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      • 19 Jan 2021
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      Engaging Community to Create Proactive, Equitable Public Safety

      Saint Paul, Minnesota Mayor Melvin Carter swept into office in 2018 promising equity. He wanted a new public safety framework that would be rooted in community. Then, with the COVID-19 pandemic wiping out much of the city’s budget and the May 2020 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in neighboring Minneapolis sparking calls to defund the police, how would Mayor Carter make these changes happen? Professor Mitch Weiss discusses the challenges and rewards of “possibility government” in his case, "Community-First Public Safety."  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 14 Sep 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

      by Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein

      The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.

      • 27 Jul 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      by Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding, and Feng Zhu

      Analysis of data from the largest open-access repositories for social science in the world finds that female researchers’ productivity significantly dropped relative to that of male researchers as a result of the lockdown in the United States.

      • 18 Jun 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

      by Rachel Layne

      Phone or flour? People with lower incomes are judged more harshly for what they choose to buy, say Serena F. Hagerty and Kate Barasz. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 01 Jun 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

      by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton

      Across varying political ideologies and income levels, Americans both underestimate the current extent of inequality of mortality and healthcare, and prefer each to be more equally distributed.

      • 25 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Researchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 08 Oct 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

      by Rachel Layne

      Learning what your co-worker earns can make you less productive, but knowing your manager's paycheck can motivate you to work harder. Research by Zoë Cullen. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 10 Sep 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

      by Robin J. Ely

      Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s Men and Women of the Corporation inspired and informed a generation of scholars studying gender, status, and power. Robin J. Ely interviews Kanter about her groundbreaking research and why it remains relevant today. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 02 Jul 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

      by Roberta Holland

      New research by Ethan Rouen and colleagues suggests that corporate tax cuts contribute to income inequality. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 13 May 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

      by Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

      This paper examines corporate tax reform by estimating the causal effect of state corporate tax cuts on top income inequality. Results suggest that, while corporate tax cuts increase investment, the gains from this investment are concentrated on top earners, who may also exploit additional strategies to increase the share of total income that accrues to the top 1 percent.

      • 12 Jan 2018
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

      Re: William W. George

      As a young man, Martin Luther King, Jr. was unsure about his future as a leader of a social change. Bill George explains how King grew to become one of the most powerful civil rights leaders in history. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Nov 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed

      by Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler

      This paper based on a large online study finds that individuals tend to differentiate in their concerns about fairness along specific dimensions, especially time and money, and are much more worried about fairness in one (time) than the other (money). These attitudes may help explain a seemingly wide variety of phenomena.

      • 22 Aug 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Investors as Stewards of the Commons?

      by George Serafeim

      This paper lays out a framework suggesting that index investors and adequately funded asset owners are a potential mechanism to build and sustain pre-competitive collaborations for addressing environmental and social issues. With long time horizons and significant common ownership of companies within the same industry or supply chain, investors could serve as vehicles for the establishment and/or stability of collaborations between companies.

      • 23 Mar 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

      by Carmen Nobel

      In research involving virtually every top executive in Sweden, Matti Keloharju and colleagues document what many already believe: women get fewer opportunities at top positions and lower pay when they get those positions. But just what is causing this gender gap is not so clear. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 02 Dec 2015
      • What Do You Think?

      What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

      by James Heskett

      SUMMING UP James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality" and ponder ways to give women access to the same management opportunities as men. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 04 Jan 2012
      • What Do You Think?

      Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

      by Jim Heskett

      Summing Up Comments were large in number and broad of opinion reflecting on Professor Jim Heskett's question, Does income inequality promote or stunt economic growth? Is there a "right" right amount of income disparity? Closed for comment; 67 Comment(s) posted.

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