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How not to talk about taxes: New York Times promotes misleading language of "loopholes"

November 23, 2015

The Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now a Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings).

The Brain Scoop

November 23, 2015

Our NSF funded project on the Evolution of the Mammalian Backbone is highlighted in this weeks The Brain Scoop!
As part of our project, we teamed up with Emily Graslie - Curiosity Correspondent at The Field Museum and founder of the YouTube channel The Brain Scoop - to produce and present a series of...

Employer Political Coercion: A Growing Threat

November 23, 2015

The American Prospect | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy. Appears in fall 2015 print edition.

Accommodations near Harvard

November 21, 2015

Here is a list of accommodations near Harvard. The list will be updated as we find more places to add.

Why White House Economists Worry About Land-Use Regulations

November 20, 2015

Wall Street Journal | Delves into papers by Raven Molloy (Ph.D. '05, now Federal Reserve Board of Governors) and by Peter Ganong (a Harvard Ph.D. candidate in Economics) and Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS faculty), which CEA Chair Jason Furman highlighted in a recent address on the links between land-use regulations, wages, inequality, and intergenerational mobility.

How has the U.S. treated immigrants and refugees in the past?

November 20, 2015

CNN [video]| Van C. Tran (Ph.D. '11, now Columbia Univ). Interview begins at 1:55 mark.

Barriers to Shared Growth: The Case of Land Use Regulation and Economic Rents

November 20, 2015

Council of Economic Advisers | Remarks by CEA Jason Furman draw on research by Edward Glaeser, Raven Saks Molloy (Ph.D. '05, now Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Daniel Shoag (Ph.D. '11, now HKS), and Albert Saiz (Ph.D. '02, now MIT).

Suffrage in America

November 20, 2015

James Madison's Montpelier | Alex Keyssar interviewed in a series of videos for the "Suffrage in America" online course by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. Read more about the course ▶

What Public Housing Officials Can Teach Us about Overcoming Racial Discrimination

November 20, 2015

Scholars Strategy Network | By Katherine Levine Einstein (Ph.D. '12). This brief summarizes research forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science. Read the research here ▶

Honorary Director Ezra Vogel's interviews on Deng Xiaoping, published from Kodansha Gendai Shinsho (in Japanese).

November 20, 2015

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