Inequality

All That Glitters is Not Gold: Pay Inequality in Hollywood
Business and Management INK
March 21, 2016

All That Glitters is Not Gold: Pay Inequality in Hollywood

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University Amenities and University Food Banks
Higher Education Reform
February 1, 2016

University Amenities and University Food Banks

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Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists
Bookshelf
September 22, 2015

Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists

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Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps
PIBBS
September 8, 2015

Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps

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It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility

It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility

Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.

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Social Work’s Ambitious Agenda for Promoting Equality

Social Work’s Ambitious Agenda for Promoting Equality

Seeing a world awash in inequality, three global bodies representing social workers and their educators have united to put addressing these problems on the planet’s front burner.

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Public Finance Review’s Special Issue: Analyzing the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Latin America

Public Finance Review’s Special Issue: Analyzing the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Latin America

While Latin America is taking in more tax revenue cumulatively than it did twenty years ago, the International Business Times reported in […]

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Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality

Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality

Angus Deaton is a social scientist and the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. His Princeton colleague, the philosopher Peter Singer, argues that aid is vital to combat the terrible mortality rates in some countries. Angus Deaton disagrees..

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The effect of reverse discrimination on the young

The effect of reverse discrimination on the young

I’m not a huge fan of the topic of racial and gender discrimination. The heated debates that go around it have always […]

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Whose Jobs Are These?

Whose Jobs Are These?

In firms with more female managers, are newly created jobs more likely to be filled by men or by women? Lisa E. […]

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‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

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The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

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