Nate Mackinnon MC/MPA 2014: Increasing access to education in Massachusetts
In his role as executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges, Mackinnon leads efforts to achieve free access to community college.
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Displaced Learners: Early Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Students into Italy’s Schools
The paper examines the early integration of Ukrainian refugee students into Italy's education system following the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain
Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on public, private, and nonprofit organiza
Behaviorally Designed Training Leads to More Diverse Hiring
Many organizations have shown interest in increasing the diversity of their workforces for various reasons.
Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign-born workers compared to native-born workers facilitates labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions.
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Getting rid of bias in schools
Recent research published in the American Economic Review by Harvard Kennedy School professors Michela Carlana and Eliana La Ferrara, and Bocconi University professor Paolo Pinotti, sheds light on how awareness about one's own personal biases may help to mitigate the effects these stereotypes have when working with students.
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