The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million individuals admitted to jails each year. These…
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role…
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role…
In observational studies of discrimination, the most common statistical approaches consider either the rate at which decisions are made (…
We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal…
Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome…
Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of…
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness…
We document a sharp rise in gunshots coupled with declining 911 call volume across thirteen major US cities in the aftermath of the murder…