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The Power of the Success Sequence
…(NLSY).1The success sequence seems like common sense. In an interview, Nobel Laureate James Heckman called the success sequence a fact, adding: “When children or young adults have a child out…
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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,…
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Religion’s Refusal to Die
…James Madison’s understanding of religion’s place, or lack thereof, in a political community. AEI’s Benjamin Storey and St. John’s College’s Michael Grenke considered the religious element of human nature through…
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Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…primary cause of low proficiency rates among black and Hispanic Americans. In 1966, sociologist James Coleman published a landmark 700-page study of educational opportunity known as the Coleman Report, which…
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The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
Those trying to ride a corporate unicorn to a major IPO should consider the lessons of their nineteenth-century forebears. On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New…
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Systemic Disadvantage
…pregnancy to criminal-justice involvement, children raised in single-parent homes are at much higher risk of negative life outcomes than those raised in two-parent families. According to Nobel laureate James Heckman…
Testimony
Work and Family: The Keys to Reducing Poverty
…produced by Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan, indicate that government programs substantially improve material well-being, especially for those who work.[2] In 2013, the poverty rate for female-headed families with children would…