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Understanding the Sources of Inequality

August 11, 2015

National Bureau of Economic Research | Roland Fryer talks about the economics of inequality and the central questions that drive his research in this NBER video chat (4 minutes).



US tax reform is vital but Donald Trump’s plan is flawed

January 8, 2017

Financial Times | By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University. This column also ran in the Washington Post.



Video: Matthew Desmond Testifies before House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee

April 14, 2016

U.S. House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee | Testimony of Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences, House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing, "The Failure of Trickle Down Economics in the War on Poverty." 



Voter Suppression Returns

July 15, 2012

Harvard Magazine | by Alexander Keyssar



Voting rights, unsettled

October 25, 2016

Harvard Gazette  | Interview with Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School."Let me also make a distinction between disenfranchisement and voter suppression. ... What’s going on now is mostly a matter of suppression — and for a lot of people, it’s making it close to impossible to vote," said Harvard Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar.



Wage inequality: The spatial dimension

July 18, 2016

Vox EU | By Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James Davis, Richard B. Freeman (Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard). Shifting the focus to where you work to understand the rise in inequality in recent decades.
View the research (Journal of Labor Economics)



Waiting in Line for the Illusion of Security

May 27, 2016

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan (Robert G. Waggoner Professor of Economics) and Richard H. Thaler (University of Chicago).



Want to Feel Less Time-Stressed? Here’s one surprisingly effective solution: Give some time away.

December 11, 2016

Wall Street Journal | By Cassie Mogilner Holmes (UCLA) and Michael I. Norton (HBS). "Our results show that spending time on others increases feelings of time affluence by increasing self-efficacy, or that (rare) feeling of being able to accomplish all that we set out to do."

Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and a member of Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group.



Was Moynihan Right? What happens to the children of unmarried mothers

December 10, 2014

Education Next | by Sarah McLanahan and Christopher Jencks



Watch: Populism and the Future of American Politics

November 10, 2016

American Academy of Arts & Sciences | Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Lawrence D. Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, and Charles Stewart III of MIT.

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