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Government spending that pays for itself

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Vox | New research by Nathaniel Hendren and Benjamin Spring-Keyser finds that investing in kids can have huge benefits. Hendren is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights. Sprung-Keyser is a PhD candidate in Economics at...

When the Safety Net Pays for Itself

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Wall Street Journal | A new study by Harvard economists Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser examines 133 policy changes over the past half century and finds that programs for low-income children return taxpayer dollars over time. Hendren is Professor...

Southerners, Facing Big Odds, Believe in a Path Out of Poverty

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The New York Times | Coverage of research by economics professor Stefanie Stantcheva (joint with Alberto Alesina and Eduardo Teso), "Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistirbution," first presented in the Inequality Seminar in spring 2017 and...

Engineers Spring Ahead, but Don't Underestimate the Poets

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The New York Times | By David Deming, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Drawing on research with Stone PhD Scholar Kadeem Noray, a PhD candidate in Public Policy, Deming notes that STEM majors earn more...

Seminar: Spring 2020

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Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Eric Patashnik

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Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age—with an Update on Backlash Politics During the Biden and Early Trump 2.0 Administrations Eric Patashnik, Brown University Abstract: The most successful policies not only solve problems...

Arlie R. Hochschild: Strangers in Our Own Land: A Story of Right and Left

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Arlie Russell Hochschild, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. With discussion by Michèle Lamont, P rofessor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies...

5 Big Ideas in Inequality - II

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Highlights IDEA 1 A call to action New metrics for a new economic agenda Heather Boushey President and CEO and Co-Founder Washington Center for Equitable Growth "Adding distribution to our national conversation about our core economic metric could...

Michèle Lamont: New Engines of Hope after the American Dream - Finding Recognition in the New Gilded Age

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Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University View video » In the context of COVID, growing inequality, and political polarization, I am...

Amanda Y. Agan: The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism

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Amanda Y. Agan, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rutgers University. Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 2019-2020. For recently released prisoners, the minimum wage and the availability of state Earned...

Hilary Hoynes: Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program

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Hilary Hoynes, P rofessor of Public Policy and Economics and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities, University of California, Berkeley. We use novel large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American...