Podcast appearances and mentions of John Friedman

  In this episode, Bard MBA in Sustainability student Deanna Diaz interviews Dale Ewing, Founder & CEO of Installnet, and John Friedman, sustainability expert and author, about transforming the office furniture industry. They discuss how 9 million tons of furniture end up in landfills annually and share Installnet's Ecoserv program for sustainable decommissioning. The conversation explores the limitations of current environmental impact models, the need for better metrics, and the business case for sustainability despite political headwinds. Dale and John emphasize that furniture reuse creates both environmental benefits and social impact through community donations, highlighting that "what gets measured inaccurately gets mismanaged.”

One of the many ways the COVID pandemic upended education was with regards to college admissions. Widespread lockdowns meant that in-person tests like the SAT and ACT were no longer offered. That led dozens of high-end universities to drop those requirements. Many thought this was a good thing, leveling the playing field for disadvantaged applicants. But recently, there's been a trend to reverse that. Which students are being hurt by this decision and which ones are getting a leg up? Our guest, John Friedman, Professor of Economics at Brown University and Co-Director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University, studies the impact of standardized testing on social capital and economic mobility.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Graduates from a small number of elite private colleges account for a disproportionate share of America's business and political leaders. In this episode, John Friedman joins us to discuss his recent study with Raj Chetty and David Deming that examines how admissions criteria at these institutions privilege students from high-income families. John is the Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International Public Affairs at Brown University, where he is the chair of the Economics Department. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. John is also a member of the U.S. Treasury Council on Racial Equity, a co-Editor of the American Economic Review, and a founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.

