What we know about their labour market effects, with an analysis of data on 30 OECD countries over 45 years, write Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo.
All high-income countries, as well as several developing countries, have policies in place to make it easier for people to balance their working lives with their family commitments. These include parental leave, childcare support […]
In the past, concerns about inequality were tempered by the perception that people had a high degree of economic mobility. But how has intergenerational mobility changed in the US? In new research which uses census data on names and occupational income to examine social mobility between 1850 and 1940, Claudia Olivetti and Daniele Paserman find that intergenerational mobility was […]
Women who argue in front of the US Supreme Court win just as often as men – but it’s harder for them to get there.
Today’s voter suppression in the South can trace a line back to the Jim Crow laws and lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries
Streetcars and light rail services serve different rider markets in American cities.
Undocumented and unaccompanied Latino youth who are exposed to violence are more likely to turn to crime to overcome disadvantage.
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