Can Political Affirmative Action for Women Reduce Gender Bias?
While women have the legal right to equal participation in politics in almost every country around the world, they remain vastly underrepresented in local and national politics.
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Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
The Ascension
When Barack Obama steps into the Oval Office for the first time as president, he will be in the unique position of having earned the support not just of Americans who chose him in a historic and drama
Why Did Financial Globalization Disappoint?
The stylized fact that there is no correlation between long-run economic growth and financial globalization has spawned a recent literature that purports to provide newer evidence and arguments in fav
Nurturing Sustainability
The present system for training and nurturing young scientists is almost certainly not up to the job.
South Africa's Export Predicament: Erratum
What Happens When States Have Genuine Alternative Certification? We Get More Minority Teachers and Test Scores Rise
The article discusses the process of teacher certification, noting that all states have a standard certification process requiring a college degree and 30 hours of education coursework, and that s
A Right to Work? A Right to Leisure? Labor Rights as Human Rights
Labor rights are the first to come up for criticism when accounts of human rights are offered in response to philosophical questions about them, and notoriously so Article 24, which talks about “rest
Foreword: The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community
The Split Personality CPO
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