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Katerina Linos named 2017 Carnegie Fellow

April 26, 2017

Awardee | Katerina Linos (JD '06, PhD '07) is one of 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the advancement of research in the social sciences and humanities. Linos is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Project title: Refugees Misdirected: Information Barriers in the Exercise of Legal Rights.



Christoper Bail named a 2017 Carnegie Fellow

April 26, 2017

Awardee | Christopher A. Bail (PhD '11) is one of 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the advancement of research in the humanities and social sciences. Bail is the Douglas and Ellen Lowey Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University. Project title: Countering Extremist Narratives on Social Media Via Computational Social Science.



Why did Trump win? More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.

May 8, 2017

Washington Post | By Bernard L. Fraga, Sean McElwee, Jesse Rhodes, and Brian Schaffner. Bernard Fraga (PhD '13) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.



Proud to Be a Taxpayer

May 7, 2017

Chronicle of Higher Education | In The Chronicle Review, Josh Mound reviews Vanessa Williamson's (PhD '16) new book, Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud To Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017). Williamson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.



Taxation With Patriotism

May 6, 2017

PBS The Open Mind | Vanessa Williamson (PhD '16), a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, talks about her new book Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017).



The Culprits Behind White Flight

May 15, 2017

The New York Times | By Leah Boustan (PhD '06), Professor of Economics, Princeton University. Boustan is the author of Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016).



Inherent Flaws

May 15, 2017

Inside Higher Ed | By Natasha K. Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education. The author of a new book about diversity and admissions reflects on helping her son apply to a private school while she was reviewing applicants to a graduate program.



What if Politicians Studied the Social Fabric Like Economists Studied GDP?

May 24, 2017

The Atlantic | Senator Mike Lee's multi-year Social Capital Project. Highlights the project's first report, authored by a Joint Economic Committee research team led by Scott Winship (PhD '09), and its first hearing, which featured testimony from Mario Small and Robert Putnam of Harvard, Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, and Yuval Levin of National Affairs.



The American Dream Abides

May 15, 2017

National Review | By Scott Winship (PhD '09).  Social mobility is still growing strong in the Land of Opportunity, Winship writes. Scott Winship is an honorary adviser to the Archbridge Institute, a new think tank focused on economic mobility. He currently works as project director for the Joint Economic Committee in the Office of Vice Chairmain Senator Mike Lee.



How School Districts Could Be Laboratories of Improvement

May 30, 2017

Governing Magazine | By Andrew Feldman and Thomas Kane. Three ways states could use their new authority to improve academic achievement, particularly in high-poverty urban and rural areas. Andrew Feldman (PhD '07) is a Visiting Fellow in the Center on Children and Families in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Thomas Kane, an economist, is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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