On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC, Professor Burns lauds…
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men…
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We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program…
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do…
A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.
In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity to obtain the…
Thirty years ago, I was a young woman living and working in London. In those days, Britain was a class-bound and male-dominated society,…
The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving students in the U.S. do not even apply to any selective colleges, in spite of the fact that…