We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven
increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 …

This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-
term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are …

This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale, restricted
administrative data. Using the county roll-out of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and age …

We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001
to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's …

Despite substantial evidence that resources and outcomes are transmitted across
generations, there has been limited inquiry into the extent to which antipoverty programs …

This paper estimates the effect of Head Start on health, education, and labor market
outcomes observed through age 48. I combine outcome data from the NLSY79 with archival …

In 2019, the landlord of Atlantic Plaza Towers in Brooklyn, New York, told its tenants that
their keys would be replaced with facial recognition technology (FRT). 1 Going forward, they …

11. The social psychologist Marie Jahoda (1907–2001) also argued that there was already
enough evidence linking deprivation to mental illness and that, rather than attempting “to …

In the 1960s, two landmark statutes—the Equal Pay and Civil Rights Acts—targeted the long-
standing practice of employment discrimination against US women. For the next 15 years …

A central concern for racial and ethnic minorities is having an equal opportunity to advance
group interests via the political process. There remains limited empirical evidence, however …