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    Why Diversity Programs Fail

    Why Diversity Programs Fail

    June 21, 2016

    Harvard Business Review | By Frank Dobbin (Professor of Sociology) and Alexandra Kalev (Tel Aviv University). "Companies are basically doubling down on the same approaches they’ve used since the 1960s—which often make things worse, not better," the authors argue. "The very good news is that we know what does work—we just need to do more of it."

    Why Don't You Just Call the Cops?

    Why Don't You Just Call the Cops?

    September 30, 2016

    The New York Times | By Matthew Desmond (Harvard University) and Andrew V. Papachristos (Yale University). The lasting effects of police violence.

    Why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students

    Why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students

    January 8, 2019

    The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo PhD 2005, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University. Reprinted in Times Higher Education, Quartz, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Selected for Five Best Ideas of the Day by The Aspen Institute.

    Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing

    Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing

    February 10, 2017

    The New York Times | "Suppose there were a way to pump up the economy, reduce inequality, and put an end to destructive housing bubbles like the one that contributed to the Great Recession." Discusses recent paper by economists Edward Glaeser of Harvard and Joe Gyourko at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which reviews the basic economics and functioning of the U.S. housing market "to better understand the impacts on home prices, household wealth, and the spatial distribution of people across markets."

    Also cites research by Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11), Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, and Peter Ganong of the University of Chicago, on the role of housing prices in limiting the ability of low-income workers to migrate to higher-wage areas, thereby contributing income inequality.

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