How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…
Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged…
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Kansas voters opted against overturning a state constitutional right to an abortion on Aug. 2, 2022. A few days later, Indiana lawmakers…
Justice Samuel Alito said that abortion policy crafted by elected representatives in the states would be more responsive to what…
Many topics social scientists study are sensitive in nature. Although we know some people may be reluctant to respond to sensitive…
Recent work highlights the role of causality in designing equitable decision-making algorithms. It is not immediately clear, however, how…
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes. For example, in the…