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A Big Financial Boost for Low-Income Families

April 8, 2015

Pacific Standard | Jennifer Sykes (Ph.D. '11)



A Better Theory to Explain Financial Bubbles

December 8, 2016

Bloomberg View | Discusses recent paper by Edward L. Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson, "An Extrapolative Model of House-Price Dynamics," forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard. Nathanson is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management.
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A Better Government, One Tweak at a Time

September 25, 2015

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)



A 'Lost Generation Of Workers': Youth Unemployment

July 2, 2014

National Public Radio | Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08)



A $15 minimum wage, but why just for fast-food workers?

July 28, 2015

The New York Times| Lawrence Katz



911 calls fell in black Milwaukee neighborhoods after Jude beating, study finds

September 28, 2016

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Coverage of new study by Harvard's Matthew Desmond, Andrew Papachristos (Yale University), and David Kirk (University of Oxford). "Desmond said he was shocked when he first saw the size of the drop...'Something like the Frank Jude case tears the fabric apart so deeply and delegitimizes the criminal justice system in the eyes of the African-American community that they stop relying on it in significant numbers,' Desmond told the Journal Sentinel in an interview."



9 Big Ideas That Explain 2016: Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers

September 12, 2016

Politico | By George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They're each telling only half the truth, writes Borjas. One of Politico's "9 Big Ideas That Explain 2016."  




74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

November 3, 2017

The 74 | Harvard's Jal Mehta on why school reforms fail, how they can succeed, and what makes teaching so complex. Jal Mehta (PhD '06) is an asociate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



74 Interview: Harvard Researcher David Deming Takes the Long View on Head Start, Integration

May 10, 2017

The 74 | Professor David Deming (PhD '10) on the lasting benefits of Head Start, school accountability, and integration. Deming is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.



6 charts showing race gaps within the American middle class

October 21, 2016

Brookings Institution | Latest Social Mobility Memo by Richard V. Reeves and Dana Bowen Matthew of the Brookings Institution features findings of new study by Judith-Scott Clayton (Ph.D. '09), Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Jing-Li, also of Columbia University, revealing large black-white disparities in student loan debt, which more than triples after graduation.

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