Very interesting lunchtime talk by Dan O’Brien (from Boston Area Research Initiative) and Chris Winship (at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of BARI). As Chris points out, most data…| Social Capital Blog
David Campbell (Co-Author of American Grace) has a piece in TIME.com on the link between religion and giving. Excerpt: Over the last twenty years, one of the most stunning changes to the American s…| Social Capital Blog
Kevin Carey, director of the education-policy program at the New America Foundation, writes in Chronicle of Higher Education the speech he wished the dean of admissions had given to the incoming cl…| Social Capital Blog
Scholars Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hedren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez (from Harvard and Berkeley) have garnered richly deserved attention for their interesting retrospective look at which places …| Social Capital Blog
One of our post-doctoral researchers, Jen Silva, has a very interesting op-Ed in Sunday’s New York Times that comes out of her research talking to young people in Lowell, MA and Richmond, VA …| Social Capital Blog
I’ve written in the past about efforts to use 21st century technological tools to enhance neighbors’ connections with each other, the sort that are far less common today than in the 196…| Social Capital Blog
Jon Murad, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Kennedy School, is going off to be a cop in New York City. His Graduate Student address is a wonderful call to serve. Snippets: “I’m probably…| Social Capital Blog
Judith Shulevitz, in the May 13, 2013 New Republic has an interesting read “The Lethality of Loneliness.” Excerpt: “Psychobiologists can now show that loneliness sends misleading …| Social Capital Blog
The 2012 Current Population Survey November supplement has now been released which enables one to examine voting patterns by different racial and ethnic groups and different age groups. Youth turno…| Social Capital Blog
While parts of the economy have rebounded since the Great Recession of 2008, the effects have been much worse for the poor, and especially the less-educated young Americans, and those not fortunate…| Social Capital Blog