This week, John Dickerson re-joins Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to discuss the Republican presidential race, the Iowa caucuses, and the New Hampshire primary; the Loper Bright and Relentless cases at the Supreme Court and the possible end of Chevrondeference; and The Misguided War on the SAT with David Leonhardt of The New York Times.    Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Nate Cohn for The New York Times: Even the Battle for Second Turned Out Well for Trump in Iowa Ross Douthat for The New York Times: How Trump's Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court likely to discard Chevron; Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies; and Supreme Court curtails EPA's authority to fight climate change Cornell Law School's Legal information Institute: Administrative Procedure Act Jess Bravin for The Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Once Hailed This Case. Now They're at the Supreme Court to Gut It. Ian Millhiser for Vox: The Supreme Court cases asking the justices to put themselves in charge of everything, explained and A new Supreme Court case seeks to make the nine justices even more powerful David Leonhardt for The New York Times: The Misguided War on the SAT Ileana Najarro for EdWeek: The SAT Is Making a Comeback. Here's a Look at the Numbers and What They Tell Us Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, and John Friedman for Opportunity Insights: Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges Here are this week's chatters: Emily: The Ringer's podcast “Stick the Landing” and Andy Greenwald and Mallory Rubin: Did ‘Friday Night Lights' Stick the Landing? John: Richard Baldwin for VoxEU: China is the world's sole manufacturing superpower: A line sketch of the rise; Moss and Fog: Tree.fm is Your Aural Escape Into Nature; and tree.fm David: Steve Lopez for the Los Angeles Times: They take care of aging adults, live in cramped quarters and make less than minimum wage and ZipRecruiter: assisted living jobs in Washington, DC Listener chatter from Kevin Collins in San Antonio, Texas: Historic Vids on X   For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, David talks about his father, Dr. Paul Plotz. See Rachel Weller for The NIH Catalyst: Symposium Honors NIAM's Paul Plotz and The New York Times: Judith A. Abrams Engaged to Wed Dr. Paul H. Plotz; Candidate for Ph.D. at Harvard Is Fiancee of Boston Interne. See also John G. Zinn for the Society for American Baseball Research: Ebbets Field (Brooklyn, NY); National Institutes of Health; Union of Concerned Scientists; and The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow. In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with Christine Coulson about her book, One Woman Show: A Novel.   Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)   Podcast production by Cheyna Roth  Research by Julie Huygen   Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, John Dickerson re-joins Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to discuss the Republican presidential race, the Iowa caucuses, and the New Hampshire primary; the Loper Bright and Relentless cases at the Supreme Court and the possible end of Chevrondeference; and The Misguided War on the SAT with David Leonhardt of The New York Times.    Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Nate Cohn for The New York Times: Even the Battle for Second Turned Out Well for Trump in Iowa Ross Douthat for The New York Times: How Trump's Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court likely to discard Chevron; Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies; and Supreme Court curtails EPA's authority to fight climate change Cornell Law School's Legal information Institute: Administrative Procedure Act Jess Bravin for The Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Once Hailed This Case. Now They're at the Supreme Court to Gut It. Ian Millhiser for Vox: The Supreme Court cases asking the justices to put themselves in charge of everything, explained and A new Supreme Court case seeks to make the nine justices even more powerful David Leonhardt for The New York Times: The Misguided War on the SAT Ileana Najarro for EdWeek: The SAT Is Making a Comeback. Here's a Look at the Numbers and What They Tell Us Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, and John Friedman for Opportunity Insights: Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges Here are this week's chatters: Emily: The Ringer's podcast “Stick the Landing” and Andy Greenwald and Mallory Rubin: Did ‘Friday Night Lights' Stick the Landing? John: Richard Baldwin for VoxEU: China is the world's sole manufacturing superpower: A line sketch of the rise; Moss and Fog: Tree.fm is Your Aural Escape Into Nature; and tree.fm David: Steve Lopez for the Los Angeles Times: They take care of aging adults, live in cramped quarters and make less than minimum wage and ZipRecruiter: assisted living jobs in Washington, DC Listener chatter from Kevin Collins in San Antonio, Texas: Historic Vids on X   For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, David talks about his father, Dr. Paul Plotz. See Rachel Weller for The NIH Catalyst: Symposium Honors NIAM's Paul Plotz and The New York Times: Judith A. Abrams Engaged to Wed Dr. Paul H. Plotz; Candidate for Ph.D. at Harvard Is Fiancee of Boston Interne. See also John G. Zinn for the Society for American Baseball Research: Ebbets Field (Brooklyn, NY); National Institutes of Health; Union of Concerned Scientists; and The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow. In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with Christine Coulson about her book, One Woman Show: A Novel.   Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)   Podcast production by Cheyna Roth  Research by Julie Huygen   Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, John Dickerson re-joins Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to discuss the Republican presidential race, the Iowa caucuses, and the New Hampshire primary; the Loper Bright and Relentless cases at the Supreme Court and the possible end of Chevrondeference; and The Misguided War on the SAT with David Leonhardt of The New York Times.    Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Nate Cohn for The New York Times: Even the Battle for Second Turned Out Well for Trump in Iowa Ross Douthat for The New York Times: How Trump's Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court likely to discard Chevron; Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies; and Supreme Court curtails EPA's authority to fight climate change Cornell Law School's Legal information Institute: Administrative Procedure Act Jess Bravin for The Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Once Hailed This Case. Now They're at the Supreme Court to Gut It. Ian Millhiser for Vox: The Supreme Court cases asking the justices to put themselves in charge of everything, explained and A new Supreme Court case seeks to make the nine justices even more powerful David Leonhardt for The New York Times: The Misguided War on the SAT Ileana Najarro for EdWeek: The SAT Is Making a Comeback. Here's a Look at the Numbers and What They Tell Us Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, and John Friedman for Opportunity Insights: Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges Here are this week's chatters: Emily: The Ringer's podcast “Stick the Landing” and Andy Greenwald and Mallory Rubin: Did ‘Friday Night Lights' Stick the Landing? John: Richard Baldwin for VoxEU: China is the world's sole manufacturing superpower: A line sketch of the rise; Moss and Fog: Tree.fm is Your Aural Escape Into Nature; and tree.fm David: Steve Lopez for the Los Angeles Times: They take care of aging adults, live in cramped quarters and make less than minimum wage and ZipRecruiter: assisted living jobs in Washington, DC Listener chatter from Kevin Collins in San Antonio, Texas: Historic Vids on X   For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, David talks about his father, Dr. Paul Plotz. See Rachel Weller for The NIH Catalyst: Symposium Honors NIAM's Paul Plotz and The New York Times: Judith A. Abrams Engaged to Wed Dr. Paul H. Plotz; Candidate for Ph.D. at Harvard Is Fiancee of Boston Interne. See also John G. Zinn for the Society for American Baseball Research: Ebbets Field (Brooklyn, NY); National Institutes of Health; Union of Concerned Scientists; and The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow. In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with Christine Coulson about her book, One Woman Show: A Novel.   Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)   Podcast production by Cheyna Roth  Research by Julie Huygen   Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legacy admissions, particularly at elite colleges and universities, were thrust into the spotlight this summer when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action in admissions. The ruling raised many questions, and fortunately, Harvard Kennedy School professor David Deming and Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty were there with some important answers—having just wrapped up a 6-year study of the impact of legacy admissions at so-called “Ivy-plus” schools. Students spend years preparing to face judgment by colleges and universities as a worthy potential applicant. They strive for report cards filled with A's in advanced placement courses. They volunteer for service projects and participate in extracurricular activities. They cram furiously high-stakes standardized tests. They do all that only to find a big question many top colleges have is effectively: “Who's your daddy? And who's your mother? Did they go to school here?” Using data from more than 400 colleges and universities and about three and a half million undergraduate students per year, the two economists found that legacy and other elite school admissions practices significantly favor students from wealthy families and serve a gate-keeping function to positions of power and prestige in society.  Read Chetty and Deming's paper (co-authored by John Friedman): Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of College Admissions David Deming's Policy Recommendations:Build a robust system of collecting and measuring the distribution of income for admitted students at colleges across the country.Make standardized data in student income distribution transparent and widely available to facilitate better educational policy decisionmaking.Raj Chetty's Policy Recommendations:Rework legacy admissions and other practices at elite colleges to reduce bias in favor of students from high-income familiesImprove access for low- and middle-income students to a broader array of private, public, and community colleges as a means to promote economic mobilityRaj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. He is also the director of Opportunity Insights, which uses “big data” to understand how we can give children from disadvantaged backgrounds better chances of succeeding. Chetty's research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on topics ranging from tax policy and unemployment insurance to education and affordable housing has been widely cited in academia, media outlets, and Congressional testimony. Chetty received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard's history. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, he was a professor at UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. Chetty has received numerous awards for his research, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field.David Deming is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and the academic dean of the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also the faculty dean of Kirkland House at Harvard College and a research associate at NBER. His research focuses on higher education, economic inequality, skills, technology, and the future of the labor market. He is a principal investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He is also a faculty lead of the Project on Workforce, a cross-Harvard initiative that focuses on building better pathways to economic mobility through the school-to-work transition. He recently co-founded (with Ben Weidmann) the Skills Lab, which creates performance-based measures of “soft” skills such as teamwork and decision-making. In 2022 he won the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to Labor Economics. In 2018 he was awarded the David N. Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40. He served as a Coeditor of the AEJ: Applied from 2018 to 2021. He also writes occasional columns for the New York Times Economic View, which you can find linked on his personal website. Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Communications and Public Affairs is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University. 

