Teaching

Christopher Jencks

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy
(Kennedy School of Government)

Biographical Note

CHRISTOPHER JENCKS is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy. He has taught at Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Earlier, he was a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington (1963-67) and an editor of the New Republic (1961-63). He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the American Prospect. His recent research deals with changes in the material standard of living over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and welfare reform. His books include The Academic Revolution (with David Riesman); Inequality, Who Gets Ahead?; The Urban Underclass (with Paul Peterson); Rethinking Social Policy; The Homeless; and The Black White Test Score Gap (with Meredith Phillips).

08/20/2007

A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years

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Contact

617-495-0546 (Phone)
617-496-5794 (FAX)

414 Taubman; Kennedy School of Government; Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Hours

By appointment.

On Leave 07-08