This past week the NAACP, the National Urban League and other civil-rights groups collectively condemned charter schools. Claiming to speak…
“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America. Ricardo Hausmann, July 2010, Paper. "In…
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has…
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…
A mass Atrocity Response Operation (MARO) describes a contingency operation to halt the widespread and systematic use of violence by state…
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India, Rohini Pande, May…