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Why Are Black Americans at Greater Risk of Being Poor?

August 10, 2015

Newsweek | Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07)



College placement exam comes under new scrutiny

August 8, 2015

Boston Globe | Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. '09)



Starting Over: Many Katrina victims left New Orleans for good. What can we learn from them?

August 17, 2015

The New Yorker | Robert Sampson, Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07)



Why American Teens Aren't Working Summer Jobs Anymore

August 7, 2015

Bloomberg Business | Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01)



"Cowboy Doctors" and Health Costs

August 20, 2015

Harvard Magazine | Ariel Dora Stern (HBS faculty and Ph.D. '14)



Social Skills May Be the Key to Career Success

August 21, 2015

The Atlantic | Discussion of new NBER working paper by David Deming (Faculty and Ph.D. '10): "The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market." (Ungated version ►)



Humans possess skills that make them far superior to robots

August 21, 2015

Business Insider | David J. Deming (Faculty, Ph.D. '10)



Fafsa Follies: To Gain a Student, Eliminate a Form

August 21, 2015

The New York Times |Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan) highlights findings of research with Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. '09). They detailed how an application-free financial aid system could work in an earlier Hamilton Project discussion paper ►



First Year, First Generation: Consider the placement test

August 20, 2015

WHYY Newsworks | Judith Scott-Clayton's (Ph.D. '09) research on the consequences of misplacement in remedial classes, which has set off a wave of reform, particularly among community colleges.



The racial gap in health has been shrinking for decades--but it still hasn't closed

December 29, 2014

Washington Post | Leah Platt Boustan (Ph.D. '06)

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