Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and…
In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households…
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe…
As we celebrate the anniversary of Martin Luther King's birth, we should ask why so many of the problems against which he struggled —…
While existing research has documented persistent barriers facing African-American job seekers, far less research has questioned how job…
Do schools reduce or perpetuate inequality by race and family income? Most studies conclude that schools play only a small role in…
Participation in extracurricular activities is associated with positive youth outcomes such as higher education attainment and greater…
In this paper, I use two new data sets to demonstrate that black federal judges are consistently overturned on appeal more often than…
In 2008 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Harvard Kennedy School (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) jointly embarked on an ambitious project – a second…