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Jennifer Hochschild

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne professor of Government and Professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her most recent books, both coauthored, are Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics (Oklahoma University Press, 2015); and Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (Princeton University Press, 2012). She was founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is current president of the American Political Science Association. She will become chair of the Harvard Government Department in July 2016.

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Three Puzzles in the Study of Inequality

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Jennifer Hochschild’s contribution is the first of several essays in our “What Is Inequality?” series that reflect on how university-based programs and institutes promote research and training on inequality. Hochschild outlines how the program she leads at Harvard provides both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives for the study of social policies that shape or address inequality. She then discusses three understudied substantive dimensions of inequality that demand further attention from students of social policy: deeper knowledge of those at top of the socioeconomic ladder, the relationship between economic and political inequalities, and better understanding of the trade-offs involved when inequality increases within historically marginalized groups.

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July 5, 2016
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