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Op-Ed
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…means roughly two-thirds of Americans are poor. It is…The Worst Poverty Analysis I Have Ever Seen. (And I’ve read Matthew Desmond!) Much of the essay involves other arguments about middle-class expenses, and…
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In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, And Women’s Well-Being
…Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, 2nd edition (Atria Books, 2025). 2 Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon, & Matthew A. Andersson, “Parenthood…
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Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…on Students’ Academic and Socioemotional Outcomes”; and Martha Abele Mac Iver and Matthew Messel, “The ABCs of Keeping on Track to Graduation: Research Findings from Baltimore,” Journal of Education for Students…
Op-Ed
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
…rich-get-richer; poor-get-poorer phenomenon often referred to as the “Matthew Effect.” Students who are below the decoding threshold stop growing in vocabulary, reading comprehension, and knowledge acquisition; those who are above…
Article
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…most thoughtful interpreters—like Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge, and Matthew Yglesias—of this ideological divide in the emotional well-being of young women have pointed to the role that “catastrophizing” thinking has played…
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America is Still Working
…using IPUMS microdata. (See Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Matthew Sobek, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Renae Rodgers, and Megan Schouweiler. IPUMS USA: Version 15.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN:…
Blog Post
The Overlooked Benefits of Work-from-Home Opportunities
…in popularity. This shift, while significant for all, holds particular promise for one demographic: moms. A recent study by Emma Harrington and Matthew E. Kahn delves into the benefits these opportunities can…
Op-Ed
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…there is one of the best things that America could be doing to counter global warming. One of us, Professor Glaeser, and a University of Southern California environmental economist, Matthew…
Book Review
Bad Hoosiers
…of the 1920s and those we are struggling with today. As Matthew Continetti noted last year in his magisterial review of American conservatism, American nativism is a recurring national phenomenon. Like the…
Blog Post
Does Money (and Economic Growth) Buy Happiness?
…US, well done. Time to dial things down. Less work, more leisure. But maybe not. A 2021 analysis by Matthew A. Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School,…
Op-Ed
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
On July 13, a group of journalists, policy wonks, and political activists opened a new front in the war for American conservatism. One-hundred-twenty-two signatories, led by Avik Roy of the…
Op-ed
Biden Tries to Revive His Eviction Moratorium Through the Back Door
…have not spiked. They have, to be sure, increased since the period of the federal ban. But even Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, whose founder, sociologist Matthew Desmond, has campaigned to…