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…
This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift crisis, in which an estimated 125,000…