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    Gauging street change over time

    July 28, 2017

    Harvard Gazette | A new joint Harvard-MIT study uses computer vision algorithm to study Google Street View images to show urban shifts. Among the collaborators: Harvard faculty members Scott Duke Kominers, MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, and Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics.

    The Gazette notes that "using Street View images to track urban change isn't a new idea. In 2014, then-doctoral student Jackelyn Hwang [now Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University] and Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard, published a study that employed volunteers to analyze Street View images and locate signs of gentrification across 3,000 city blocks in Chicago." The new study takes this "a step further by using artificial intelligence to automate the process."

    The Barriers Stopping Poor People From Moving to Better Jobs

    The Barriers Stopping Poor People From Moving to Better Jobs

    October 12, 2017
    The Atlantic | Features research by Peter Ganong, University of Chicago, and Daniel Shoag (PhD '11), Associate Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Also cites Leah Platt Boustan (PhD '06), Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
    Daniel Schlozman

    The Plutocratic Id

    December 4, 2017
    n + 1 | By Daniel Schlozman (PhD '11), Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. 

    "The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a horrifying but aso politically curious document," Schlozman observes. He examines "why a bill so manifestly written to please such a narrow stratum of plutocrats, with so few evident political benefits to a party hoping to retain power, now heads into the home stretch...That this is 'what Republicans do' hardly seems sufficient to make sense of how we got there."
    Adam Looney

    How the new tax bill encourages tax avoidance

    December 14, 2017
    Brookings Institution | By Adam Looney (PhD '04), Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2013 to 2017.

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