Highlights
of media coverage of Harris School faculty. For complete
coverage, visit /News/harris-school.
September
Susan Mayer—BBC Five
Live
Interview on the rising U.S. poverty rates
Tomas Philipson—New
York Times
“Employment and Prosperity Affect Body Inflation”
October
Susan
Mayer—WBEZ talk show Odyssey
Discussion on whether the welfare reforms of the 1990s will withstand the current
economic climate.
Jeffrey Milyo—USA
Today
Campaign finance reform op/ed, “Political Process Works”
Shelley
Clark—University
of Chicago Chronicle
“Safety of Early Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa is a Faulty Presumption”
Thomas
DeLeire—University
of Chicago Chronicle
“Economic Policy Adviser DeLeire Speaks of Experience in Washington”
November
Robert LaLonde and Susan
George – University of Chicago Chronicle
“Researchers Study Incarcerated Mothers’ Prospects”
David
Meltzer—Chicago
Daily Herald, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
“Who Will Take Care of You in the Hospital? Chances Are Getting Better
That It Won’t be Your Regular Physician, but a New Breed of In-Hospital
Doctors”
Tomas
Philipson—Financial Times (London)
“Land of the Fat: Is It Really Our Fault That We’re So Obese, Asks
Mark Wallace, Reaching For Another Drumstick”
Ariel Kalil—Center
for the Advancement of Health, online newsletter
“Young Mothers’ Marital Status, Not Age, Linked to Later Depression”
Ariel
Kalil—Health Newswire
“Marital Status of Young Mothers Linked to Later Depression”
December
David
Meltzer—New York Times
“Performance: Specialty Gets High Marks”
David
Meltzer and Willard
Manning—University of Chicago Chronicle
“’Hospitalists,’ A New Medical Specialty, Reduce Mortality,
Cut Costs, Study Shows”
Robert
LaLonde—Financial Times (London)
“Heavy Losses at the World’s Second Largest Carmaker Are Fueling
Fears about Its Future, Despite a Big Cash Pile and Cost-Cutting Plan”