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We need a national conversation about our health care priorities

December 23, 2019

Boston Globe | By Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra. Amitabh Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Katherine Baicker is Dean of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.



We Have the Tools to Reverse the Rise in Inequality

November 20, 2019

PIIE | By Olivier Blanchard and Dani Rodrik. What the authors learned from the Combating Inequality conference, held Oct 17-18 at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Olivier Blanchard is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School.

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We asked six political scientists who is more electable: Trump or Cruz?

February 1, 2016

Vox |Features Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology.



We Are Donald Trump

December 6, 2016

The Nation | By Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. "We bear responsibility for the whole cloth, for all the threads that bind us, one to another," Muhammad writes.



Watch: Populism and the Future of American Politics

November 10, 2016

American Academy of Arts & Sciences | Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Lawrence D. Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, and Charles Stewart III of MIT.



Was Moynihan Right? What happens to the children of unmarried mothers

December 10, 2014

Education Next | by Sarah McLanahan and Christopher Jencks



Want to Feel Less Time-Stressed? Here’s one surprisingly effective solution: Give some time away.

December 11, 2016

Wall Street Journal | By Cassie Mogilner Holmes (UCLA) and Michael I. Norton (HBS). "Our results show that spending time on others increases feelings of time affluence by increasing self-efficacy, or that (rare) feeling of being able to accomplish all that we set out to do."

Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and a member of Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group.



Waiting in Line for the Illusion of Security

May 27, 2016

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan (Robert G. Waggoner Professor of Economics) and Richard H. Thaler (University of Chicago).



Wage inequality: The spatial dimension

July 18, 2016

Vox EU | By Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James Davis, Richard B. Freeman (Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard). Shifting the focus to where you work to understand the rise in inequality in recent decades.
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Voting rights, unsettled

October 25, 2016

Harvard Gazette  | Interview with Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School."Let me also make a distinction between disenfranchisement and voter suppression. ... What’s going on now is mostly a matter of suppression — and for a lot of people, it’s making it close to impossible to vote," said Harvard Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar.

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