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Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women

January 4, 2017

The New York Times | Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard, has a term for this: “retrospective wait unemployment,” or “looking for the job you used to have.”

“It’s not a skill mismatch, but an identity mismatch,” he said. “It’s not that they couldn’t become a health worker, it’s that people have backward views of what their identity is.”



Why men get all the credit when they work with women

November 13, 2015

Washington Post | Heather Sarsons (Ph.D. candidate in Economics) has found that female economists who co-author papers with men pay a significant penalty in their tenure prospects that their male counterparts do not.
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Why More Americans Are Getting Evicted

March 17, 2016

Slate | Interview with Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.



Why More Women Than Ever Are Putting Off Retirement

September 14, 2016

Bloomberg | Cites new research by Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, which lays out the trends in women's increased labor force participation and possible explanations.
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Why Most Economists Are So Worried About Trump

January 11, 2017

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.



Why neither Christie nor Giuliani should be the next attorney general

November 10, 2016

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.



Why neither Christie nor Giuliani should be the next attorney general

November 10, 2016

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, a political theorist at Harvard and a contributing columnist for the Post. "We need to de-politicize the judicial branch to preserve our constitutional fabric," argues Allen. "Appoint a nonpartisan legal figure with a deep record for integrity and public service, who is squeaky clean with regard to conflicts and the appearance of conflict...Only such an appointment will make it clear that the Justice Department will protect liberty and justice for all Americans. There could be no more important early signal for the president-elect to send."



Why neither Trump nor Clinton’s plans will fix Social Security

November 7, 2016

MarketWatch | Features Harvard Kennedy School professor Brigitte Madrian on policy measures that would specifically address the solvency of the Social Security system. Madrian was a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings, which recently issued the report cited in the article.



Why police accountability remains out of reach

July 26, 2019

Washington Post | By Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America. This essay is adapted from a second edition published this month.



Why Sanders Does Better with Independents

April 18, 2016

FiveThirtyEight | By Dan Hopkins (Ph.D. '07), Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.

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