A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
The revised edition of Danny Dorling’s book ‘Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists,’ provides an analysis of contemporary issues and practices underpinning inequality and a concise interpretation of the main causes of the persistence of injustice in rich countries, together with possible solutions.
The absolute difference between what someone else is getting compared to what you get matters less than how feel about any disparity, according to a review of ‘relative deprivation’ research in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences.’
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.
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.
While Latin America is taking in more tax revenue cumulatively than it did twenty years ago, the International Business Times […]
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..
I’m not a huge fan of the topic of racial and gender discrimination. The heated debates that go around it […]
In firms with more female managers, are newly created jobs more likely to be filled by men or by women? […]
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.
The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.
There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
