We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants in a lottery used by Pakistan to allocate Hajj visas.
We offer a dyadic perspective on gender and persistence in negotiation, focusing on the interactive effects of persister gender and naysayer gender.
Why do Arab states lag behind the rest of the world in gender equality? Social structural, cultural, and institutional accounts offer alternative perspectives.
Handbook of War Studies III is a follow-up to Handbook of War Studies I (1993) and II (2000).
The article discusses the need for positive attitudes toward diversity in education.
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam competition through which children compete for a large financial prize.
The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso.1 It focused on girls in particular and was implemented in 132 rural villages throughout the 10 province
What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their convic
For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of African Americans.
The article offers information relative to immigrant integration in the U.S.
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