The American Dream –the idea that anyone can succeed regardless of their background– often feels just like that, a dream. Today I speak with John Friedman, an economist and Co-Director of Opportunity Insights. John explains the barriers to opportunity that under-resourced communities face, and why removing these can improve the American economy. He also tells us why social mobility is harder to achieve today. Resources mentioned in this episode:Imprisonment rate of black Americans - PEW Research ReportDiversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges - John Friedman, Raj Chetty, David Demming (Opportunity Insights)Subscribe to “Say More with Tulaine Montgomery” wherever you get your podcasts. Produced by the New Profit and Hueman Group Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're getting better at talking about the roles that gender and race play in career progression. What's less spoken about is class or social mobility. In this episode, host Isabel Berwick talks to John Friedman, professor and chair of economics at Brown University, who studies the impact of childhood inequality, and hears from Sophie Pender, a London-based corporate lawyer and founder of the 93% Club, a UK network that connects and empowers people who went to state school, about how class discrimination continues to affect people at work and what to do about it.Do you have a workplace dilemma? Isabel and Jonathan Black, director of the careers service at Oxford university, are on hand to help you out. Submit it using this link.Want more? Free links here:Harvard faces federal probe over legacy admissionsUniversity is more than just a springboard to a jobUK youth face being worse off than parents, says social mobility chiefKPMG survey on social class and career progression hereThe 93% Club herePresented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT's head of audio.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's Quadcast, Boston Globe correspondent Kara Miller comments on the new report by Raj Chetty, David Deming and John Friedman, Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges, which points out the disproportionate admission of affluent students at elite colleges in comparison to students of comparable profiles with less means. Miller questions whether the hyper focus on who gets into so few schools takes away from the broader issue of opening up more opportunities across the board.

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, selective colleges, and their admissions practices, have received a lot of scrutiny. Does going to a highly selective college affect long-term outcomes? How much preference are legacy applicants given? To what extent does socioeconomic background influence chances of admission? And how can highly selective […]

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, selective colleges, and their admissions practices, have received a lot of scrutiny. Does going to a highly selective college affect long-term outcomes? How much preference are legacy applicants given? To what extent does socioeconomic background influence chances of admission? And how can highly selective colleges improve social mobility and diversify the American elite? In a new paper, Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges, Raj Chetty, David Deming, and John Friedman consider these questions and many others. The paper is full of interesting findings, so on this episode of The Report Card, two of the paper's authors, David Deming and John Friedman, join Nat to break it down. David Deming is the Academic Dean and Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. John Friedman is the Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs and the Economics Department Chair at Brown University. He is also a founding co-director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard UniversityShow Notes:Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private CollegesStudy of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own QualificationThe Future of Highly Selective College AdmissionsForked LightningOptimal Gerrymandering in a Competitive EnvironmentThe Lengthening of ChildhoodIn the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors EndureGetting In

