Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class"
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Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces
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Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in ... -
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 ... -
Dopamine and Risk Choices in Different Domains: Findings Among Series Tournament Bridge Players
(2010)Individuals differ significantly in their willingness to take risks, partly due to genetic differences. We explore how risk taking behavior correlates with different versions of the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4). We ... -
Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Data on 2,288 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are deployed to study how off-farm female employment affects fertility. Such employment reduces a married woman’s actual number of children by ... -
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 Rejoinder
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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 ... -
Reflections on a Sociological Career that Integrates Social Science with Social Policy
(Annual Reviews, 2011)This autobiographical essay reflects on my sociological career, highlighting the integration of sociology with social policy. I discuss the personal, social, and intellectual experiences, ranging from childhood to adult ... -
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, ... -
Social Class and (Un)ethical Behavior: Evidence from a Large Population Sample
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)We test whether and how membership in the upper class affects ethical behavior in a large representative population sample. Using objective measures of socioeconomic status to define class, we find no evidence of a general ... -
Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of African Americans. The position that one takes often reflects ideological bias. ... -
"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 ...