HGSE professor Stephanie M. Jones.

Among the Inequality & Social Policy affiliates on the full list of 200 are senior scholars Paul Peterson (Harvard Government), Richard Murnane (HGSE), Roland Fryer (Harvard Economics), Nora Gordon (Ph.D. alum, now Georgetown Public Policy), Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D. alum, now Columbia Business School), Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. alum, now Columbia TC), Ronald Ferguson (HKS), and David Deming (Ph.D. alum and faculty).
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Who Are Immigration's Winners and Losers?

October 17, 2016

WBUR—Radio Boston | Both major party candidates have staked claims on the impact of immigration on the U.S. Harvard economist George Borjas says each side of the debate is ignoring key points about the economic impacts of immigration. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, published this month by W.W. Norton and Company.

Whither the Sanders Left?

September 21, 2016

Democracy Journal| By Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. Part of Democracy's fall symposium on "The Unseen Election".

Whither Central Banking?

August 23, 2019

Project Syndicate | By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stanwbury. Anna Stansbury is a PhD candidate in Economics and a Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.

White people think racism is getting worse. Against white people.

July 21, 2016

Washington Post | By Samuel Sommers (Tufts) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School): Our research found whites think anti-white bias is more of a problem than anti-black bias. Our research also suggests that among whites, there’s a lingering view that the American Dream is a “fixed pie,” such that the advancement of one group of citizens must come at the expense of all the other groups.
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White gloves, aluminum cans, and plasma

May 11, 2016

Marketplace: The Uncertain Hour (podcast)| A look back at how families have fared in the two decades since welfare reform, with perspectives from David Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty [audio: 34 minutes].

Which Police Strategies Work?

March 4, 2016

Pacific Standard | A new report by Thomas Abt and Christopher Winship examines data from more than 1,400 studies of programs such as broken windows policing, gun buybacks, therapy, and other attempts to curtail death and violence in American cities. Christopher Winship is the Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology; Thomas Abt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Malcolm Wiener Center's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management.