As Yogi Berra once said, “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” Nothing could be truer when it comes to money in American politics. In the…
After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Scholars have increasingly drawn attention to rising levels of income inequality in the United States. However, prior studies have provided…
We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and…
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious…
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) affects one in ten people aged 65 or older and is the most expensive disease in the United States. We describe the…
The Bay Area is a place of opportunity, but also a place of incredible inequality and deprivation. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was…