Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes. For example, in the…
Benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
In the dominant paradigm for designing equitable machine learning systems, one works to ensure that model predictions satisfy various…
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February 4, 2022, Audio: "Host Ralph Ranalli is a senior writer and producer at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Office of Communications and…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
Empirical researchers and criminal justice practitioners have generally set aside history in exchange for behavioral models and…
“From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange &…
“When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his…