Martha Alter Chen . 2013. “” in special issue of the Indian Journal of Industrial
Relations (IJIR) on “Unorganized Workers” guest-edited…
Book abstract: Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018…
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
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Recently, two entire volumes of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 621, 2009; and Vol. 627, 2010)…
President Barack Obama last month signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for…
Book abstract: In the months following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast in 2005, ATD Fourth World* Volunteer Corps members…
Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed. I…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…
Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp…