Fall 2016

Anna Aizer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Brown University. Joint with Janet Currie, Princeton University, and Joseph Doyle, MIT Sloan. Using individually linked data for RI children born between 1990 and 2004 that includes early childhood...

Ben W. Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Co-authored by Johannes Lindvall, Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Scholar (2016-2017), Minda de Gunzburg Center...

Joseph G. Altonji, Thomas Dewitt Cuyler Professor of Economics, Yale University. We extend the control function approach introduced by Altonji and Mansfield (2016) for bounding the variance of group treatment effects by 1) introducing complementarities...

Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University. The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of the landmark text Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by...

Evelyn Z. Brodkin , Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, we confront difficult questions about what disrupted the previous political order, why, and what happens...

Linda M. Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Social Sciences, Duke University. Using longitudinal ethnography and neuroscience approaches, I interrogate the relationship between everyday and critical-event based trauma and brain...

Derek A. Neal, Professor of Economics and Committee on Education, University of Chicago During most of the 20th century, blacks made steady progress relative to whites in the US. However, black labor market outcomes are not much better now, relative to...

Olav Sorenson, Frederick Frank '54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management, Yale School of Management. We analyze Danish registry data from 1991 to 2006 to determine how firm age and size influence wages. Unadjusted statistics suggest that smaller...

Daniel Tichenor, Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon. During this toxic election season, undocumented immigrants have loomed large as scapegoats and...

Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University. I consider Martin Luther King Jr.’s account of the injustices ghettos represent. In particular, I highlight the strengths and limits...