News & Research
August 6, 2019 Center for American Progress
Research from John Friedman's Opportunity Atlas is cited. "Using data taken from the Opportunity Atlas—a collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University that provides data on economic mobility throughout the country—one can see that the South has the lowest level of economic mobility for all demographics."
April 30, 2019 The Washington Post
Assistant Professor Robert Blair in The Washington Post, " Beyond the lives lost and livelihoods destroyed, the Liberian civil wars shattered the already-strained relationship between citizens and the Liberian government, especially the police and courts."
February 11, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Charging in on our own and expecting a good result would tempt history. This is a crisis for Venezuela and Latin America, not the United States."
January 3, 2019 Brookings Institution
Senior Fellow Brian Atwood is among the authors of a letter to the OECD/DAC on efforts to give countries Official Development Assistance (ODA) credit for private development expenditures.
September 4, 2018
Senior Fellow Brian Atwood shares a brief history of the United States foreign assistance program, that he presented at the Aspen Institute in Colorado in early August.
June 13, 2018
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine, co-written by Public Policy program director Eric Patashnik, describes the U.S. medical system, the most advanced in the world, and its insufficient evaluation process of treatments that often become widespread.
January 19, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Since they have become an almost permanent feature of modern life, people are slow to react to them.
January 16, 2018
In a recent article in American Ethnologist, anthropologist Sarah Besky explains the inheritance and maintenance of tea plantation houses in Darjeeling, India.
December 6, 2017 Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network
Senior Fellow Brian Atwood weighs in on a proposal for consolidating development and humanitarian relief in the United States government.
September 12, 2017 US News
Jessaca Leinaweaver, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in US News "Baby box programs purport to protect children by allowing them to be safely abandoned to the care of the government."
July 7, 2017 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Is India’s past, so marked by communal riots, transmuting itself into an era of lynching? Of immense political significance, this question is now squarely in front of us all."
February 10, 2017 Bloomberg
A paper co-authored by Watson economist Justine Hastings adds to growing evidence that for every additional dollar in food stamp benefits recipients get, nearly all of it goes into buying additional food.
December 12, 2016 The Washington Post
Eric Patashnik in The Washington Post, "Just as liberals in power often discover that it is difficult to expand the scope of government, conservatives in power have traditionally found that the task of dismantling existing programs can be daunting even under favorable circumstances."
November 29, 2016 The Guardian
Research by Mark Blyth, professor of political economy, was cited in an article about austerity.
October 18, 2016 RI NPR
Humanitarian crises are multiplying around the globe, but a Brown University researcher says we could be responding in a more rigorous way.
September 21, 2016 The Washington Post
Michelle Jurkovich in The Washington Post, "We haven’t decided what 'hunger' is, nor is there agreement on how to measure it."