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Kennedy School Funds $20,000 Grants to Investigate Early Impacts of Trump Administration
Six Harvard Kennedy School projects received grants of up to $20,000 to research the effects of the second Trump administration on public opinion and democratic institutions. HKS professor Elizabeth Linos will track the misconceptions about public servants and whether they have impacted support or interest in public service.
Why Black Women Are Carving New Career Pathways As Entrepreneurs
Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. and represent roughly 2.7 million businesses nationwide. In fact, there has been an estimated 70% increase in the number of businesses owned by Afro-Descendant women in the U.S. during the last four years.
Real-world experiments in messaging show that getting low-income people the help they need is more effective when stigma is reduced
There are pervasive stereotypes that Americans who are low income and access government assistance are lazy, lack a work ethic and are even morally inferior. This stigma has been shown to have many negative consequences.
Black women in White workplaces are more likely to have worse career outcomes
New landmark research, by Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Linos and co-authors, indicates that Black women may have worse career outcomes when their teams have a greater share of white colleagues. The research out of the Harvard Kennedy School finds that Black women on white teams are more likely to be labeled as “low performers.”
Elizabeth Linos: Black women in teams with a greater number of White peers may have worse job outcomes
A new study by Associate Professor Elizabeth Linos and her colleagues Dr. Sanaz Mobasseri of Boston University and Dr. Nina Roussille of MIT suggests that Black women in teams with a greater number of White peers may have worse job outcomes.
Three lessons from J-PAL North America’s ten year convening
2023 marks the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab’s (J-PAL) twentieth year of evidence-based policymaking and J-PAL North America’s tenth. To honor these milestones, J-PAL North America convened a two-day event in September—one of several regional celebrations to honor J-PAL’s anniversaries worldwide.