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.
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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
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.
The Travails of Urban Field Research
Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an immediate splash both within and outside academia.
Gender Gap Report 2014
Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time.
On America's Front Lines
On the Run is an engrossing book that should also become an ethnographic classic. It describes the world of young jobless black men who have seldom finished high school.
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