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…
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on whether they are…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
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…
International Equal Pay Day highlights the global efforts to achieve equal pay for work of equal value. Despite progress made to close the…
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion. The…
Recent world events, such as the rise of hypermasculine authoritarian leaders, have shown the importance of both sex and gender for…