Most Americans endorse the ideal of equal opportunity, and many interpret this ideal as requiring that children from different backgrounds…
The American woman suffrage movement remade the U.S. Constitution and effected the broadest expansion of voting eligibility in the nation's…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from…