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A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It’s actually not that clear.

October 17, 2016

Washington Post | References new paper by Sendhil Mullinathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, and collaborators Jon Klein and Manish Raghavan, of Cornell University,  which explores inherent tradeoffs in the fair determination of risk scores. "These results," Mullainathan and his co-authors conclude, "suggest some of the ways in which key notions of fairness [in algorithmic classification] are incompatible with each other, and hence provide a framework for thinking about the trade-offs between them."
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A call to build on differences: In Harvard visit the Aga Khan stresses opportunity in diversity

November 13, 2015

Harvard Gazette | Michèle Lamont, director of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, welcomes the Aga Khan and highlights the significance of his visit in the context of the center's shift to a broader agenda of comparative global and transnational themes, with a focus on inequality and social inclusion.



A Bigger Economic Pie, but a Smaller Slice for Half of the U.S.

December 6, 2016

The New York Times | Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, comments on new study on U.S. economic inequality by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Also cited, the work of Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Katz on the race between education and technology as a driver of inequality.



A Better Theory to Explain Financial Bubbles

December 8, 2016

Bloomberg View | Discusses recent paper by Edward L. Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson, "An Extrapolative Model of House-Price Dynamics," forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard. Nathanson is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management.
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A $15 minimum wage, but why just for fast-food workers?

July 28, 2015

The New York Times| Lawrence Katz



911 calls fell in black Milwaukee neighborhoods after Jude beating, study finds

September 28, 2016

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Coverage of new study by Harvard's Matthew Desmond, Andrew Papachristos (Yale University), and David Kirk (University of Oxford). "Desmond said he was shocked when he first saw the size of the drop...'Something like the Frank Jude case tears the fabric apart so deeply and delegitimizes the criminal justice system in the eyes of the African-American community that they stop relying on it in significant numbers,' Desmond told the Journal Sentinel in an interview."



9 Big Ideas That Explain 2016: Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers

September 12, 2016

Politico | By George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They're each telling only half the truth, writes Borjas. One of Politico's "9 Big Ideas That Explain 2016."  




74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

November 3, 2017

The 74 | Harvard's Jal Mehta on why school reforms fail, how they can succeed, and what makes teaching so complex. Jal Mehta (PhD '06) is an asociate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



74 Interview: Harvard Researcher David Deming Takes the Long View on Head Start, Integration

May 10, 2017

The 74 | Professor David Deming (PhD '10) on the lasting benefits of Head Start, school accountability, and integration. Deming is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.



53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama's Legacy

January 15, 2015

New York Magazine | Theda Skocpol

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