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June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
…new report from an intellectually diverse group of scholars at the University of Virginia, the American Enterprise Institute, the American Institute for Boys and Men, the Brookings Institution, the National…
March 13, 2025
Trends in Net College Tuition and Financial Aid, 1990–2020
…the amount of tuition and required fees that students pay out of their own wallets, after all grants and scholarships are applied. By contrast, institutions’ net tuition is the amount of tuition…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…plenty of policies to make America more family friendly. In this compilation, various AEI scholars offer a small sampling of such policies. AEI, of course, does not take institutional positions,…
January 10, 2025
Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution
…than ever for the well-being of children and adults, at least on some outcomes. Scholars, journalists, professionals, and policymakers should not only take note of marriage’s rising value, but they…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…an unfortunate thing happened during this long overdue reckoning. Out of the growing recognition it had been ignoring or excluding so many people, our national story was disassembled. Scholars focused…
June 29, 2023
Investing in Ideas, Influencing Policy: A Guide to Think Tank Effectiveness
…think tanks seeking impact must maintain public communication arms and public-facing scholars. Seizing the moment: Understanding when a window of policy opportunity has opened—whether for new or older findings—and acting…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
Introduction The “Success Sequence,” a formula to help young adults succeed in America, has been discussed widely in recent years, including by Brookings Institution scholars Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill….
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…have long been seen as nearly synonymous.”[25] Sociologists and scholars of religion later quantified this observation, examining the degree to which members of different religious traditions participated in community life….
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
Editor’s Note: The following chapters are AEI scholars’ contributions to a report from Opportunity America’s working group on K-12 education. The toll of the pandemic years is becoming clearer every…