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Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children
…born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, MIT researcher David Autor found that, relative to their sisters, boys born to low-education and unmarried mothers, raised in low-income neighborhoods, and enrolled at…
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The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…
Op-Ed
Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake
…their own kids. About half of adults today witnessed a divorce or break-up in their own parents’ relationship. The Institute for Family Studies research fellows David and Amber Lapp have explained that “anxiety about…
Op-Ed
Systemic Disadvantage
…discrimination in employment and housing. Low-income whites share other social experiences more commonly associated with blacks and other racial minorities. David Lapp, co-founder of Braver Angels and research fellow at…
Op-Ed
Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?
…House was also interested in federal reforms, spurred in part by an influential 1983 study by Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood (both later welfare officials in the Clinton administration)…
Op-Ed
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…dawn of the Industrial Era, that the notions of potentiality and fulfillment took on an especially commercial hue. The Scottish philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith argued that it was…