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This is a survey of recent work by the author and M. Wilson on the two-weights problem for the gradient of harmonic functions on the half-space. Although the problem is not completely solved, there are some sharp results. A sample result is the following. Let \(v\) be a doubling measure on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (so that \(v(2B) \leq C v(B)\) for all balls \(B\)), and let \(0 < p < q < \infty\). Then one has the weighted estimate \[ \|\nabla u\|_{L^q(\mathbb R^{n+1}_+,d\mu)} \leq C \|N(u) \|_{L^q(\mathbb R^n, dv)} \] for all harmonic functions \(u\) on the half-space \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) if and only if one has the Carleson-type condition \[ \mu( T(B)) \leq C r(B)^q v( B) \] for all balls \(B\) in \(\mathbb R^n\), where \(r(B)\) is the radius of \(B\), \(T(B)\) is the upper tent region \[ T(B) = \{ (x,t): x \in B, r(B)/2 \leq t \leq r(B) \}, \] and \(N(u)\) is the non-tangential maximal function \[ N(u)(x) = \sup_{(y,t)\in \mathbb R^{n+1}_+:|t-x|< y} |u(t,y)|. \] The tools used in the proofs include atomic decomposition, and duality theorems between tent spaces and certain mixed-norm spaces.