Do admissions committees of the most selective colleges consider family income along with applicants' academic accomplishments, athletic achievements, legacy status, and extra-curricular activities? Given the outsized benefits of attending an “Ivy-plus” college (the eight Ivy league colleges plus Chicago, Duke, Stanford, and MIT), understanding whether children from highest-income families enjoy higher rates of admission compared to middle-class applicants with similar credentials is critical for understanding ongoing privilege and for considering policies to broaden opportunity and promote social advancement. David Deming joins EconoFact Chats to discuss his findings on these issues, drawing on his latest paper 'Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,' co-authored with Raj Chetty and John Friedman. David is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Do admissions committees of the most selective colleges consider family income along with applicants' academic accomplishments, athletic achievements, legacy status, and extra-curricular activities? Given the outsized benefits of attending an “Ivy-plus” college (the eight Ivy league colleges plus Chicago, Duke, Stanford, and MIT), understanding whether children from highest-income families enjoy higher rates of admission compared to middle-class applicants with similar credentials is critical for understanding ongoing privilege and for considering policies to broaden opportunity and promote social advancement. David Deming joins EconoFact Chats to discuss his findings on these issues, drawing on his latest paper 'Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,' co-authored with Raj Chetty and John Friedman. David is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Supreme Court may have ended race-conscious admissions in higher education. But the end of affirmative action seems to have added fuel to another contentious debate around college admissions policies. For decades, many elite, private institutions have given prospective college students preference if a relative attended the school or, in some cases, when a major donor was involved. While the practice of affirmative action is dead, legacy admissions continue. But more and more critics of the practice are calling on schools to do away with them, including President Biden. Host Juana Summers speaks with economist John Friedman, a professor and chair of economics at Brown University. He co-authored a study that quantifies the lasting socio-economic disparities between legacy students and their less affluent peers.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

In this episode of the Sustainable Minds podcast, John Friedman, Managing Director of ESG and Sustainability at Grant Thornton, joins Gary Baker and Roxanne "Rocket" White to dive into the evolution of business purpose and why one day what we call ESG will just be called business. John Friedman is a sustainability expert with more than twenty years of experience helping companies live their values and engage in authentic conversations by integrating their environmental, social, and economic aspirations into their cultures and business practices. Before Grant Thornton, John was the Sustainability Manager at WGL, Director of Corporate Responsibility Communications and Public Relations at Sodexo. John is also the author of Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class and was a Founding board member and Member of the Executive Committee Sustainable Business Network of Washington.

What is social mobility? How can we measure it? How can we promote it? Is the “American Dream” still alive? How did the Covid-19 pandemic impact social mobility around the world? To answer these questions, Pedro Pinto interviews John Friedman in this episode of “It's Not That Simple”, a podcast by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. An expert on social mobility, John Friedman is a Professor of Economics at Brown University, as well as a founding co-Director of Opportunity Insights. He studies the causes and consequences of inequality for kids, as well as policies to improve opportunity for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. His work has appeared in top academic journals as well as in major media outlets, has been cited by President Obama in his 2012 State of the Union Address, and has shaped policies at the federal, state, and local level. Most recently, John and his colleagues at Opportunity Insights have published the Economic Tracker, providing the most granular and real-time look at how COVID-19 is affecting the economy in cities and states across America. He worked as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the White House. He is also a Research Associate at NBER and a Co-Editor of American Economic Review. In this episode, Friedman discusses the importance of a person's childhood and young adulthood in shaping their adult life and how high a step in the social ladder they will be able to reach, as well as how much education – and high-quality teachers – matter to a person's social mobility. Friedman also addresses how society limits people's opportunities depending on the circumstances into which they were born, and how women still face more obstacles to their social mobility than men. Finally, Friedman looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on social mobility in different parts of the world, in a conversation well worth listening to. More on this topic • The Economic Tracker created by John Friedman and the Opportunity Insights team • John Friedman on the issues identified by the Economic Tracker • An interview with John Friedman • John Friedman on improving intergenerational mobility Other references in Portuguese • “Mobilidade Social em Portugal”, a study by Teresa Bago d'Uva and Marli Fernandes for the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation • Podcast Da Capa à Contracapa, “O elevador social em Portugal está estragado?” with Amílcar Moreira and Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues.

Na educação, o discurso mudou: se os pais de uma determinada época nos incentivavam (ou obrigavam) a escolher uma área que representasse uma ‘carreira de futuro', hoje ouvimos dizer que ‘o que importa é estudar aquilo que nos faz felizes'.Mas será que, na prática, houve mudanças?Será que a educação continua a ser um elevador social?Em que moldes?A família em que se nasce e os professores que se têm continuam a ser elementos determinantes? A Joana Pais e o Hugo van der Ding vão contar as evidências que se estudam na Economia da Educação. No final do episódio, caber-lhe-á a si julgar se estamos mais evoluídos que na época dos nossos avós ou, se afinal, embora mascarado de maior modernidade, continua tudo na mesma. REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEIS: ESTUDAR MAIS COMPENSA. MAS QUANTO?Ensino superior como elevador social:Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan (2017). Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility. NBER WORKING PAPER NO. 23618 Retorno do ensino básico e secundário: Angrist, Joshua D., and Alan B. Krueger (1991). Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 106, 979–1014. Em Portugal: Campos, M., and Reis, H. (2018). Returns to schooling in the Portuguese economy: a reassessment. Public Sector Economics 42, 215-242. EXTERNALIDADES DA EDUCAÇÃO: Lochner, L., and Moretti, E. (2004). The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports. American Economic Review, 94 (1), 155-189. Cui, Y., and Martins, P. S. (2021). What Drives Social Returns to Education? A Meta-Analysis. World Development, 148, 105651.  

