What happens to parents if kids don't go back to school? (interview with Emily Oster)
July 20, 2020 Bloomberg
Research Matters
Interdisciplinary Focus
Let’s Rethink This: Deconstructing the Concept of Development
A Message from Director Ed Steinfeld
Standing in Solidarity
Interdisciplinary Focus
Undaunted by the Pandemic, the New MPA Cohort Is Off and Running
In The News
Consumers came back in June, but for how long? (Opportunity Insights cited)
July 17, 2020 New York Times
Managing elective medical procedures (interview with Emily Oster)
July 16, 2020 Bloomberg
News from Watson
Virtually United
May 19, 2020
The Unexpected Price of Oil
May 5, 2020
Learning Research by Doing Research
April 2, 2020
Research Briefs
Unpacking the Drivers of Racial Disparities in School Suspension and Expulsion
July 1, 2020
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August 4
Covid Today: Is America Really Ready to Re-Open?
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
May 31 – September 2
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Student Experience
Students Produce Policy Videos on the Geopolitics of Oil and Energy
July 15, 2020
Webcasts
Challenges to Global Anti-Black Racism: A Conversation
July 16, 2020
Federal COVID Response and Recovery Efforts: A Conversation with US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
June 24, 2020
Angrynomics ─ Virtual Book Talk
June 18, 2020
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