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20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform': How Has America Fared?

August 22, 2016

The Atlantic | By Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. "TANF offered states a lot of flexibility to innovate, to allow a flowering of new ideas to help the poor. But that’s not what the country got," write Edin and Shaefer. "Instead it got a new kind of welfare queens: states. States, not people, are using TANF to close the holes in their budgets. It is states, not people, who are falling prey to the “perverse disincentives” of welfare."

Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Shaefer, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, spoke about their book, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, in a Malcolm Wiener Center event at the Harvard Kennedy School in November 2015.
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15 Professors the Year: Roberto G. Gonzales

September 14, 2017

Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson | Roberto Gonzales has done extensive research on undocumented immigrant youth and young adult populations in America. An interview.

15 Professors of the Year: Danielle S. Allen

September 14, 2017

Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson |Danielle Allen, one of the 15 Professors of 2017, has been trying to shift the conversation from inequality to equality. An interview.

101 economists defend the'Cadillac tax'

October 1, 2015

Letter to Congress | A group of prominent health economists and policy analysts issued a statement urging that Congress take no action to weaken the Cadillac tax "unless and until it enacts an alternative tax change that would more effectively curtail cost growth." Signatories include Amitabh Chandra, David Cutler, David Ellwood, Douglas Elmendorf, Lawrence Katz, Tom Vogl (Ph.D. '11), and Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01).

'The Space Between Us'

January 9, 2018

Harvard Gazette | Ryan Enos, Associate Professor of Government, talks about his new book The Space Between Us (Cambridge University Press), in which he explores how geography shapes politics and how members of racial, ethnic, and religious groups think about each other.

'The Changing Same': Race in America

March 12, 2015

Radio OpenSource |With guest Orlando Patterson

'Pay for Success' in the UK and the US

August 8, 2016

Oxford Government Review | By Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, in the inaugural issue of the Oxford Government Review (p. 50). Liebman and Elizabeth Linos (Ph.D. '16) spoke at the Challenges of Government Conference 2016, held at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government in May 2016. Conference summaries and videos are also included at the link.

'It is a terrible mistake' to vote on health care bill without a CBO score, the former director says

May 4, 2017

Marketplace | Interview with Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy. Elmendorf served as director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2009 to 2015.