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Insight & analysis
The Effects of Neighborhoods on Children's Long-term Outcomes
The big story generating press this week was the public release of two new papers that Professor Raj Chetty first presented in the Malcolm Wiener Seminar, Jan 26, 2015.
You will find the papers below and media coverage of their results immediately following:
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The Big Picture of Baltimore, Ferguson, and North Charleston
May 8, 2015
In the Fray | By Victor Tan Chen (Ph.D. '12)
Does America Have Less Economic Mobility? (Part 3)
May 7, 2015
Economics 21 | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)
Chasing the Dream: Concentrated Poverty
May 7, 2015
WNET: MetroFocus | Interview with Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07)
Study: Four-year Colleges Better Bet for Graduation Chances
May 7, 2015
WABE (NPR Atlanta): A Closer Look | Interview with Joshua S. Goodman
40 years later- The relevance of Okun’s "Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff"
May 4, 2015
Brookings Institution | Moderated discussion featuring N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard), Heather Boushey (Washington Center for Equitable Growth), Melissa S. Kearney (Hamilton Project), and Justin Wolfers (Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow, Ph.D. '01)
The Veiled Economics of Employee Cost-sharing
May 4, 2015
JAMA Internal Medicine | By Katherine Baicker (HSPH) and Amitabh Chandra
Policy Strategies to Reduce Youth Recreational Marijuana Use
May 4, 2015
Pediatrics | By Brendan Saloner (Ph.D. '12), Emma E. McGinty, and Colleen L. Barry. The direct link to the article requires institutional subscription, but an excellent summary is available at JHU Hub.
When Bosses Recruit Employees into Politics: Evidence from a New National Survey
April 30, 2015
Scholars Strategy Network | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy
Implementing a Turnaround Strategy at DOL: An interview with Seth Harris, former Deputy Secretary of Labor
April 27, 2015
Gov Innovator Podcast | Hosted by Andy Feldman (Ph.D. '07).
Does Brain-Based Lie Detection Belong in American Courtrooms?
April 14, 2015
Harvard Medical School | Panel discussion featuring Francis X. Shen (Ph.D. '08)
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Black America: The fire and the fuel
May 9, 2015
The Economist | Orlando Patterson
State Takeover Gives Lawrence, Mass. School District a Fresh Start
May 5, 2015
Education Week | Beth Schueler (Ed.D. candidate), Joshua S. Goodman, David Deming
Researcher: Millions of Americans experiencing intimidating political contact at work
May 5, 2015
Vox | Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy
National Academy of Sciences recognizes seven for their achievements
May 5, 2015
Harvard Gazette | Bruce Western
What Carly Fiorina gets wrong about why women make less in the workplace
May 5, 2015
Washington Post | Claudia Goldin
An 'income-achievement' gap within kids' brain structures
May 4, 2015
Boston Globe | Martin R. West, faculty and Ph.D. '06. The study discussed in the article has been made publicly available: “Neuroanatomical Correlates of the Income-Achievement Gap,” Psychological Science (April 20, 2015).
Why Sociologist William Julius Wilson Could Have Predicted Baltimore 25 Years Ago
May 4, 2015
Atlanta Black Star | William Julius Wilson
Race, Class, and Neglect
May 4, 2015
New York Times | William Julius Wilson
Baltimore riots put Obama strategy for American cities under closer scrutiny
May 4, 2015
Washington Post | Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07)
With Sickest Patients, Cost Sharing Comes at a Price
May 4, 2015
New York Times | Amitabh Chandra
Unhappy Days for America
May 2, 2015
New York Review of Books | Nicholas Lemann reviews Robert Putnam's Our Kids.
Mass Incarceration:The Silence of the Judges
May 2, 2015
New York Review of Books | Jed S. Rackoff essay references Bruce Western research
The New Movers and Shakers: Mexico and its NGOs
May 2, 2015
The Economist | Viridiana Rios (Ph.D. '12)
What Makes a School Successful?
May 2, 2015
Newsweek | Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie (Ph.D. '13).
How Not to Drown in Numbers
May 2, 2015
New York Times | Op-ed argues we need "small data" to make sense of "big data", noting Thomas Kane's work with school districts.
Justice, pursued
May 1, 2015
Harvard Gazette | Phillip Atiba Goff, Visiting Scholar, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Life expectancy in Gilpin Court 20 years shorter than Westover Hills
May 1, 2015
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Thad Williamson (Ph.D. '04).
China's new, better 'leap forward'
April 29, 2015
Washington Post | Richard Freeman and Wei Huang, Ph.D. candidate in Economics.
Past Immigrants Had It Easier than Today's Newcomers
April 27, 2015
Voice of America | Leah Platt Boustan, Ph.D. '06.
'I don't go to lawyers': Professor Sara Sternberg Greene examines inaction gap
April 16, 2015
Duke Law Magazine | Profile of Sara Sternberg Greene (Ph.D. '14); Christopher Winship quoted. The study discussed in this article, "Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice," is available via SSRN.
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