Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S. judges and lawyers, we present evidence showing how…
Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who…
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
In America, there’s a significant kind of public insistence that one’s “freedom” is fundamentally tied to one’s wealth.
Much of the…
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This study investigates change over time in the level of hiring discrimination in US labor markets. We perform a meta-analysis of every…
This is the first installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books…
Recently, I have worked with a number of professional services firms committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. Many offer diversity…
Iris Bohnet, a behavioral economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, spoke to the founders of two behavioral design start-ups,…
The present study analyzes the risk factors responsible for the exposure of migrant and refugee children to physical, psychological, and…
Popular commentary often points to the lower lifetime earnings and longer expected life spans of women relative to men as a reason to be…