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A New Look at Tracking in Boston Schools

August 3, 2015

BNN TV | Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15) interviewed about her research on the effects of advanced-work classes in the Boston Public Schools.

A Middle-Class Stronghold's Uncertain Future

July 2, 2016

The Atlantic | Quotes Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08), Senior Director for Policy and Academic Programs, Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

A letter to the class of 2023

March 29, 2019

New York Daily News | By Natasha Warikoo PhD 2005. Warikoo is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard and the author of The Diversity Bargain.

A lapse in concentration

September 29, 2016

The Economist | A dearth of competition among firms helps explain wage inequality and a host of other ills, writes The Economist, in its review of various lines of research. Cites work by Harvard's Richard Freeman (joint with Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, and James Davis) and by Raven Malloy (Ph.D. '11) (joint with Christopher Smith and Abigail Wozniak). Malloy is now section chief with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

A Harvard study identified the precise reason protests are an effective way to cause political change

February 3, 2017

Quartz | Political protests in the first days of the Trump administration generate new interest in a study by Daniel Shoag (Ph.D.'11), Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and colleagues Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University), Stan Veuger (American Enterprise Institute), and David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich). The study, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in November 2013, seeks to determine whether protests actually cause political change, or whether they are "merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences."
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Also cited: Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson's book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2012). Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Governmant and Sociology at Harvard. Vanessa S. Williamson (Ph.D. '15) is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

A Family-Friendly Policy that's Friendliest to Male Professors

June 24, 2016

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), University of Michigan. "Economics remains a male-dominated field, and the research shows that policies fueled by the best intentions of universities have made an imbalance worse," writes Wolfers. "Three female economists have shown that the tools of economics...suggest that a more nuanced policy would lead to better outcomes. It leaves me wondering how many other policy mistakes we could avoid, if only we had more female economists."