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'Pay for Success' in the UK and the US

August 8, 2016

Oxford Government Review | By Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, in the inaugural issue of the Oxford Government Review (p. 50). Liebman and Elizabeth Linos (Ph.D. '16) spoke at the Challenges of Government Conference 2016, held at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government in May 2016. Conference summaries and videos are also included at the link.



'Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis', by Robert Putnam

March 6, 2015

Financial Times | Robert D. Putnam



'Our Kids,' by Robert D. Putnam

March 4, 2015

New York Times Book Review| Robert Putnam



'Our Kids' selected for Books of the Year 2015

December 3, 2015

The Economist | Robert Putnam's, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, described as "thoughtful and persuasive", has been selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2015.  Also making the list, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony Atkinson (University of Oxford).



'Our Kids' review: Concerned, scholarly

April 20, 2015

The Guardian | Robert Putnam



'Lives in Limbo' is a finalist for C. Wright Mills Award

May 12, 2017

Society for the Study of Social Problems | The Society for the Study of Social Problems announced its five finalists for its 2016 C. Wright Mills Award, including Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, by Roberto G. Gonzales, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The prestigious C. Wright Mills Award recognizes the most outstanding book  that "advances social scientific understanding" on "an issue of contemporary public importance." The winner will be announced on August 12, 2017, at the annual meeting of the... Read more about 'Lives in Limbo' is a finalist for C. Wright Mills Award



'It is a terrible mistake' to vote on health care bill without a CBO score, the former director says

May 4, 2017

Marketplace | Interview with Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy. Elmendorf served as director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2009 to 2015.



'If the goal was to get rid of poverty, we failed': the legacy of the 1996 welfare reform

June 20, 2016

Vox | An in-depth look at welfare reform 20 years on: the history of US welfare policy and origins of welfare reform, implementation of the 1996 law, assessments of its effects on poverty, and the policy discussion today among poverty experts. Quoted or featured in the piece: Mary Jo Bane, David Ellwood, Christopher Jencks, and William Julius Wilson, all of the Harvard Kennedy School.



'I don't go to lawyers': Professor Sara Sternberg Greene examines the inaction gap

April 16, 2015

Duke Law Magazine | Profile of Sara Sternberg Greene (Ph.D. '14); Christopher Winship quoted.  The research discussed in this article, "Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice," is available at SSRN.



'Here And Now': Matthew Desmond Explores Milwaukee's Eviction Epidemic

March 7, 2016

Wisconsin Public Television | Interview with Matthew Desmond [video 6:45 minutes]

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