This week we're joined by Author & Managing Director of ESG's & Sustainability at Grant Thornton, John Friedman.John has spent a career working in sustainability and has an uncanny ability to break down the importance of sustainability and the ESGs in a way that's easy for everyone to understand, while highlighting the uncomfortable truth's we must work to address. His recent book, Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class is also available online. By definition: “Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company's operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Environmental criteria consider how a company performs as a steward of nature. Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates. Governance deals with a company's leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights.”Tune in for a wonderful conversation with John and you'll come away knowing more about the ESGs and the critical importance they must play in our future. For more about John's work: Email: johnfriedmanCSR@gmail.comBook link: https://www.businessexpertpress.com/books/managing-sustainability-first-steps-to-first-class/Twitter: @johnfriedman

Title professional and attorney John Friedman, joins Jason to discuss if the title to your house can really be stolen. Buying a property can be the biggest investment you make. It is therefore only natural that you would want to make sure that your title to your house is fully protected.  John Friedman is a New Jersey State Council at First American Title.  Tune in until the end to learn:  Why it is not easy (but possible) for someone to steal the title to your house.  What happens to you if someone steals the title to your house.  What you can do to fully protect yourself from having the title to your house stolen.   Timestamps [00:30] Who is John Friedman, Esq.?   [00:53] Have you heard the ads about the title of your house getting stolen? [01:33] The protections in place that prevent people from stealing the title to your property.  [02:33] Can your property get stolen despite the protections in place?  [03:39] What happens if someone actually gets a mortgage on your property?  [05:48] Is standard title insurance enough to protect your title?  [09:54] Who is eligible for enhanced title insurance and how much is it?  [10:27] How can you get in touch with First American Title?  3 Key Takeaways There are many protections in place preventing people from stealing the title to your property. Title insurance companies evaluate real estate transactions carefully and determine who the owner of the property is. Buyers also need notaries to be involved when buying property, and it is a notary's job to verify that each person in the transaction is who they say they are.  Sometimes, it does indeed happen that the title to your property gets stolen. Sometimes, the lender doesn't require title insurance and/or the notary is on it (the perfect storm).  If someone buys the title to your property in an invalid way, they won't be able to put you on the street. The issue now is that you would have a cloud on the title that you would have to clean up. The question is, who pays for it? Buying enhance title insurance can cover your back in such scenarios.  Useful Links Connect with John Friedman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-friedman-esq-42b70829/ (LinkedIn )| https://www.firstam.com/ (First American Title Website) Connect with Jason Gabrieli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongabrieli (LinkedIn) | Email Like what you've heard… Learn more about HFM https://hfmadvisors.com/working-with-hfm (HERE) Schedule time to speak with us https://calendly.com/hfminquirycall/360 (HERE) Open an HFM Ignite account https://hfmadvisors.com/ignite (HERE)

On this episode, we're sharing one of our favorite conversations from another podcast produced by the Watson Institute: ‘The Rhodes Center Podcast,' hosted by political economist Mark Blyth. Mark recently talked with economist and Brown professor John Friedman about 'Bidenomics': what it is, what it isn't, and what it can tell us about our precarious economic recovery. You can watch the video of John and Mark's full conversation here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brxJXr7V1dE] You can subscribe to the Rhodes Center Podcast here: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rhodes-center-podcast/id1436607891] [Transcript forthcoming]

Today we're going to talk about some of the things that a shift to remote work has changed that may have gotten less notice than some more obvious things like Zoom meeting fails, companies' lack of remote work policies, and other things that were first to be addressed. There are very real, very human moments that are missed when we don't have face to face interaction, and while some things like this may be harder to quantify, they are no less important when we strive to create great employee experiences. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome a returning guest: John Friedman, author of “Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class” and Sustainability Manager, WGL.

Today we're going to talk about some of the things that a shift to remote work has changed that may have gotten less notice than some more obvious things like Zoom meeting fails, companies' lack of remote work policies, and other things that were first to be addressed. There are very real, very human moments that are missed when we don't have face to face interaction, and while some things like this may be harder to quantify, they are no less important when we strive to create great employee experiences. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome a returning guest: John Friedman, author of “Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class” and Sustainability Manager, WGL.

