In the United States, awareness is increasing that medical care alone cannot adequately
improve health overall or reduce health disparities without also addressing where and how …

Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social
domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the …

In this paper, we examine when members of underrepresented groups choose to support
each other, using the context of the funding of female founders via donation-based …

Theory suggests that neighborhood effects depend not only on where individuals live today,
but also on where they lived in the past. Previous research, however, usually measures …

The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more
evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of …

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great,
unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the …

Gender is both an archetypal and adaptive dimension of the urban condition and, thus,
remains a key moving target for planning practitioners and scholars alike. This is especially …

This article investigates how experiences with public policies affect levels of civic and
political engagement among the poor. Studies of “policy feedback” investigate policies not …

It is common for scholars interested in race and poverty to invoke a lack of access to job
networks as one of the reasons that African Americans and Hispanics face difficulties in the …

With few exceptions, studies have conceived of the glass ceiling as reflecting internal
promotion biases. In this article, the authors argue that glass ceiling patterns can also be the …