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Prepared Testimony on the House and Senate Tax Reform Bills

December 13, 2017

House Democratic Tax Hearing | By Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. 



The Middle-Class Tax Cut That’s Really a Hike

November 8, 2017

Wall Street Journal | By Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn't Declined in 25 Years

October 11, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Arnfinn H. Midtboen, and Ole Hexel. Devah Pager, Director of the Inequality & Social Policy program, is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. Read the authors' orignal study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Interview with Lawrence Katz

September 25, 2017

The Region—Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Harvard's Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, on the gender pay gap, fissuring workplaces, decling labor share and superstar firms, and the importance of moving to a good neighborhood early in a child's life. 

By Douglas Clement—Lawrence Katz is an institution in labor economics—indeed, in economics as a whole. As editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991, principal investigator of the decades-long Moving to Opportunity Program, co-founder and co-scientific director of J-PAL North America and collaborator with Claudia Goldin in pathbreaking research on the causes and consequences of rising education levels, he has been a singular force in shaping the field. Continue reading ▶️ 



The War on Work and How to End It

June 25, 2017

City Journal | By Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics. An agenda to address joblessness, the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century.



Ending the 'War on Work'

June 28, 2017

City Journal Podcast | Harvard economics professor Edward L. Glaeser joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson discuss the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century: persistent joblessness, particularly among prime-age men. [Audio and transcript]



How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay (Hint: It Isn’t Simple.

November 10, 2017

The New York Times | By Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. 



Achieving the American Dream may depend on where you live

October 26, 2017

PBS NewsHour Making Sen$e | The economists Nathaniel Hendren and Raj Chetty have co-authored studies on social mobility and income inequality. Hendren, who teaches at Harvard University, and Chetty, who teaches at Stanford University, recently spoke with PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman for Thursday’s Making $ense segment. Here is an excerpt of their conversation, which was edited for length and clarity.



Where you grow up matters in an unequal economy. Here's how.

October 26, 2017

PBS NewsHour | Nathaniel Hendren, Professor of Economics, is interviewed for this segement. [Video and full transcript] 



How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution

October 25, 2017

Freakonomics Radio | Joining the conversation are David Laibson, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, and Todd Rogers, Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. [Audio and transcript]

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