Making Sense of Parenting Advice with Emily Oster (interview)
July 2, 2019 KQED
Economist Emily Oster joined KQED to help cut through all of the advice soon-to-be and new parents receive.
July 2, 2019 KQED
Economist Emily Oster joined KQED to help cut through all of the advice soon-to-be and new parents receive.
June 27, 2019 The New York Times
A working paper by Postdoctoral Research Associate Andrew Engelhardt is cited in an opinion piece discussing the shape of the Democratic Party.
June 27, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on July 17, saying "The Congressional minority should have insisted on public hearings two years ago."
June 26, 2019 Education Dive
Teachers who are able to engage with students have more success with boosting attendance numbers in middle and high schools, according to a new study focusing on attendance as a teacher evaluation metric from Postdoctoral Research Associate Jing Liu and Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform Susanna Loeb.
June 17, 2019 The Atlantic
Professor of Economics & Professor of International and Public Affairs Emily Oster discusses the lack of guidance for choosing new parent rules in her article.
June 13, 2019 The New York Times
In an opinion piece in The New York Times, Assistant Professor of Education Matthew Kraft discusses how the teacher pay proposals from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates need a bit more focus.
June 11, 2019 The Washington Post
Jeff Colgan in The Washington Post, "Given the huge U.S. network of overseas military bases, the Department of Defense has traditionally seen the issue of environmental liability as a slippery slope, and takes a hard line against assuming responsibility."
June 10, 2019 Citizen Truth
Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs Richard Arenberg quoted regarding probable pace of timeline.
June 10, 2019 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg recently joined WPRI's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss impeachment, the Senate, and the filibuster.
June 10, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on the possibility of Democrats getting President Trump's tax returns, saying "...once you move into 2020 and begin to approach the election, the potential is there that Trump could just run out the clock."
June 6, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on whether House Democrats will subpoena Special Coounsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress, saying "I don’t think the public understanding of the Mueller report ever recovered from Barr rolling out his summary, and then leaving it unchallenged for over a month."
June 5, 2019 NPR
Economist John Friedman comments on the plans Democratic presidential hopefuls have for education, saying "There's definitely been a turn against a set of ideas in education that we've been championing as effective."
June 3, 2019 The Guardian
Chair of the Political Science department, Wendy Schiller, comments on President Trump's abundance of supporters willing to repeat and endorse all of his claims. "The Republican establishment will push back through Fox, the Wall Street Journal and other outlets. The titans of the economy will put up with stuff only so long."
May 28, 2019 Skullduggery's Buried Treasure Podcast
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg joined Skullduggery's Buried Treasure podcast to discuss the Iran-Contra affair and the differences in how Congress operated back then compared to the current presidential administration today.
May 23, 2019 The New York Times
Emily Oster in The New York Times, "The differences we see by demographic groups in the United States — the inequality of outcomes for children from poor and rich backgrounds — are driven by a combination of vast differences in experiences."
May 21, 2019 The Atlantic
Economist Emily Oster in The Atlantic, "Put simply, mothers and fathers ought to come clean about the nature of their lives. We can’t fix problems that we pretend don’t exist; we can’t improve the lot of parents at work if we pretend we aren’t parents."
May 20, 2019 The New York Times
Economist John Friedman comments on the SAT test's new adversity rating, saying "For each extra year you spend in a good environment, you do a little better. It’s very powerful when somebody overcomes that."
May 19, 2019 Scientific American
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs Emily Oster explains how to make the best decisions for your particular child, using the scientific evidence at hand.
May 14, 2019
In a chapter of the recently published Lessons from the Clean Air Act, Professor Eric Patashnik, Director of the Master of Public Affairs Program, examines market-based policies in the Clean Air Act.
May 13, 2019 Business Insider Australia
In a large study that used a nationally represenative dataset, researchers reported differences in groups of children who watch TV at a younger age compared to those who don't.