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Seminar: Spring 2015

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Little Magazine, Big Ideas: The American Prospect at 25

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The American Prospect | Links to some of its most influential articles in the past 25 years, including those by William Julius Wilson, Jane Mansbridge, Christopher Jencks, David Ellwood, Mary Jo Bane, Robert Putnam, and Theda Skocpol (in order of...

Sarah Glatte awarded MPSA prize for best paper on women and politics

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Midwest Political Science Association | Sarah Glatte, Malcolm Wiener Center Visiting Ph.D. fellow from Oxford University (spring 2014).

Who Wins and Who Loses? Debunking 7 Persistent Tax Reform Myths

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Center for American Progress | Cites research presented by Stefanie Stantcheva in the Inequality Seminar last spring, "Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities," co-athored with Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and...

Raj Chetty: The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children's Long-Term Outcomes

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Raj Chetty, Bloomberg Professor of Economics, Harvard University. This talk will present findings from two new papers that investigate the long-term effects of neighborhoods on children's earnings and other outcomes in adulthood using both quasi...

Robert Putnam: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

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Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University. Robert Putnam's talk will draw from his forthcoming book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, scheduled for release by Simon and Schuster on or around March 10...

Canceled - Patrick Sharkey

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Patrick Sharkey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Canceled due to COVID-19. About the speaker Patrick Sharkey is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. He received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard and...

Matthew Desmond: Unaffordable America: Housing, Profit, and Policy

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Matthew Desmond, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, Harvard University. Owing to rising housing costs, stagnant or falling incomes among the poor, and a shortfall of federal housing assistance, most poor renting families today devote...

Danielle Allen: Political Equality as a Human Good

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Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University. About the speaker Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She is a political...

Jeffrey Liebman: Pay for Success Contracting Using Social Impact Bonds

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Jeffrey B. Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. In order to better understand how governments can foster social innovation and improve the results they obtain with their social spending, we, through the Harvard...

Felix Warneken: The Origins of Cooperation and Fairness: Evidence from Children and Chimpanzees

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Felix Warneken, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, and Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Schedule change: Please note that this speaker is a new addition to...