John Friedman told Inside Higher Ed that traditional campuses give students classroom tools and ambitious peers that an industry-taught academy may struggle to replicate at scale.
Social and Economic Policy
Research on the policies and systems that shape economic opportunity, social well-being and public life.
Social and Economic Policy
Research on the policies and systems that shape economic opportunity, social well-being and public life.
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Recent News & Research
The tech elite is funding an alternative to college (comments by John Friedman)
John Friedman told The Wall Street Journal that while access to top industry leaders is a benefit of alternative programs, traditional colleges offer proven track records, experienced faculty and exposure to students with diverging career paths.
In Webull, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan said the Federal Reserve must eventually raise rates, warning that delay will only make inflation more stubborn and harder to fix.
California prison towns grasp for new jobs after closures: ‘No one is coming to save us’ (comments by John Eason)
John Eason tells the Los Angeles Times that a prison town's economic fortune hinges more on when the facility was built than where, with early gains in income and home values fading within about a decade.
Rhode Island’s ‘Taylor Swift tax’ on vacation homes aims to boost affordable housing (comments by John Friedman)
In the Christian Science Monitor, John Friedman said the new tax is unlikely to solve the state's housing crisis and that low-income housing tax credits "do not substantially increase the supply of low-income housing."
After the closures (John Friedman's research cited)
This opinion piece includes a mention of research by John Friedman showing that children from families in the top 1% of the income distribution are more than twice as likely to attend an Ivy Plus institution.
How to really run a city (interview with Marc Dunkelman)
Marc Dunkelman discussed on the How to Really Run a City podcast why government struggles to deliver results and how rebalancing authority could improve governance.
Americans without Americanness: The Racial Boundaries of U.S. National Membership
Keitaro Okura explores how Americans perceive who belongs in the nation and how those beliefs shape racial boundaries in a study published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Breaking Down the Fed's Plans to Tackle Inflation Risks (interview with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan)
In an interview with Bloomberg, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan discussed how markets are interpreting the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady and the risks of supply-driven inflation.
Trump’s Kiss of Death (Climate Solutions Lab research cited)
A recent New York Times opinion piece cites data from the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker, created by a research team at the Climate Solutions Lab.
The startup insiders who stash huge sums in tax-subsidized retirement accounts (John Friedman's research cited)
A recent Wall Street Journal article cited research by John Friedman showing that tax incentives aren't especially effective at encouraging retirement savings.
Why Nothing Works: Robber Barons, Algorithms & Governing AI (interview with Marc Dunkelman)
On the Breaking Math podcast, Marc Dunkelman discussed how America's historical approaches to concentrated corporate power can inform today's debates over artificial intelligence regulation.
