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On the Fast Track: The Spread of Gender Quota Policies for Elected Office

What has driven the worldwide adoption and subsequent revision of gender quota policies?

Extinguishing the Fires This Time

Inequity Outside the Classroom: Growing Class Differences in Participation in Extracurricular Activities

Research shows that extracurricular activities help cultivate the skills, connections, and knowledge that prepare children for lifelong success, but low-income students are increasingly excluded from

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers, street vendors, waste pickers and domestic workers.

New Perspectives on the Declining Significance of Race: A Rejoinder

In sharp contrast to many earlier studies, the articles in this symposium encompass a careful discussion of the two major underlying themes of my book,The Declining Significance of Race: (1) the effec

Did We Lose the War on Poverty?—II

Although an accurate estimate of how the poverty rate has changed since 1964 would show that we are much closer to achieving President Lyndon Johnson’s original goal of eliminating poverty than most r

Ethnic Complementarities After the Opening of China: How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors

The largest and most important flow of scientific talent in the world is the migration of international students to the doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries.

The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and failures of the diverse strategies that Johnson and his successors

Was Moynihan Right?

In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households headed by unmarried mothers.

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success.