Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences,
yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…
The article discusses the need for positive attitudes toward diversity in education. The author notes that discussion and terminology…
What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented…
The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso.1 It focused on girls in particular and was…
For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of…