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    One Simple Trick that Boosts Kids' College Graduation Rates

    One Simple Trick that Boosts Kids' College Graduation Rates

    February 15, 2016

    Pacific Standard | Examines new study co-authored by doctoral fellow Preeya Mbekeani (Ed.D. candidate), which found that providing four additional SAT score reports for free to low-income students increased college access and completion rates.

    Olivia Chi

    Olivia Chi: Emerging Education Policy Scholars program

    September 4, 2018

    Thomas B. Fordham Institute | Olivia Chi, a PhD candidate in Education, has been selected for the 2018-2019 cohort of Emerging Education Policy Scholars, a program of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Insitute that brings together newly-minted PhD scholars and PhD candidates to the nation's capital to meet with education-policy experts and to share and brainstorm new directions for K–12 education research. Olivia's own research interests include the economics of education, teacher labor markets, and policies that reduce educational inequality.

    Nudge Yields Big Results with Subtle Changes

    Nudge Yields Big Results with Subtle Changes

    February 15, 2016

    WUTC—Start it Up [audio: 29 min] | Interview with Elizabeth Linos, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and a member of the Behavioral Insights Team. Linos explains how the Behavioral Insights Team is employing "nudge theory" in cities across the US to modify behaviors and create positive change—from increasing the diversity of police departments to getting delinquent taxpayers to willingly ante up... Read more about Nudge Yields Big Results with Subtle Changes

    New Koch: Rebranding the Koch Brothers

    New Koch: Rebranding the Koch Brothers

    January 25, 2016

    The New Yorker | Highlights new, data-rich study by Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology) and Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) on grassroots mobilizations by the Koch Network. Read their paper, “The Koch Effect: The Impact of a Cadre-Led Network on American Politics and Policy," which includes early results from a collaborative study of “The Shifting U.S. Political Terrain” under way at Harvard University.

    RSF

    New Awards in Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

    May 18, 2017

    Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation announced four new awards from its small grant competition in intergenerational mobility, three of which will support research by Harvard Inequality & Social Policy affiliates:

    • Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard University)
      Did Great Migration Destinations become Mobility Traps?
      Ellora Derenoncourt is a PhD candidate in Economics.
       
    • Ryan D. Enos (Harvard University)
      Do Public Works Programs Increase Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from the Works Progress Administration
      Ryan Enos is Associate Professor of Government.
       
    • James J. Feigenbaum (Princeton University), Maximillian Hell (Stanford University), and Robert Manduca (Harvard University)
      The American Dream in the Great Depression: Absolute Income Mobility in the United States, 1915-1940
      James Feigenbaum (Harvard PhD '16) is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In fall 2017 he will join the Boston University faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics. Maximillian Hell is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University.  Robert Manduca is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard University.

    Read the project abstracts

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