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Should the government promote marriages among the disadvantaged?
Perhaps the most socially divisive question in post welfare reform America has been whether the federal government should encourage unmarried parents to wed. The Bush administration plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into its Healthy Marriage Initiative, a program that … Continue reading
Does College Make You Liberal?
“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob… There are good decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren’t taught … Continue reading
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Tagged education, political attitudes, politics of inequality, public opinion
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Health Behaviors Do Not Explain the Growing Education-Mortality Gradient
The gap in premature mortality between high and low educated people in the United States has grown considerably over the last few decades, even as life expectancy has increased overall. A common explanation is the changing distribution of risk factors: … Continue reading
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Tagged disparities, education, health, social determinants of health
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New York City Wants to Solve Poverty, Will it Work?
Anti-poverty successes are celebrated nationally, but how quickly we forget the failures. Does anybody remember the New York City conditional cash transfer program for poor families, Opportunity NYC? The program, which supporters hoped would help to change the behaviors of … Continue reading
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Tagged conditional cash transfers, education, employment, experiments, health, poverty
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Who Learns in the Summer?
When you’re a kid, nothing beats the delirious excitement of summer vacation. After the final school bell rings in mid June, or thereabout, millions of American schoolchildren trade the books and stuffy classrooms for lounging around the house and the … Continue reading
After the Smoke Clears: Rebuilding North Africa and the Middle East
In the last month it’s been impossible to not get swept up in the euphoria of the Jasmine Revolution and the liberation of Egypt and Tunisia. With the situation taking a grim turn in neighboring Libya and in Yemen, however, … Continue reading
The right protest for the wrong reasons
Having previously kept quiet about the sharp rise in student fees in England, I finally cracked and wrote this post over at the Sociological Imagination. In short: I think the student march was the right protest for the wrong reasons
Inequalities round-up: Jan 2011
In-between a series of longer and more provocative articles, we can just about squeeze in the (roughly monthly) round-up of the latest inequalities research. This edition: how people inherit jobs as well as money; the legacy of Black-White wealth disparities; … Continue reading
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Tagged cross-national research, education, income dispersion, political attitudes, politics of inequality, race
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Thank Your Kindergarten Teacher for Your Next Pay Raise
Although motivated parents jockey to get their children into the classes with well-regarded teachers, and many education policy researchers staunchly defend the importance of high-quality teachers for student outcomes, finding evidence that quality teachers make much of a difference to … Continue reading
