Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

We review economics research regarding the effect of police, punishments, and work on
crime, with a particular focus on papers from the last twenty years. Evidence in favor of …

" We used to think that if we improved policing we could escape its violence," Rachel
Herzing began. 1 It was November 2014, the fall that Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown …

Using a unique historical dataset for 20 OECD economies from 1870 to 2014, we study
whether human capital accumulation is associated with improvements in environmental …

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very
narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive …

While the robust and positive relationship between education and political engagement has
been widely documented, the direct causal link is still a subject of debate. This study …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in US cities. We report results from
a randomized controlled trial (N= 2,456) of a community-researcher partnership called the …

Abstract Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This
article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and …

This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that
educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of …