Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective…
Book abstract: Since the hit HBO show The Wire premiered on June 2, 2002, it was viewed as much more than a typical police procedural. Over…
The great transition from farm to city is filled with economic, social, and political promise. Cities are the product of a triad of forces…
Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011…
Appearing a few months after the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Truly Disadvantaged, this article critically reflects on some…
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…
This study documents an increase in the prevalence of extreme poverty among US households with children between 1996 and 2011 and assesses…
In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity to obtain the…
This paper investigates the impact of elite capture on the allocation of targeted government
welfare programs in Indonesia, using both a…
The Full Birth History has become the dominant source of estimates of fertility levels and trends for countries lacking complete birth…