Racial health disparities in the United States
Disparities between Black and White Americans in health care coverage and health outcomes are pervasive in the United States.
Research
All-cause nursing home mortality rates have remained above pre-pandemic levels after accounting for decline in occupancy
During the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disproportionate share of COVID-19–related deaths occurred among nursing home residents.
What We Know about Our Schools
K–12 education and preschool policies and practices—the technology of human capital formation—have not escaped the ideological divide in America.
Human Rights Organizations and Shaming Tactics: Using Anti-Racist Cues to Hone the Messaging
Human Rights Organizations (HROs) often use a criticism tactic, known as shaming, to pressure foreign governments that commit human rights violations to stop their abuses.
Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector
Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials rele
Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century
In Global Health 2050, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health concludes that dramatic improvements in human welfare are achievable by mid-century with focused health investments.
Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor
Clinical prediction models (CPMs) are tools that compute the risk of an outcome given a set of patient characteristics and are routinely used to inform patients, guide treatment decision-making, and r
Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor
Clinical prediction models (CPMs) are tools that compute the risk of an outcome given a set of patient characteristics and are routinely used to inform patients, guide treatment decision-making, and r
AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in urban governance presents significant opportunities to transform decision-making and enhance accountability.
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy.
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