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Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their…
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Parental involvement is correlated with student performance, though the causal relationship is less well established. This experiment…
On the Run is an engrossing book that should also become an ethnographic classic. It describes the world of young jobless black men who…
This article responds to Loïc Wacquant's elaboration of his overarching theoretical framework in his stimulating article ‘Marginality,…