Your Questions On Spanking, Siblings and Sleep Training, Answered (Q&A with Emily Oster)
September 20, 2021 NPR
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Is China already the world’s most dominant economy? (Arvind Subramanian cited)
September 16, 2021 The Economist
Emily Oster, the Brown economist, is launching a new data hub on schools and the pandemic (Emily Oster cited)
September 15, 2021 New York Times
Research Briefs
Innovation contests, vaccine diplomacy, and health nationalism: The case of Kenya
September 14, 2021
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Political ‘couples therapy’ could heal a divided America, study finds
July 1, 2021
New Year, New Leadership
June 7, 2021
Director Ed Steinfeld Letter
April 26, 2021
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September 20
Juliette Kayyem ─ Managing Disasters in an Age of Climate Change
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
September 23
Jeff Shesol '91 ─ Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Watson panel discusses costs of post-9/11 wars
September 16, 2021
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