Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an…
This paper advances the analysis of incentives for technological innovation by examining the conditions under which first mover advantages…
Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their…
We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We…
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks…
On the Run is an engrossing book that should also become an ethnographic classic. It describes the world of young jobless black men who…
This article responds to Loïc Wacquant's elaboration of his overarching theoretical framework in his stimulating article ‘Marginality,…
Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice…
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed This article…