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Who's Going to Vote? New Research Suggests Survey Callers May Know Best

May 31, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | New research by Todd Rogers, Associate Professor of Public Policy.



Curbing Our Enthusiasm Over Rising Home Prices

June 1, 2016

Bloomberg View | Cites study by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, Assistant Professor of Public Policy) that links rising housing prices in wealthy areas to income divergence across regions of the U.S.



What Does It Mean to Be a Republican?

June 4, 2016

The Atlantic | Quotes Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School.



Airbnb says it plans to take action to crack down on racial discrimination on its site

June 2, 2016

Washington Post | Highlights widely-cited study by Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Dan Svirsky of Harvard Business School, who found "widespread discrimination" by Airbnb hosts. Quotes Michael Luca, Assistant Professor at HBS, who argues that "the onus is on Airbnb to make changes" and identifies several possible remedies.



Wicked Smart: Massachusetts's Efforts to Turn Around a Failing School District

June 1, 2016

Chicago Policy Review | Delves into recent study by Beth E. Schueler (Ph.D. '16), Joshua S. Goodman, and David J. Deming. Read the original research, "Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts," NBER Working Paper.



Bringing Back Labor, Without the Unions

May 24, 2016

Bloomberg View | Cites study by Bruce Western (Professor of Sociology and Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice) and Jake Rosenfeld (Washington University in St. Louis), which found that the decline of organized labor between 1973 and 2007 explains one-third of the rise in wage inequality among men during this time (See their ASR article), and by Richard Freeman (Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics) and colleagues, which finds a "strong, though not necessarily causal link between unions, the middle class, and intergenerational mobility." (See Freeman et. al. study)



How Kids Learn Resilience

June 3, 2016

The Atlantic | Notes and discusses economist Roland Fryer's research on incentive schemes in public school systems with high poverty rates: "As a body of work, Fryer’s incentive studies have marked one of the biggest and most thorough educational experiments in American history." Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, generally found no effect on student achievement.



Cities risk being segregated by wealth as inequality spreads

June 1, 2016

Financial Times | Features perspective of Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics.



The Gig Economy is Just Part of the Unsettling New World of Work

June 2, 2016

Bloomberg | Quotes Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, co-author with Alan Krueger of Princeton University of a new study that suggests that "all the net employment growth between 2005-2015 appears to have occurred in alternate work arrangements." (View the research)



New book: Education and Equality, by Danielle Allen

June 7, 2016

This month marks the launch of Danielle Allen's new book, Education and Equality, published by the University of Chicago Press. The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, Harvard Book Store, and Boston Review will host a book discussion with Allen, Professor of Government and Education, as part of the Safra Center's new "Ethics in Your World" speaker series—Jun 7, 7:00-8:00 pm, Harvard Book Store (See event details).

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