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Evidence that Minorities Perform Worse Under Biased Managers

January 13, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Amanda Pallais, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy and Social Studies. Findings from her research with Dylan Glover (Sciences Po) and William Pariente (Université Catholique de Louvain), forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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Does more rigorous middle school math coursework change students’ college readiness?

April 27, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Shaun M. Dougherty, Joshua S. Goodman, Darryl V. Hill, Erica Litke, and Lindsay C. Page. Joshua Goodman is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.



The Ambition-Marriage Trade-Off Too Many Single Women Face

May 8, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais. Harvard economist Amanda Pallais and co-authors discuss the findings of their latest research on marriage market incentives and labor market investments, forthcoming in the American Economic Review: "Many schooling and initial career decisions, such as whether to take advanced math in high school, major in engineering, or become an entrepreneur, occur early in life, when most women are single. These decisions can have labor market consequences with long-lasting effects," they write. 
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Research: The Rise of Superstar Firms Has Been Better for Investors than for Employees

May 11, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By John Van Reenen (MIT) and Christina Patterson (MIT). Discussion of their new working paper, co-authored with David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich), and Lawrence Katz (Harvard), "The Fall of Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms."
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Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn't Declined in 25 Years

October 11, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Arnfinn H. Midtboen, and Ole Hexel. Devah Pager, Director of the Inequality & Social Policy program, is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. Read the authors' orignal study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Research: Hiring Chief Risk Officers Led Banks to Take on Even More Risk

July 13, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Kim Pernell (University of Toronto), Jiwook Jung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Frank Dobbin (Professor of Sociology, Harvard University). The authors discuss their findings, recently published in the American Sociological Review.
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Leveling the Playing Field: Policy Options to Improve Postsecondary Education and Career Outcomes

April 26, 2017

The Hamilton Project | A policy forum held at the Brookings Institution. The forum began with introductory remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, followed by three roundtable discussions. Papers by David J. Deming (PhD '10) and by Tara E. Watson (PhD '03) and Adam Looney (PhD'04) were the focus of two of the roundtables. View event video and dowload papers, full transcript, and presentation slides from the event webpage.

David Deming is Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Tara Watson is Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College and served in the U.S. Treasury Department from 2015-2016 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis. Adam Looney is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and served in the U.S. Treasury Department from 2013-2017 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis.



Proposals for improving the U.S. Pretrial System

March 15, 2019

The Hamilton Project | By Will Dobbie (PhD 2013) and Crystal S. Yang (PhD 2013). Will Dobbie is now Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Crystal S. Yang is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.



2019 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2019

American Economics Association | Among the top 10 research highlights of 2019, "Tech: Economists Wanted." An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector. Michael Luca is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.



Is Lead Exposure a Form of Housing Inequality?

January 2, 2020

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies | By Alix Winter (PhD 2019) and Robert J. Sampson. Alix Winter received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard in 2019 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) at Columbia University. Robert Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

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