In four distinct American cities, graduate students at Harvard Kennedy School found that criminal legal system agencies rarely meet their own stated benchmarks of success, and at high fiscal and social cost to taxpayers.
You can read more about their research at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/social-policy/what-cost-crime-and-punishment
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,public policy,government,public service,harvard kennedy school,changing the world,kennedy,kennedy school of government,SU2kO_TkKis,UCI-ouQQAQteW8IQd7dZVVzw, Business,Society, channel_UCI-ouQQAQteW8IQd7dZVVzw, video_SU2kO_TkKis,Why are people of color less likely to support, mentorship and promotions in the workplace? HKS Professor Elizabeth Linos discusses recent research showing that black women in particular are often excluded from the network effects that can help young professionals grow within the workplace.
Read more about the research at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/education-training-labor/when-black-women-work-whiter-teams-they-may
,public policy,government,public service,harvard kennedy school,changing the world,kennedy,kennedy school of government,StdXFHXSZBg,UCI-ouQQAQteW8IQd7dZVVzw, Politics,Society, channel_UCI-ouQQAQteW8IQd7dZVVzw, video_StdXFHXSZBg,Pete Buttigieg '04, the United States Secretary of Transportation, recently spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Harvard Institute of Politics about the challenge of working with people you strongly disagree with.
Watch the full event at https://www.youtube.com/live/qiV7xv24KDI?si=bBn8uKvvqDybhyUx
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,With diversity, equity, and belonging efforts at universities and other institutions across the country under scrutiny, it's important to understand what is at stake. "The Case for Equity," a new video series from Harvard Kennedy School and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, will explore equity in a variety of contexts, including health care, economics, education and more. HKS faculty experts will draw on the latest research to help you understand what kinds of policies will succeed or fail in making a more equitable society.
In this episode, Mark Shepard, Associate Professor of Public Policy, explains what equity is, and why it's relevant to public policy.
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,Read more about this research: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/collegeadmissions/
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families — increase the socioeconomic diversity of America’s leaders by changing their admissions policies?
In this video, HKS Professor David Deming discusses his research with Professors Raj Chetty of Harvard and John N. Friedman of Brown University, which explores the ways that admissions policies have a cascading effect on the diversity, or lack thereof, at the top of the income scale.
This research was conducted as part of Opportunity Insights, a project based at Harvard University, whose mission is to identify barriers to economic opportunity and develop scalable solutions that will empower people throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes.
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,How to galvanize leaders and policymakers to action on the world's most pressing problems? It's not with a list of numbers. Instead, it depends on telling compelling stories about real people.
On this episode of Behind the Book, we'll take a look at Lauren Brodsky's new book, "Because Data Can't Speak for Itself: A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories," co-authored with David Chrisinger.
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,In response to the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union and United States have implemented sanctions against Russia. But the nuts and bolts of the sanctions matter, and in this video HKS Professor Ricardo Hausmann discusses how the EU and US can make sanctions more punitive for Russia and less onerous for the coalition.
You can read more about Professor Hausmann's research on sanctions at ken.sc/hausmann-sanctions.
Read more HKS faculty perspectives on a year of war in Ukraine at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/international-relations-security/lessons-year-war-ukraine.
For more information about Harvard Kennedy School's Growth Lab visit growthlab.cid.harvard.edu.
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,HKS experts will share their perspectives on China, Russia, Ukraine, nuclear security, and other timely topics.
Speakers include:
Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government
Matthew Bunn, James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy
Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
Natalie Colbert MPP 2008, moderator, Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,In four distinct American cities, graduate students at Harvard Kennedy School found that criminal legal system agencies rarely meet their own stated benchmarks of success, and at high fiscal and social cost to taxpayers.
You can read more about their research at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/social-policy/what-cost-crime-and-punishment
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
,1,Workers without college degrees are being left behind. Since the 1980s, the gap between those at the top of the income spectrum and everyone else has been widening, due to a number of phenomena, including increased competition from China, the decline of the coal industry, and automation. These seismic changes have laid bare the shortcomings of the American welfare state, which can help workers absorb short term job loss but leaves them in a precarious state for longer term unemployment.
Solving this problem will require new ways of thinking and a better understanding of how global economic forces affect local economies. That has been the focus of Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Professor Hanson says that the economic consensus in the 1980s and 1990s, which assumed that free trade would lead to massive growth for everyone, was wildly optimistic. To address regional economic divides, Professor Hanson says policymakers will have to consider approaches that would have once been thought too economically intrusive.
In collaboration with HKS Professor Dani Rodrik, Professor Hanson has recently launched Reimagining the Economy, a project focused on solving these problems. You can read more about it at hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener/programs/economy.
Some of Professor Hanson's work on "The China Shock" and labor markets can be read here:
"The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade"
with David H. Autor and David Dorn
https://www.nber.org/papers/w21906
"On the Persistance of the China Shock"
with David H Autor and David Dorn
https://www.nber.org/papers/w29401
This video mentions cites research by Enrico Moretti and Patrick M. Kline, which can be viewed at nber.org/papers/w19293.
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About Harvard Kennedy School:
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff.
