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Marta Dormal receives the 2022 Stone PhD Scholar Fellowship

August 31, 2022

HGSE doctoral student and SEED lab member Marta Dormal received one of the 10 fellowships awarded to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard for the academic year 2022-2023.

The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy awards fellowships to current Harvard PhD students in the social sciences who will advance a...

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Dr. Ricciardi!

August 31, 2022

Guiseppe Ricciardi defended his dissertation On the Linguistic Encoding of the Notion of Inference, which takes on the problem of epistemic modals from a new experimental and theoretical angle and makes the case for their encoding as evidentials (his committee was Kate Davidson, Ted Gibson, Susi Wurmbrand, and Manfred Krikfa). We're thrilled to hear that Giuseppe is taking up a position with Frontiers publishing upon graduation - huge congratulations, Giuseppe!!

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Announcing the 2022 Stone PhD Scholars

August 31, 2022

The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has awarded ten fellowships to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard.

Victoria Angelova (Economics) is interested in the relationship between access to education and income inequality.

David Arbelaez (Sociology & Social Policy) studies inequality, intergenerational mobility, organizations, and higher education.

Ashutosh Bhuradia (Education) is a PhD student in the...

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Remembering a True Giant: New Journal Article Recounts the Contributions of Martin Weitzman to Environmental Economics and Other Fields

Remembering a True Giant: New Journal Article Recounts the Contributions of Martin Weitzman to Environmental Economics and Other Fields

August 31, 2022

When Martin Weitzman, Research Professor of Economics at Harvard University, passed away in 2019, his friends and colleagues mourned the loss of a truly influential figure in the field of economics. His impressive portfolio of theoretical and empirical research on everything from unemployment to inflation to climate change was extraordinarily substantive and impactful.  

In a new article published in the...

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