Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic composition of nonviolent movements shapes their efficacy, in eithe
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on whether they are better in male-typed fields (math) versus female-typed fields (li
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of confidence in the ability to succeed in getting a job.
We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial interaction affects stereotypes, attitudes and performance.
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions, noncriminal policy interventions, and criminal justice reforms, ch
Paid sick leave helps workers recover from illness and manage care obligations and protects public health. Yet access to paid sick leave remains limited and unequal in the United States.
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials.
We develop a framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white heart attack patients.
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure disparate impact, regardless of its source, in the context of bail decisions.
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