A Candid Conversation about Schools, Culture, and the Widening Opportunity Gap in America with Professor Robert D. Putnam
An interview with Professor Robert D. Putnam about his new book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."
Research
Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co- Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities
Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods.
The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood.
Cashless Society
From the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, a number of developments turned out to have profound effects on destitute families in the United States, which Kathryn J. Edin and H.
London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the City of London and its hinterlands.
Does Public Sector Control Reduce Variance in School Quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality?
Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.
A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics
This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers, street vendors, waste pickers and domestic workers.
New Perspectives on the Declining Significance of Race: A Rejoinder
In sharp contrast to many earlier studies, the articles in this symposium encompass a careful discussion of the two major underlying themes of my book,The Declining Significance of Race: (1) the effec
Did We Lose the War on Poverty?—II
Although an accurate estimate of how the poverty rate has changed since 1964 would show that we are much closer to achieving President Lyndon Johnson’s original goal of eliminating poverty than most r
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