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A Big Financial Boost for Low-Income Families

April 8, 2015

Pacific Standard | Jennifer Sykes (Ph.D. '11)



A Better Government, One Tweak at a Time

September 25, 2015

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)



A 'Lost Generation Of Workers': Youth Unemployment

July 2, 2014

National Public Radio | Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08)



74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

November 3, 2017

The 74 | Harvard's Jal Mehta on why school reforms fail, how they can succeed, and what makes teaching so complex. Jal Mehta (PhD '06) is an asociate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



74 Interview: Harvard Researcher David Deming Takes the Long View on Head Start, Integration

May 10, 2017

The 74 | Professor David Deming (PhD '10) on the lasting benefits of Head Start, school accountability, and integration. Deming is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.



6 charts showing race gaps within the American middle class

October 21, 2016

Brookings Institution | Latest Social Mobility Memo by Richard V. Reeves and Dana Bowen Matthew of the Brookings Institution features findings of new study by Judith-Scott Clayton (Ph.D. '09), Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Jing-Li, also of Columbia University, revealing large black-white disparities in student loan debt, which more than triples after graduation.



40 years later- The relevance of Okun’s "Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff"

May 4, 2015

Brookings Institution | Moderated discussion featuring N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard), Heather Boushey (Washington Center for Equitable Growth), Melissa S. Kearney (Hamilton Project), and Justin Wolfers (Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow, Ph.D. '01)



2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform released

August 1, 2017

Education Next | By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Samuel Barrows. This article appears in print in the Winter 2018 issue of Education Next.



2015-2016 New Scholar Grant Winners

December 21, 2015

Awardee| Deirdre Bloome (Ph.D. '14, now University of Michigan) is one of seven New Scholar grant recipients selected by Stanford's Center on Poverty and Inequality. Bloome will investigate (1) to what extent intragenerational and intergenerational income mobility contribute to lifetime income inequality, (2) how these contributions have changed across recent birth cohorts, and (3) whether these differ across people from low- and high-income backgrounds—with an eye to understanding "how income mobility over the life course relates to income inequality between people."



1.5 Million Missing Black Men

April 20, 2015

New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), David Leonhardt, and Kevin Quealy

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