African-Americans for Charter Schools
This past week the NAACP, the National Urban League and other civil-rights groups collectively condemned charter schools.
Research
Informality, Poverty, and Gender in the Global South
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a ra
“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America
In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them.
Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Understanding the relationship between female employment and fertility is a vital ingredient for effective population policy.
The Challenge of Mass Incarceration in America
The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit considering how social class and race impact prison sentencing, one by Jeffrey Fagan p
More Than Just Race: A Rejoinder
Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook
A mass Atrocity Response Operation (MARO) describes a contingency operation to halt the widespread and systematic use of violence by state or non-state armed groups against non-combatants.
Review of Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail
Promises and Pitfalls in the Spatial Prediction of Ethnic Violence: A Comment
Despite increasing technical sophistication, the quantitative literature has made little progress in forecasting ethnic violence.
The Age of Obama: The Changing Place of Minorities in British and American Society
Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that
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