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    Robert J. Sampson

    Harvard study shows the predictive power of punishing and toxic environments on children's outcomes

    May 17, 2019

    Harvard Gazette
    Coverage of new study by Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, and Robert J. Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, now out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They find that neighborhood measures of lead exposure, violence, and incarceration have strong independent predictive power, on top of standard variables, for children's life outcomes.

    Hope Harvey

    Hope Harvey awarded SSSP Poverty, Class, and Inequality paper prize

    June 15, 2018

    Awardee | Hope Harvey, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, has been awarded the 2018 Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Poverty, Class , and Inequality dvision graduate student paper prize for her paper, "Exchange and Relational Work within Doubled-up Households."

    Hope Harvey will receive her PhD in November 2018, and will be a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, 2018-2020.

    Barbara Kiviat receives ASA Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award in Economic Sociology

    Barbara Kiviat receives ASA Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award in Economic Sociology

    August 10, 2018

    Awardee | Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, is the 2018 recipient of the Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award by the American Sociological Association's section on Economic Sociology, for her paper, "The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from how Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions," published in Socio-Economic Review.

    Barbara Kiviat receives ASA Best Student Paper Award

    Barbara Kiviat receives ASA Best Student Paper Award

    June 19, 2018

    Awardee | Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, is a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award by the American Sociological Association's Consumers and Consumption Section for her paper, "The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from How Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions," published in Socio-Economic Review.

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    Angie Bautista-Chavez

    Angie Bautista-Chavez named a Radcliffe Institute Graduate Student Fellow for 2019–2020

    May 9, 2019

    Harvard Magazine | Angie Bautista-Chavez, PhD candidate in Government, is one of three graduate student fellows who join the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study's 2019-2020 cohort of fellows. Bautista-Chavez's title will be the Edna Newman Shapiro, Class of 1936, and Robert Newman Shapiro, Class of 1972, Graduate Student Fellow. Her dissertation project: Exporting Borders: The Domestic and International Politics of Migration Control.

    Adam Travis named a JCHS John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow

    Adam Travis named a JCHS John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow

    May 7, 2019

    Awardee | Adam Travis, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, has been named a 2019 John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. He is exploring how different coastal real estate markets are responding to global climate change, with a particular focus on the relationship between flood hazards and home prices.

    How the 1 Percent Is Pulling America’s Cities and Regions Apart

    How the 1 Percent Is Pulling America’s Cities and Regions Apart

    April 3, 2019
    CityLab | By Richard Florida.

    The two gravest challenges facing America today, economic inequality and geographic divides, are increasingly intertwined. Economic inequality has surged with nearly all the growth being captured by the 1 percent, and the economic fortunes of coastal superstar cities and the rest of the nation have dramatically diverged.

    These two trends are fundamental to a new study by Robert Manduca, a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University. The study uses census microdata culled from 1980 to 2013, and finds that America’s growing regional divide is largely a product of national economic inequality, in particular the outsized economic gains that have been captured by the 1 percent.

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    The Rise of the 1 Percent Negates Any Progress on the Racial Income Gap

    The Rise of the 1 Percent Negates Any Progress on the Racial Income Gap

    March 12, 2018

    Pacific Standard | Research by Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, shows how the rise in income inequality in the top few percentiles of the distribution helps explain why, more than 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, black-white family income disparities in the U.S remain almost exactly the same as they were in 1968. The study, "Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities," is now out in Sociological Science.
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