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How to Best Use Data to Meet Your DE&I Goals

From credit card interest rates to listing the calorie content on restaurant menus, data disclosure can be a powerful tool to change behavior.

Twenty Years After UNSCR 1325: Any Progress Ending Wartime Sexual Violence?

Civic Responses to Police Violence

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 civic engagement.

At War and at Home: The Consequences of US Women Combat Casualties

What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes toward (1) military conflict and (2) women’s equality.

How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace

Lynching and Local Justice

What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy?

The Massachusetts Bail Fund Is on the Right Side of the Law — and Justice

Detaining many to avoid the dangers posed by a few is not only inexcusably unjust, it actually increases the likelihood of the very dangers many fear.

Closed Minds? Is a ‘Cancel Culture’ Stifling Academic Freedom and Intellectual Debate in Political Science?

Synopsis: Recent years have seen extensive debate in popular commentary about a pervasive ‘cancel culture’ thought to be taking over college campuses.

Centering Human Subjects: The Ethics of “Desk Research” on Political Violence

Quantitative data about political violence are frequently based on “desk research,” data derived from secondary sources that do not require direct contact between researchers and participants, such as

The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students

Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States.