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Racial diversity of scientists could increase enrollment of Black clinical trial participants
Research from Harvard Kennedy School’s Marcella Alsan shows Black survey respondents’ interest in clinical trials increased ...
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Crypto is merging with mainstream finance. Regulators aren’t ready.
Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow Timothy Massad and Harvard Law School Professor Howell Jackson say new digital assets ...
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Anderson Cooper talks about the changing media landscape, TikTok, and how his podcast has helped him grieve
The Goldsmith Awards were founded in 1991 by the Greenfield family, who have sponsored the program ever since. As part of the ...
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“This is a time to be brave”: Former governor Deval Patrick offers leadership lessons for a time of uncertainty
Former Massachusetts governor and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, Deval Patrick, ...
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Wanted: educators with experience preparing workers for good jobs
Community colleges embody best practices in workforce development and are showing how to create good jobs for workers who ...
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A Brief History of Default - Edwin Truman
Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...
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Pablo Uribe MPA 2022: Tackling gun violence at home and abroad
An earlier version of this story was originally published by the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. PABLO URIBE MPA 2022 thought he was finished with fighting crime. That had been his ...
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The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View - Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
August 2021, Paper: "With “2020 hindsight,” the 2000s housing cycle is not a boom-bust but rather a boom- bust-rebound at both the national level and across cities. We argue this pattern reflects a ...
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Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses - Arie Arnon
2022, Book: "This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It ...
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The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life - Jon Jachimowicz
2022, Paper: "Although income is an important predictor of life satisfaction, the precise forces that drive this relationship remain unclear. We propose that financial resources afford individuals a ...
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Niall Ferguson: Why Civilizations Rise & Fall / Will Decentralized Finance Change the World... Again - Niall Ferguson
August 18, 2021, Video: "Niall Ferguson is a renowned historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and prolific author of more than a dozen best-selling works on economics, culture, and ...
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Fiscal Sustainability in the Aftermath of the Great Pause - Kenneth Rogoff
April 21, 2021, Paper: "Faced with a global natural catastrophe, countries must spend to deal with the immediate crisis, and to reduce longer-term economic scarring. Sustained infrastructure and ...