Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and…
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the…
Income inequality in college attendance and graduation in the United States was troublingly large before the pandemic. Without an aggressive infusion of federal support for…
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The Know-Nothing Party gained control of a…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We estimate the causal impact
of these events on…
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious and polarized. This precarity is…
The Bay Area is a place of opportunity, but also a place of incredible inequality and deprivation. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was being described as a “great equalizer…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made plain just how important the work of retail, grocery and food service workers is. Their jobs put them at greater risk now, but those same jobs were…
