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A Conversation with Robert D. Putnam [Video]

March 14, 2016

Conversations with Bill Kristol | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, discusses declining levels of civic participation in America and his interpretation of the reasons for it. He also recalls how political developments awakened his interest in political science, and explains how social science might help us address public policy problems. [Video: 70 minutes]



Interview with William Julius Wilson

March 16, 2016

Vermont Public Radio | William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, talks about race, class, growing economic segregation and class disparities, and the Black Lives Matter movement [text and audio: 7:37 minutes].

Event video: Matthew Desmond on Evicted

March 3, 2016




A Malcolm Wiener Center
for Social Policy event
The launch of Matthew Desmond's new book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, was the occasion of a book event sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center at Harvard Kennedy School.

Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard, was joined by a panel of experts, moderated by Bruce Western, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center, including William Julius Wilson of Harvard University, Xavier de Souza Briggs of the Ford Foundation, and Jennifer Gonnerman of The New Yorker.



How 'Pay for Success' Allows Governments to Experiment without Risk

March 23, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast | Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, explains the Pay For Success model, also known as Social Impact Bonds, which he has been piloting across the country through the Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab [audio: 32 minutes].



The Impact of High Levels of Immigration on U.S. Workers

March 16, 2016

U.S. Senate—Testimony | George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner of Economics and Social Policy. Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. 



Should non-cognitive skills be included in school accountability systems? Preliminary Evidence from California's CORE Districts

March 17, 2016

Brookings Institution—Evidence Speaks | By Martin R. West (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor of Education and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings.



Alex Keyssar on President Obama's Historic Trip to Cuba

March 21, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | Q & A with Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy.



What Growing Inequality Means for Our Kids

March 24, 2016

WGBH Greater Boston | Interview with Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy [video: 7 minutes].



Why More Americans Are Getting Evicted

March 17, 2016

Slate | Interview with Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.



Satellite Images Can Pinpoint Poverty Where Surveys Can’t

April 3, 2016

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics.

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