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04/07/2015
News roundup
Highlights from Inequality & Social Policy
We've enjoyed a busy past two weeks as Harvard welcomed newly-admitted prospective Ph.D. students to campus, many of whom we met at last week's gathering for faculty and Ph.D. students across the university who make up the Inequality & Social Policy community. It was striking to see so many— economists, political scientists, sociologists, and more—who are doing exciting and important work in this area.
Browse the headlines below to catch up on the latest insights and analysis, Inequality in the news, and noteworthy developments from the Malcolm Wiener Center's Inequality & Social Policy program.
More on our website:
inequality.hks.harvard.edu
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Wages and Corporate Behavior in the United States [Event video]
April 6, 2015
Peterson Institute for International Economics | Event featuring Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)
Raising Lower-Level Wages: When and Why it Makes Sense
April 6, 2015
Peterson Institute for International Economics | Background briefing for PIIE event, with briefs by Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)
Teachers Must Look in the Mirror
April 6, 2015
New York Daily News | By Thomas Kane
Jobs Report Adds to Evidence of a Slowing Economy
April 3, 2015
New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)
Robert Putnam talks with EJ Dionne and Richard Reeves about 'Our Kids' [Audio]
April 3, 2015
Brookings Podcast | Robert Putnam
Why a Claim about Irrelevance of Parenting Time Doesn't Add Up
April 2, 2015
New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01)
ObamaCare's remarkable progress
April 2, 2015
The Hill | By Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol
Uncertainty and the Geography of the Great Recession
April 2, 2015
Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Research Working Paper Series | By Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. 11)
Robert Putnam Discusses his Latest Book 'Our Kids' with Walter Isaacson [Video]
March 31, 2015
The Aspen Institute | Robert Putnam
The Poor Door Debate
March 31, 2015
NYU Furman Center | Edward Glaeser
Will Welfare Reform Increase Upward Mobility?
March 26, 2015
Forbes | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)
In Defense of Snow Days: Absences When School is in Session Are Much Larger Problem
March 26, 2015
Education Next | By Joshua Goodman
The Great Recession and Its Effects: On the Private Safety Net, Parenting, and Public Assistance
February 15, 2015
Russell Sage Foundation Briefs By Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07)
Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Skilled Workers Are Plentiful?
January 30, 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | By Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01), Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11), and Joshua Ballance
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Land-shackled economies
April 4, 2015
The Economist | Edward Glaeser, Matthew Resseger (Ph.D. '14), Raven Saks Molloy (Ph.D. '06)
For-Profit Colleges: Here to Stay
April 3, 2015
The Atlantic |David Deming (Faculty, Ph.D. '10), Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz
Is the Former Capital of the Confederacy Ready to Confront Its Poverty—and Its Past?
March 30, 2015
The Nation |Thad Williamson (PhD '04)
Crunching the numbers on voting rights in America
March 27, 2015
Harvard Magazine | Maya Sen, Bernard Fraga (Ph.D. '13)
Alicia Sasser Modestino named to Massachusetts Governor's task force to find solutions for long-term unemployed
March 26, 2015
Mass Live | Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01) (homepage)
How snow days don't hurt student progress, but absences do, in graphs
March 26, 2015
Washington Post | Joshua Goodman
Do snow days hurt student progress? A Harvard professor says no.
March 25, 2015
Washington Post | Joshua S. Goodman
How Poor are the Poor?
March 25, 2015
New York Times | Christopher Jencks
Grading Teachers by the Test
March 24, 2015
New York Times | Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D. '04)
Tax Cuts, Home Prices, and Bankruptcy: Interesting papers this week from NBER
March 23, 2015
FiveThirtyEight | Edward Glaeser, Will Dobbie (Ph.D. '13), Crystal S. Yang (Ph.D. '13)
No Child Left Behind Law Faces Its Own Reckoning
March 20, 2015
New York Times | Martin West (Faculty, Ph.D. '06)
More Proof that Graduating in the Recession Was Awful
March 19, 2015
Bloomberg | Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01), Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11)
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