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Washington Center for Equitable Growth Announces Inaugural Class of Grantees

July 24, 2014

Awardees | Ryan Sakoda (Ph.D. candidate in Economics), Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy), and Will R. Dobbie (Ph.D. '13)... Read more about Washington Center for Equitable Growth Announces Inaugural Class of Grantees



We were the victims of fake news

February 8, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Norm Eisen and Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15),  both fellows in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. "This week, we discovered that our real work is being used to promote 'fake news'. As Yahoo News has reported, an obscure website, the “Center for Global Strategic Monitoring,” has been putting policy experts’ names on articles they did not write..."



Wealth and Finance in Post Civil-Rights America

July 18, 2015

Harlem Book Fair (C-SPAN2 Book TV) | Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07) of  Yale University joined a panel with Dalton Conley (NYU), William Tabb (Professor Emeritus, Queens College and CUNY), and Damon Phillips (Columbia Business School)



Wealth Inequality

April 23, 2015

2SER Sydney Educational Radio | Conversation with Andrew Leigh, Assistant Shadow Treasurer member for Fraser (Ph.D. '04)



Weather, sharks, and the world economy: the luck of the political cycle

September 30, 2015

Inside Story | By Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04). A former Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and a Member of Parliament for the district of Fraser. This is an edited extract from his new book The Luck of Politics, published earlier this month by Black Inc.



Welfare Myths and the Luck of Life

May 28, 2015

Inside Story (Australia) | By Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04)



What can (or should) activists learn from the tea party?

May 11, 2017

Washington Post | By Vanessa Williamson and Theda Skocpol. Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15) is a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017). Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and director of the Scholars Strategy Network.



What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts

October 16, 2015

The New York Times | Cites study by Adam Looney (Ph.D. '04, now U.S. Treasury Dept) and Kevin B. Moore (Federal Reserve), which found the long-term reduction in capital gains rate to be the primary reason for the "muted effectiveness" of the income tax system in reducing wealth inequality. View the original study.



What Could We Expect on Ed From a Justice Gorsuch?

March 1, 2017

EdNext Podcast | Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has been poring over Neil Gorsuch’s opinions as a federal judge to learn how he might approach the steady stream of education cases that inevitably make their way before the Supreme Court. He discusses his conclusions in this week's episode with Marty West, Associate Professor of Education  and executive edtor of Education Next.



What do financial markets think of the 2016 election?

October 21, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. 01), Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Eric Zitewitz, Professor of Economics at Darthmouth College.

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