Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Inequality"
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Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces
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The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011)I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978. Given the furor and controversy over the book immediately following its publication, I did not ... -
Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?
(2009)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 for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage ... -
Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care
(American Public Health Association, 2010)BACKGROUND: Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of ... -
More Than Just Race: A Response to William Darity, Jr. and Mark Gould
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)I welcome the opportunity to respond to two extensive and provocative review essays of my book, More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. An author seldom gets the chance to reply to reviews in the same ... -
The Obama Administration's Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty
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The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his controversial review of books by Elijah Anderson, Mitchell Duneier, and Katherine Newman ... -
“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them. First, skilled women are less likely to be married than unskilled women. Second, ... -
Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)Low college enrollment rates among low-income students may stem from a combination of credit constraints, low academic skill, and low-quality schools. Recent Massachusetts data allow the first use of school district fixed ... -
Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World
(School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to social investment, poverty alleviation, and equity. In consequence, research and ... -
The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Left- and right-handed individuals have different brain structures, particularly in relation to language processing. Using five data sets from the US and UK, I show that poor infant health increases the likelihood of a ... -
"Way Down in the Hole": Systemic Urban Inequality and The Wire
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)The Wire is set in a modern American city shaped by economic restructuring and fundamental demographic change that led to widespread job loss and the depopulation of inner-city neighborhoods. While the series can be viewed ... -
Why do Arab States Lag the World in Gender Equality?
(2009)Why do Arab states lag behind the rest of the world in gender equality? Social structural, cultural, and institutional accounts offer alternative perspectives. This study critiques the ‘petroleum patriarchy’ thesis, presented ...