We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
Nearly a quarter of 7th-12th-graders in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) attend one of three exam schools, considered among the highest…
Today in India, 67% percent of men own mobile phones, but only 33% percent of women do. South Asian countries in general are clear outliers…
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative.…
When deciding whether to provide job-matching assistance to formerly incarcerated job seekers, which factors do individuals with job…
Once again, the nation confronts a potential #MeToo moment, with accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against President Trump’s…
Cornell William Brooks is Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership…
We offer the first quantitative analysis of rape culture in the United States. Observers have long worried that biased news coverage of…