Disease is an old companion to urban life. The golden age of Periclean Athens was arguably ended by the plague that struck that polis in…
The COVID-19 pandemic brought public awareness to the vital role that front-line service sector workers play in our economy and daily lives…
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("the Act" or "ARPA") has resulted in the single largest infusion of federal funding for Native…
Modern cities face many new challenges as a result of the ‘digital age’, in particular the uncertain promise of high urban benefits from…
The authors develop a model of cumulative disadvantage relating three axes of disadvantage for hourly workers in the US retail and food…
The time that parents spend teaching and playing with their young children has important consequences for later life achievement and…
In this article, we review a growing empirical literature on the effectiveness and fairness of the US pretrial system and discuss its…
Background
Service-sector workers in the U.S. face extremely limited access to paid family and medical leave, but little research has…