This past week the NAACP, the National Urban League and other civil-rights groups collectively condemned charter schools. Claiming to speak…
In the months before the January earthquake, Haiti and its criminal justice institutions were the subject of an unprecedented effort by two…
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has…
In “The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing,” Ahmad Faruqui lays out a case for
improved efficiency in using dynamic prices for retail electricity…
In 2007, a total of 12,632 people in the United States were murdered with firearms, and it is estimated that another 48,676 were treated in…
In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them…
Understanding the relationship between female employment and fertility is a vital ingredient for effective population policy. This column…
The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit considering how social…