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Association between Income and the Hippocampus

Facets of the post-natal environment including the type and complexity of environmental stimuli, the quality of parenting behaviors, and the amount and type of stress experienced by a child affects br

Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory Challenges

This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers.

The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised

I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978.

Poverty and Program Participation among Immigrant Children

Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in t

Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces

Social Conscience and Politics in the United States of America: Reflections

This article argues that the United States of America is quite different from other OECD countries in its religiosity (America is much more religious) and also in its public safety nets, which are con

Understanding the Emergence and Persistence of Concentrated Urban Poverty

Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume.

Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families

High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and family relationships.

Obama's Joblessness Dilemma: Fighting Minority Unemployment is Good Economics but Tough Politics

The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen significantly, but long-term joblessness has increased as well.

Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed between 22 and 85 years.