A story of how we changed the rules of the gameGlossary: environmental, social and governance (ESG), sustainable finance, Sullivan Principles, socially responsible investing, triple bottom line, impact investingSources:A Dictionary of Finance, podcast, European Investment Bank, 2018Investopedia.comwikipedia.orgESG Definition, Principles And Examples, YouMatter, 2019Milton Friedman Was Wrong About Corporate Social Responsibility, John Friedman, The Huffington Post, 2013Happy Workers, Richer Companies? Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 2014: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Williams serves as the Director of Policy Outreach at Opportunity Insights, a research and public policy lab based at Harvard University dedicated to using big data to improve upward mobility in America. The lab is led by Professors Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren. David is tasked with supporting research and evidence-based policy change by creating and leading partnerships with communities across the country. Opportunity Insights’ current projects include Creating Moves to Opportunity (CMTO), a national housing mobility initiative, and the Charlotte Opportunity Initiative, a community-wide place-based initiative aimed at improving economic opportunity throughout Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. With a mission to develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families to rise through poverty, Opportunity Insights adopts a unique lab-based, team-based approach to economic research with a large team of “pre-doctoral” research fellows and policy experts. They believe they’re helping create the future of social sciences research. After the Covid-19 pandemic hit the U.S., the lab embarked on an ambitious project – tracking and providing real-time economic data. At the heart of political debates happening today is the issue of re-opening the economy. On one side of the debate, some are suggesting that businesses need to open up immediately to stimulate an economy in trouble. However, data from last June provided by Opportunity Insights suggested that lifting state-mandated closing of businesses had no significant effect on economic activity. Likewise with the similar debate on stimulus checks, Opportunity Insights argued that the reduction of consumer spending associated with Covid-19 was due to supply shocks, not a lack of purchasing power per se. In other words, businesses couldn’t open up, and people weren’t willing to spend more because of the concern for the virus. Raj Chetty recommended expanding the social safety net and extending unemployment benefits as a means to limit hardship among low-income workers rather than an all-encompassing stimulus check, which might not be the best solution to boosting consumer spending. One of OI’s ongoing projects on social mobility at large is Creating Moves to Opportunity (CMTO), an experiment with the Seattle housing authority. This initiative works to reduce challenges families face when using federal rental assistance to find housing by offering services with the housing search process, help with landlords, security deposits etc. The initiative has shown much success, demonstrating an increase from 14% to 54% in moves to high-upward mobility neighborhoods. One misconception that CMTO’s data overturned is that families live in low-opportunity areas because of differences in rent prices. Raj Chetty, founding director of Opportunity Insights, has long been praised by many as the most influential applied micro-economist of this generation, especially with his innovation on using big data to study economics and improve upward mobility in America. The sheer vastness of OI’s big data (20 million children in the CMTO project) could lend us nuances that aggregate data cannot. What is the key to using big data to harness economic insights? To put it differently, what is preventing some average data scientist/economist/hedge fund manager with more data to gain more insights on issues like Covid and social mobility than the researchers at OI?

One of the central questions facing policymakers and community leaders is how to best understand and improve economic mobility.  Opportunity Insights was founded by economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren.  Their team of economists from Harvard and Brown University are working together to analyze new data and create new platforms to help community leaders make more informed decisions. The institute's research on economic mobility harnesses the power of big data to document both the decline of the American Dream in some neighborhoods and potential solutions to revive it. They also are providing real time insights into the economic recovery coming out of COVID.

We interview John Friedman about sustainability, trends for 2021, and why we need to be aware of the Batman / Bruce Wayne paradox in our lives and what we do. With an international career spanning 3 decades, John Friedman is an award-winning communications professional and recognized sustainability expert who has helped some of the leading global companies to integrate their operational, financial, and cultural aspirations into sustainable and responsible business practices. He has been instrumental in helping three companies, Lafarge, Sodexo and WGL Holdings rise to the top of the sustainability rankings (DJSI/RobecoSAM and MSCI) for their respective sectors; building materials, food service/facilities management and energy. He has helped define long-range (including science-based) targets, developed and tracked annual goals in support of those targets as well as managed programs relating to environmental stewardship, social progress and sound governance practices A frequent speaker at conferences and business classes, Friedman helps organizations to integrate practices including environmental stewardship, social progress and sound governance into their corporate cultures and everyday actions, helping enhance business reputation and drive results. On digital media he is recognized as a thought leader; on Triple Pundit's List of the Top 30 Sustainability Bloggers on Twitter, #3 on GreenBiz list of most influential 'twitterati', #14 on Guardian Business' 30 most influential sustainability voices in America, was voted #4 of the "100 leading voices in CSR" by Global CEO Magazine readers, and has regularly been included among the top voices in CSR by Forbes' Brandfog. An Albany State (New York) communications graduate, Friedman earned a management certificate as part of the Lafarge/Duke Management Training program at the Fuqua School of Business in 2000.

