A Causal Framework for Observational Studies of Discrimination
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes.
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The GI Bill was one of the worst racial injustices of the 20th century. Congress can fix it.
Benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making
In the dominant paradigm for designing equitable machine learning systems, one works to ensure that model predictions satisfy various fairness criteria, such as parity in error rates across race, gend
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers.
Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system.
The Foundational Lawlessness of the Law Itself: Racial Criminalization & the Punitive Roots of Punishment in America
Empirical researchers and criminal justice practitioners have generally set aside history in exchange for behavioral models and methodologies that focus primarily on crime itself as the most measurabl
When Gender Matters in Organizational Negotiations
A person's gender is not a reliable predictor of their negotiation behavior or outcomes, because the degree and character of gender dynamics in negotiation vary across situations.
Launching a Cross-disciplinary and Cross-national Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood
The aim of this chapter is to explain the motivations for launching an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement.
Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’ methodology of Athey et al.
Reducing Barriers to Engaged Fatherhood: Three Principles for Promoting Gender Equity in Parenting
The purpose of this concluding chapter is to offer scholars, policy makers, and organizational leaders a preliminary framework for diagnosing barriers to engaged fatherhood and for generating policies
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