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How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation? Our book, Deep Roots (Acharya, Blackwell and Sen, 2018), tackled this…
Vol. 3, Issue 3, Pages 24-31
Mark Warren grew up in a family that taught him a lot of lessons. In my third interview with Warren, as I probed for details of his life, he told me that his mother had been…
Vol. 334, Pages 43-49
Background
We aimed to characterize the prevalence of social disconnection and thoughts of suicide among older adults in the United States, and examine the association between…
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-020
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship from intolerant zealots involving ‘woke…
July 6, 2023, Paper: "In 2019, Joyce Craig, the newly elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, was …
How public, for-profit, and civic organizations working to address the same city-wide social challenge can find a common starting point.
Industrial policy has for a long time raised difficult questions for policymakers to unpick. What justifications are there for government intervention in market mechanisms, and…
Vol. 24, Issue 2, Pages 79-94
Two-stage examinations consist of a first stage in which students work individually as they typically do in examinations (stage 1), followed by a second stage in which they work…
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-018
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct…
Two of the most significant concerns about the contemporary United States are the erosion of democratic institutions and the increase in rates of depression. The researchers…