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Stefanie Stantcheva

Mobility: Real and Perceived

December 31, 2019

City Journal | By Alberto Alesina and Stefanie Stantcheva. Americans continue to regard their economic prospects more optimistically than Europeans, who fear that the poor are stuck in poverty. Alesina is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. Stantcheva is a Professor of Economics.

Leah Gose

‘The Resistance’ built grass-roots groups across the U.S. Will the Democratic Party put that energy to work in 2020?

December 31, 2019

The Washington Post | By Leah E. Gose, PhD student in Sociology and Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Scholar in Poverty and Justice. Leah is a contributor to the forthcoming volume, Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance, Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Artist conception of Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size exoplanet found in a star's "habitable zone."

The 2010s: Decade of the exoplanet

December 31, 2019

The last ten years will arguably be seen as the "decade of the exoplanet." That might seem like an obvious thing to say, given that the discovery of the first exoplanet was honored with a Nobel Prize this year. But that discovery happened back in 1995—so what made the 2010s so pivotal?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/the-2010s-decade-of-the-exoplanet/

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Michael Luca

2019 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2019

American Economics Association | Among the top 10 research highlights of 2019, "Tech: Economists Wanted." An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector. Michael Luca is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Blythe George Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation at Harvard Kennedy School

Blythe George Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation at Harvard Kennedy School

December 25, 2019

In December, Department of Sociology and Social Policy doctoral candidate, Blythe George (Yurok), became the first Native American to have her dissertation pass at the Harvard Kennedy School. The title of her dissertation was, Tribal Lands, Tribal Men and Tribal Responsibilities: World Renewal Fathers with Criminal Records and Their Perceptions of Work and Fatherhood On and Off-Reservation.

While many other Native American students have been awarded a PhD from Harvard, Blythe will be the first to do so from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government...

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IRB Office Closed - Dec. 24th through Jan. 1st

December 24, 2019
The IRB Office will be closed during the Harvard Winter Recess - December 24th at noon through January 1st.  The IRB Office will re-open on Thursday, January 2nd.  No IRB submissions will be reviewed during this time. Thank you for your understanding and Happy Holidays!