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The golden ticket to higher paying jobs: Hard skills plus social skills

November 16, 2017

Boston Globe | A Harvard researcher demonstrates the value of collaboration, even in highly technical fields. Interview with David Deming, a Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Kennedy School.



It's Hard to Be Hungry on Spring Break

March 17, 2018

The New York Times | By Anthony Abraham Jack, PhD '16. It is one thing to extend coveted invitations to poor students in recruiting them, writes Jack. it's another to really prepare for their arrival. Jack is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren't the Hard Part.

September 10, 2019

The New York Times Magazine
By Anthony Abraham Jack PhD 2016. Schools must learn that when you come from poverty, you need more than  financial aid to succeed.

Anthony Abraham Jack is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Harvard University Press, 2019). He received his PhD in Sociology from Harvard in 2016.



Q&A with Will Dobbie: Poverty and the common threads linking criminal justice, education, and consumer finance

September 17, 2019

Harvard Kennedy School | New faculty member Will Dobbie PhD 2013 talks about changing the conversation about poverty through a multidisciplinary approach.



High School Doesn't Have to Be Boring

March 30, 2019

The New York Times | By Jal Mehta PhD 2006 and Sarah Fine. Debate, drama and other extracurriculars provide the excitement many classrooms lack. And they can help overhaul the system, Mehta and Fine argue. The authors spent six years traveling the country studying high schools for their book, In Search of Deeper Learning, just published by Harvard University Press. Mehta is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard. Fine runs a teacher preparation program at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in San Diego.



How to Make High School Better for Students

April 26, 2019

Los Angeles Times | By Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine. Jal Mehta PhD 2006 is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Sarah Fine runs a teacher preparation program at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in San Diego. They are the authors of In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School, Harvard University Press, 2019.



Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years

March 1, 2019

The New York Times | Two new studies by Will Dobbie PhD 2013 of Princeton University (now Harvard Kennedy School) and Crystal Yang PhD 2013, an economist and professor at Harvard Law School, show that inequities in the cash-bail system lead to  long-lasting and pernicious consequences. View the research:

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Proposals for improving the U.S. Pretrial System

March 15, 2019

The Hamilton Project | By Will Dobbie (PhD 2013) and Crystal S. Yang (PhD 2013). Will Dobbie is now Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Crystal S. Yang is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.



Better Bankruptcy Laws Could Make Recessions Less Painful

June 28, 2019

Barron's | New research from Adrien Auclert of Stanford University, Will Dobbie of Harvard University, and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham of Yale University suggests that [a 2005 law discouraging Americans from filing for bankruptcy] worsened the downturn [in the Great Recession]  and hampered the recovery. Will Dobbie PhD 2013 is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.



2019 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2019

American Economics Association | Among the top 10 research highlights of 2019, "Tech: Economists Wanted." An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector. Michael Luca is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

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