On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Maggie Gates speaks with Darcel Rockett, a senior journalist for the Chicago Tribune whose…
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness…
2022, Book: "Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is…
Deval Patrick is a professor of practice and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
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January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution,…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
Historically, the quest to reduce poverty has relied on two levers: economic growth (the idea that “a rising tide lifts all boats”) and the…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…