John Friedman is a Professor of Economics and International and Political Affairs at Brown.  Collaborating with scholars such as Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Friedman works to provide very granular information on very big issues. He is a founding co-director of Opportunity Insights, where researchers and policy analysts work together to analyze new data and create a platform for local stakeholders to make more informed decisions.An economist by training, Friedman uses the information collected by the IRS to tell researchers and the public whether and why the engines of opportunity we rely on actually deliver results. At the NYU Law Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium, Friedman presented work that he and his coauthors conducted about colleges and universities. That research “construct[ed] publicly available statistics on parents’ incomes and students’ earnings outcomes for each college in the US using de-identified data from tax records…. reveal[ing] that the degree of parental income segregation across colleges is very high, similar to that across neighborhoods.”  Their work also shows that some schools (such as the State University of New York at Stony Brook) succeed in helping students who grew up poor gain upward mobility.Today’s student quote is from Ha-Joon Chang's, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism.Resources:Professor Friedman’s bio.Dan Shaviro’s blog post about Friedman’s visit to the NYU Law Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium.The paper Friedman presented at the Colloquium, "Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States".The EITC article discussed in the episode, "Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhood to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings".The Pencil Question article is Darien Shanske, "Revitalizing Local Political Economy through Modernizing the Property Tax", 68 Tax L. Rev. 143 (2014).The student quote is taken from Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

According to the 2020 agrifood tech report - a total of $423 million was invested in startups innovating across Southeast Asia's food and agriculture segments in 2019. While that may seem low compared to more mature markets like the US and Europe, it represents a 400% increase since 2014.  To tap into this growing industry - AgFunder has launched an impact-focused investment vehicle, the GROW Impact Fund. To find out more, Prime Time's Rachel Kelly spoke to John Friedman, Director, AgFunder Asia & GROW Accelerator. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Join us to hear from 3 leading agri-food tech VCs on the state of the agri-food tech investment market in the wake of Covid-19 as well as the latest trends to watch!On this episode, we speak to: John Friedman, Director at AgFunder Andrew Ive, Founder of Big Idea Ventures Joseph Zhou, Managing Partner at Bits x Bites We got their expert takes on the health of the agri-food tech investment market and also discussed at length some of the promising trends and start-ups.Here's what you'll learn from this episode: While there have been some recent adjustments in deal flow with some correction in valuations, this does come after the industry had already witnessed a 5x growth in investments over the past few years.  If anything, Covid-19 has also made agritech investing a greater area of interest for a broader pool of investors - from Big Ag and Big Food corporations to family offices and governments. From Tyson to the Singapore government, the interest in the sector has grown as Covid-19 exposed the underlying fragilities and bottlenecks of the global food supply chain.  A key sector to watch is the Alternative Protein segment – be it plant-based meats or dairy, the relative safety and health benefits from consuming these products versus conventional animal protein products has grown in consumers' minds  Personalized nutrition is another key area our VCs are watching as consumers these days are paying much more attention to the scientific merits of what they eat, and are also willing to invest more in their health. When investing in startups, our experts look out for big ideas (AKA what is the TAM, and what is the impact), deep tech and strong execution.  For more information on Pinduoduo, you can check out our LinkedIn.And follow us on Facebook and Twitter @PinduoduoInc

If the world did the unthinkable to slow a pandemic, can it do the same to tackle critical issues facing the planet? Can there be a silver lining from coronavirus? Toby Ruckert, Jessica Groopman, David Hardoon, Brad Feld, Rob van Kranenburg, David Williams, Jeffrey Tiong & John Friedman join the final of the special series.

In Eco Money, Rachel Kelly speaks to movers and shakers in the sustainability world. In this episode, she talks to John Friedman, Director  Asia, AgFunder about agri-food tech investment

As economies reopen, a strange new norm unfolds from disrupted supply chains to inflated public markets. Amid tension & anxiety, can we imagine a way out of the crisis? AI experts David Hardoon, Jessica Groopman, PatSnap’s Jeffrey Tiong, AgFunder’s John Friedman, VCs David Williams, Brad Feld & IOT Council’s Rob van Kranenburg share solutions & ideas on the way forward.

With an international career spanning 3 decades, John Friedman is an award-winning communications professional and recognized sustainability expert who has helped some of the leading global companies to integrate their operational, financial, and cultural aspirations into sustainable and responsible business practices. The WGL family of companies—Washington Gas, WGL Energy, WGL Midstream and Hampshire Gas—are indirect, wholly-owned subsidiaries of AltaGas Ltd. and provides options for natural gas, electricity, green power and energy services, including generation, storage, transportation, distribution, supply and efficiency. John Friedman's Book Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class (Business Expert Press) provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities to drive results and enhance reputation.

