Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment influences the choices of…
Despite the high level of funding and policy interest in prisoner
reentry, there is still little rigorous scientific evidence to guide…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting,…
Estimates obtained from the first nationally representative longitudinal study of students in the United States in grades K-8, robust to…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…