Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define.…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
The American woman suffrage movement remade the U.S. Constitution and effected the broadest expansion of voting eligibility in the nation's…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
Like trade, immigration produces both winners and losers. It may be more useful, therefore, to think of immigration not in terms of…
Fifty years ago the nation confronted a historical choice, but did not act. In 1968 a special commission — established by President Lyndon…