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Diversity, Qualifications, and Ideology: How Female and Minority Judges Have Changed, or Not Changed, Over Time

Ever since the Carter Administration began appointing female and minority judges in large numbers, scholars have sought to measure their impact.

Women at the Top: The Pipeline as Pipe Dream

A Common-Space Scaling of the American Judiciary and Legal Profession

We extend the scaling methodology previously used in Bonica (2014) to jointly scale the American federal judiciary and legal profession in a common-space with other political actors.

Judicial Reform as a Tug of War: How Ideological Differences Between Politicians and the Bar Explain Attempts at Judicial Reform

What predicts attempts at judicial reform? We develop a broad, generalizable framework that both explains and predicts attempts at judicial reform.

New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member

We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures.

Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.

Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa

In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A.

Expanding the Economic Potential of Women Informal Workers

The majority of women workers in developing countries – and a significant share of women workers in developed countries – are informally employed.

The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

Overcoming Barriers and Addressing Gender Dimensions in Universal Health Care for Informal Workers: Lessons from India and Thailand

This chapter explains the necessity of health care for the working poor, especially women. It also provides solutions to address barriers to health care access.