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    What Does Free College Mean?

    What Does Free College Mean?

    January 17, 2017

    Harvard Graduate School of Education | A Q&A with David Deming (Ph.D. '10), a professor at the HGSE and Harvard Kennedy School.

    Among the research highlighted in this interview, a study of the Adams scholarship in Massachusetts, by Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15) and Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Oct 2014); and a new paper by Deming and Christopher Walters of UC Berkeley, "The Impacts of Price and Spending Subsidies on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment."

    What do trends in economic inequality imply for innovation and entrepreneurship? A framework for future research and policy

    What do trends in economic inequality imply for innovation and entrepreneurship? A framework for future research and policy

    February 16, 2016

    Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08), now Senior Director for Policy and Academic Programs at Equitable Growth. Also cites work by Inequality doctoral fellow Alex Bell (Ph.D. candidate in Economics) et. al., which finds that children of parents in the top 1% of the income distribution are ten times more likely to become inventors than those in the bottom 50%.

    What Do Parents Think of Their Children’s Schools?

    What Do Parents Think of Their Children’s Schools?

    December 13, 2016

    Education Next |  By Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide. 

    Samuel Barrows (Ph.D. '14) isi a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at the Harvard Kennedy School. Paul E. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of PEPG. Martin R. West (Ph.D '06), editor-in-chief of Education Next, is associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and deputy director of PEPG.

    What do financial markets think of the 2016 election?

    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.

    What Could We Expect on Ed From a Justice Gorsuch?

    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 Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts

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

    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.

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