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Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging?

Neoliberal Social Justice: From Ed Brooke to Barack Obama

When news broke that President Barack Obama would be receiving a $400,000 check for delivering a speech in September at a corporate healthcare conference, it provoked a public uproar, coming a few mon

More School or More Learning? Evidence from Learning Profiles from the Financial Inclusion Insights Data

We use a unique set of nationally representative data of adults from ten developing countries and a unique measure of literacy - a direct assessment of reading - to examine the link between targets fo

Career Dynamics and Gender Gaps among Employees in the Microfinance Sector

While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relatio

Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs

Several field experiments find positive returns to grants for male and not female microentrepreneurs.

Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals

Using the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data on the ability of women at various levels of schooling attainment on the ability of women at various levels of schooling attainment to read a simple

Women at the Top: The Pipeline as Pipe Dream

The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere”

Nancy Fraser’s path-breaking “Rethinking the Public Sphere” brought the term “subaltern counterpublics” into critical theoretical discourse.

New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member

We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures.

Barbershops and Preventative Health: A Case of Embedded Education

This is a case study of the Colorado Black Health Collaborative (CBHC) Barbershop/Salon Health Outreach Program, a community-based initiative that targeted disproportionate rates of hypertension and o