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    A Conversation with Jeb Bush [video]

    A Conversation with Jeb Bush [video]

    September 29, 2016

    Harvard IOP | A conversation with Jeb Bush, moderated by Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, and Roland Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, in the JFK Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School.

    A conversation on immigration and policy

    A conversation on immigration and policy

    March 30, 2016

    Bloggingheads.tv | Economist Glenn Loury (Brown University) talks immigration with George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. [video: 39 minutes]

    A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It’s actually not that clear.

    A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It’s actually not that clear.

    October 17, 2016

    Washington Post | References new paper by Sendhil Mullinathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, and collaborators Jon Klein and Manish Raghavan, of Cornell University,  which explores inherent tradeoffs in the fair determination of risk scores. "These results," Mullainathan and his co-authors conclude, "suggest some of the ways in which key notions of fairness [in algorithmic classification] are incompatible with each other, and hence provide a framework for thinking about the trade-offs between them."
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    A Bigger Economic Pie, but a Smaller Slice for Half of the U.S.

    A Bigger Economic Pie, but a Smaller Slice for Half of the U.S.

    December 6, 2016

    The New York Times | Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, comments on new study on U.S. economic inequality by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Also cited, the work of Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Katz on the race between education and technology as a driver of inequality.

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