In this episode, Provost Richard Locke speaks with Economist John Friedman, whose work combines economics, big data, and public policy to understand why some children rise out of poverty and some do not. He’s particularly interested in measuring upward mobility - or what we call “the American Dream”- whether low income children grow up to earn more than their parents. His research is designed to inform powerful policy changes across the country, in specific neighborhoods, and on college campuses.

Shawmut Design & Construction Vice-President Ron Simoneau and Brown University economics professor John Friedman.

Stat: 50. The percentage of American children today who will grow up to earn more than their parents did. Story: That’s down from over 90 percent for children born in the 1940s and its says a lot about the current state of the American Dream. John Friedman, who’s a leader of Opportunity Insights which is working to help people get out of poverty, says the opportunity to move up the economic ladder depends a lot on where you live and even who your kindergarten teacher was. He speaks with host Dan LeDuc about what factors can improve kids’ chances of success.

In this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Watson economist John Friedman [https://watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/JFriedman] about his work charting social mobility in America. He and his colleagues have created the “Opportunity Atlas,” [https://opportunityinsights.org/] an interactive tool that uses U.S. Census Bureau data to map social mobility in great detail. It measures the likelihood of moving up in society based on where people live -- down to the block they grew up on [Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/upshot/maps-neighborhoods-shape-child-poverty.html]. The findings are highly detailed and often surprising, and they’re changing the discussion about mobility in America. Download episode transcript

"What Is 'Good' In Higher Ed" explores changing definitions and new measures of quality and the value of college rankings. Guests include Jeff Selingo, Paul Glastris, John Friedman and Doug Webber.

"What Is 'Good' In Higher Ed" explores changing definitions and new measures of quality and the value of college rankings. Guests include Jeff Selingo, Paul Glastris, John Friedman and Doug Webber.

"What Is 'Good' In Higher Ed" explores changing definitions and new measures of quality and the value of college rankings. Guests include Jeff Selingo, Paul Glastris, John Friedman and Doug Webber.

John Friedman, Brown University Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs has devised a way to track economic mobility by neighborhood. #WPRO He says the "Opportunity Atlas" traces social and economic outcomes to the neighborhood level. https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

John Friedman, Brown University Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs has devised a way to track economic mobility by neighborhood. #WPRO He says the "Opportunity Atlas" traces social and economic outcomes to the neighborhood level. https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

Economist John Friedman of Brown University looks at the impact of the GOP tax cuts passed by Congress. #WPRO The different versions of the bills must now be reconciled by the House and Senate

Mark Blyth talks with Professor of Economics John Friedman about the Republican tax plan; who wins, loses, and does it really matter in the long run.

This episode of To a Degree explores why some institutions have more success than others in helping students from low-income backgrounds move up the socioeconomic ladder. Guests include John Friedman of Brown University, Shirley Reed of South Texas College, William Covino of California State University, Los Angeles, Kevin Carey of New America and Mark Schneider of American Institutes for Research.

This episode of To a Degree explores why some institutions have more success than others in helping students from low-income backgrounds move up the socioeconomic ladder. Guests include John Friedman of Brown University, Shirley Reed of South Texas College, William Covino of California State University, Los Angeles, Kevin Carey of New America and Mark Schneider of American Institutes for Research.

Brown University economics Prof. John Friedman takes a look at differences in the tax and economic proposals being advanced by Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Have you ever wanted to run your own radio station? Well, this October, the government agency responsible for administering America's airwaves, is giving you and your neighbors…the opportunity to create your own low-power FM radio station. It could result in hundreds or thousands of new radio stations across the US, and could radically change the countries' media landscape. On this edition we visit current LPFM stations, communities hopeful to have their own frequency soon, and find out how you can get involved. Special Thanks to The Prometheus Radio Project for some audio used in this show. Featuring: Domingo Jacinto & Rolando Salas,*WCIW DJ's; Cam Tu Nguyen, Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association community organizer; Brandy Doyle, Prometheus Radio Project Policy Director; Autumn Labbe-Renault, Davis Media Access Executive Director; Jeff Shaw, Davis Media Access Production Manager; Roots & Emmett Brady, KDRT Programmers, Albert Sykes. Young People's Project Director of Policy and Advocacy; Tracy Rosenberg, Common Frequency Board member; John Friedman, Southern Development Foundation President, Arlene Sweeting, WSLR Station Manager.  For More Information:   FCC on Low Power FM Radio  Prometheus Radio Project  Common Frequency Coalition of Immokalee Workers Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association Young People's Project KOCZ WSLR KDRT Davis Media Access Insect News Network Articles: Don't Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again $19.5k Seattle grant helps Hollow Earth radio reach for Low Power FM license   The post Making Contact – Low Power (Radio) to the People appeared first on KPFA.