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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. ...
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 ...
Association between Income and the Hippocampus
(Public Library of Science, 2011)
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 brain and behavioral ...
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012-05-08)
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of ...
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 ...
International Affairs and the Public Sphere
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. There is today no shortage of global problems that social scientists should study in depth: ethnic and ...
Prison Exit Samples as a Source for Indicators of Pretrial Detention
(Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011)
Many governments, civil society organizations, and international development agencies today seek to limit the use of pretrial detention in criminal justice. Motivations vary. Some believe that pretrial detention is ordered ...
Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal reimbursement. We contrast the effects of two reforms for home ...
The Obama Administration's Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
"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 ...