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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A recent Wall Street Journal article cited research by John Friedman showing that tax incentives aren't especially effective at encouraging retirement savings.

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.

A recent New York Times opinion article cited research by John N. Friedman on the relationship between standardized test scores and academic performance at selective colleges.

In an NPR It’s Been a Minute interview, Marc Dunkelman said that knowing one’s neighbors can strengthen community safety and civic trust by building everyday relationships that help people look out for one another.

This article mentions the launch of the Watson School's Workforce Training Policy Lab.

This article mentions the launch of Watson's Workforce Development Policy Lab and its partnership with RAISE US.

The Watson School has launched a new initiative, in collaboration with local and national organizations, to assess workforce development and career-oriented higher education programs. The initiative is the first of its kind to utilize big data and rigorous statistical analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs.