Category: Research Awards

The Choices, Experiences, and Role of Second Homeowners in Boston

Led by Ph.D. candidate Meaghan Stiman under the advisement of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, this study seeks to understand a rarely studied class of urban resident: the second homeowner. Stiman will evaluate how Boston second homeowners frame their residential choices and experiences, their civic, cultural and economic contributions, and their impact on neighborhood character over time. […]

Multi-Party Computation Software to Evaluate Pay Equity in the City of Boston

Continuing a project that began in November 2014, Professor and Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros sought to create a proprietary software tool to enable area corporate employers to anonymously share employee wage data by gender, race/ethnicity and level. The goal is to track the gender wage gap across thousands of employees in the Boston region […]