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    After Trump: How authoritarian voters will change American politics

    After Trump: How authoritarian voters will change American politics

    April 28, 2016

    Vox | Quotes Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Vanessa S. Williamson (Ph.D. '14), Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Also cites research of Skocpol and Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) showing that wealthy donor networks have largely supplanted the GOP in the share of financial resources available for conservative causes and candidates.

    After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

    After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

    November 15, 2016

     

    Harvard University Press | Ellora Derenoncourt, Ph.D. candidate in Economics, is a contributor to After Piketty, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in April 2017. Edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, and Marshall Steinbaum, the 640-page volume brings together published reviews by Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow and newly-commissioned essays by Suresh Naidu, Laura Tyson, Michael Spence, Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essays examine the book's implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies in a substantial concluding chapter.

    Derenoncourt's chapter explores the historical and institutional origins of the wealth and income inequality documented in Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Drawing on the framework introduced by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson of extractive and inclusive institutions, Derenoncourt demonstrates how these institutions influence the distribution of economic outcomes in different countries and regions historically. In particular, she explores these questions in the context of slavery in the US South and European colonization in Africa and the Americas.

    Learn more about her work:
    Ellora Derenoncourt: Ph.D. fellow page ▶... Read more about After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

    After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves

    After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves

    January 25, 2013

    Harvard Gazette
    Tom Wooten (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) discusses his latest book, which profiles grassroots recovery efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

    Adam Travis named a JCHS John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow

    Adam Travis named a JCHS John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow

    May 7, 2019

    Awardee | Adam Travis, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, has been named a 2019 John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. He is exploring how different coastal real estate markets are responding to global climate change, with a particular focus on the relationship between flood hazards and home prices.

    Abena Subira Mackall named NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow

    Abena Subira Mackall named NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow

    May 25, 2017
    National Academy of Education | Abena Subira Mackall, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been named 2017 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Abena's research explores the mechanisms underlying associations between poverty, crime, and low educational attainment through the use of in-depth interviews.
    Abena Subira Mackall awarded AERA Dissertation Travel Award to participate in Annual Meeting

    Abena Subira Mackall awarded AERA Dissertation Travel Award to participate in Annual Meeting

    May 11, 2016

    Awardee | Abena Subira Mackall, doctoral candidate in Education, has been awarded the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Travel Award to present her dissertation research at the 2017 annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The 2017 meeting theme is "Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity." Read more about Mackall's research at her homepage.

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