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A big Obamacare policy could help fight the heroin epidemic. Politics is holding it back.

May 12, 2016

Vox | Quotes Brendan Saloner (Ph.D. '12), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.



When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

May 12, 2016

Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge | Reviews key findings in the study “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy,” co-authored by Michael Luca, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and colleagues Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin.



Harvard researchers uncover what happens with US gun laws after mass shootings

May 11, 2016

Quartz | Michael Luca, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, talks about new study with HBS colleagues Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin, which finds that Republican-controlled legislatures tend to loosen gun laws after mass shootings.



Deeper learning: More crucial than ever, and yet too rare

May 10, 2016

Seattle Times | Article featuring Jal Mehta (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, who explains what it means to be in search of deeper learning and why it has become more urgent in today's economy.



For the poor in the Ivy League, a full ride isn't always what they imagined

May 16, 2016

Washington Post | Article featuring Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, and his dissertation research on the experience of low-income students at elite colleges and universities.



IZA Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

May 17, 2016

Awardee | Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, is the winner of the 2016 IZA Prize in Labor Economics, awarded by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. The prize is awarded for outstanding academic achievement in labor economics, intended to stimulate research that seeks "answers to the important labor market policy questions of our time." Read a profile of Claudia Goldin in the The University of Chicago Magazine, where Goldin earned her Ph.D., and Goldin's interview in Econ Focus, magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Q4:2014). Learn more about Goldin's latest work at her Harvard Economics homepage.



The Kochs are retreating from national elections. Here's what we should learn.

May 17, 2016

Vox | Cites recent research by Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and of Sociology, and Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy, which has documented the real impact the Koch network is exerting in state-level politics and advocacy.



William Julius Wilson speaks at National Museum of African American History and Culture conference

May 20, 2016

National Museum of African American History and Culture | William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, spoke at "The Future of the African American Past," a three-day event sponsored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Historical Association.
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ESSA Implementation: Perspectives from Education Stakeholders

May 18, 2016

Congressional Testimony | Testimony of Nora Gordon (Ph.D. '02), Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

See Gordon's written testimony, which explains "how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) changes the definition of supplement not supplant, how the Department of Education proposes to regulate it, and the potential for that regulation to cause serious adverse consequences" that could make poor students worse off.



Theda Skocpol delivers 2016 Ramsay Murray Lecture

May 6, 2016

Selwyn College - University of Cambridge| Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, drew a standing room-only audience of more than 300 and a huge ovation for her 2016 Ramsay Murray Lecture on "The Obama Impact", delivered at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. 
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