Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961–1999
Most Americans endorse the ideal of equal opportunity, and many interpret this ideal as requiring that children from different backgrounds have an equal chance of achieving economic success.
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Saving the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st Century America
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape calls for a new look at spatially targeted policies.
Exponential Innovation and Human Rights: Implications for Science and Technology Diplomacy
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options for improving its well-being.
Cities on a Hill?
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of policy innovation and democratic deepening.
African Regional Economic Integration: The Emergence, Evolution, and Impact of Institutional Innovation
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon.
Restoring the American Dream: What Would It Take to Dramatically Increase Mobility from Poverty?
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty was tasked with answering one big, bold question: What W
Lessons from Immigration Economics
Like trade, immigration produces both winners and losers.
Teacher Math Anxiety Relates to Adolescent Students' Math Achievement
Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement.
Socioeconomic Background and Commercial Health Plan Spending
Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who vary in expected cost, but including information about enroll
Why Sociologists Matter in the Welfare Reform Debate
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible poor families with children, began to erode (Teles 1996).
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