How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on whether they are…
We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on whether they are…
November 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at…
November 17, 2022, Audio: "There seemed to be a troubling economic trend in 2020. A mass exodus of women from the work force. Economic…
Paid sick leave helps workers recover from illness and manage care obligations and protects public health. Yet access to paid sick leave…
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…