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What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us

September 12, 2015

The New York Times | By Anthony Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology.



What Public Housing Officials Can Teach Us about Overcoming Racial Discrimination

November 20, 2015

Scholars Strategy Network | By Katherine Levine Einstein (Ph.D. '12). This brief summarizes research forthcoming in the  American Journal of Political Science. Read the research here ▶



What Makes People Poor?

September 2, 2014

The New York Times | William Julius Wilson, Matthew Desmond



What makes field organizers effective? Being like the people they want to persuade

May 21, 2015

Washington Post | Eitan Hersh (Yale) discusses study co-authored with Ryan Enos (Harvard).



What Makes a School Successful?

May 2, 2015

Newsweek | Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie, Ph.D. '13).



What Lower Labor Force Participation Rates Tell Us About Work Opportunities and Incentives

July 15, 2015

Economics 21 | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)



What Lower Labor Force Participation Rates Tell Us about Work Opportunities and Incentives

July 15, 2015

U.S. Congress—Testimony | Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08) and Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09) testify before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.



What is the Biggest Misconception About Racism?

October 28, 2015

The Atlantic [video, 3 minutes] | Bruce Western is among those interviewed in this video segment filmed earlier this year at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Also featured: Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, student activist Clifton Kinnie of Howard University, Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, and Tracey Meares of Yale Law School.



What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?

April 9, 2015

Boston Globe Magazine | Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology



What happened when researchers posted fake iPhone adds online from people in poor neighborhoods

April 7, 2015

Washington Post | Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07)

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