Around the world, there are often contentious debates on whether or not to provide social safety net programs to the poor. Critics often…
An interview with Professor Robert D. Putnam about his new book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."
Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social
composition of neighborhoods. Yet, the relationship between…
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school
assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of…
From the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, a number of developments turned out to have profound effects on destitute families in the United…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based…
In sharp contrast to many earlier studies, the articles in this symposium encompass a careful discussion of the two major underlying themes…