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…
As with any high fashion, the beauty and horror of
“big data” 1 is in the eye of the beholder. The question
that prompted the present…
New types of and approaches to data are enabling new forms of data-intensive political science, some of which in isolation appear to…
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time,…
Learning profiles show changes in student skills per year of schooling. Profiles are often shockingly shallow in developing countries 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…