The degree was awarded to Jason Richwine, who recently was in the news when the Heritage Foundation, where he was working, released a paper he co-write claiming that the immigration reform bill being debated in Congress would cost the government $5.3 trillion. (It won’t.) It then came to light that Richwine had written a dissertation, for which he received a PhD in public policy from Harvard in 2009, titled “IQ and Immigration Policy”, which claimed that Hispanic immigrants generally have lower IQs than non-Latino white Americans.
