PhD in Health Policy, 2020. Postdoctoral Researcher, National Bureau of Economic Research (2020-2021). Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame (beginning 2021).
Harvard Graduate School Alumni Day | By Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, who delivered the keynote address at Harvard GSAS Alumni Day 2017.
Harvard Gazette | "At 11:43 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2015, I sent an email. And it changed my life." Anthony Abraham Jack argues we need to recast what it means to ask for help--not a sign of weakness, but a skill to be honed. Jack is Assistant Professor of Education and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Awardee | Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. in Public Policy, '15) is a recipient of the 2016 Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award conferred by the Association of Education Finance and Policy for exemplary dissertation research in education finance and policy. Cohodes is now Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Awardee | Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. in Public Policy '09), Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is the 2016 recipient of the American Educational Research Association Early Career Award in Educational Policy. Scott-Clayton studies labor economics and higher education policy, with a focus on financial aid, student employment, and programmatic barriers to college persistence and completion. Her work examining the adverse consequences of complexity in the federal student aid application process has contributed to national policy debates about financial aid simplification.
C-SPAN—American History TV | Interview with historian Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. The interview took place at the 2016 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in April. Rigueur is the author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, now out in paperback from Princeton University Press.
Wall Street Journal | Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research announced the gift, which is aimed at study of residents in poor neighborhoods in the Greater Boston area. "Leading the new research project, which Mr. Hutchins referred to as the crown jewel of the center, is Prof. William Julius Wilson, who has spent most of his career studying poverty in inner cities." Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard.
Washington Post | Harvard analysts assess Brexit's implications, including Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies. "Euro-skeptical parties on the radical right and left of the political spectrum have been encouraged by the British vote to demand similar referenda in their own countries,” Hall said. “But mainstream political leaders are anxious to prevent this. They can only do so if they retain power, and that will be their first priority. They can only do so if they can revive economic growth in Europe and limit the backlash against immigration. That will be very difficult to do.”
Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government), Samuel Barrows (Ph.'14, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Educational Policy and Governance at Harvard), and Thomas Gift (also a postdoctoral fellow).