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May 14, 2025
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…
March 28, 2025
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…
February 18, 2025
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…
September 10, 2024
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:…
April 22, 2024
The Promise and Peril of Civic Renewal: Richard John Neuhaus, Peter L. Berger, and “To Empower People”
On April 22, AEI and the Ethics & Public Policy Center hosted a discussion on the legacy of Richard John Neuhaus and Peter L. Berger’s 1977 book, To Empower People:…
February 22, 2024
Education and the Right
…how conservatives have interacted with educational institutions. AEI’s Matthew Continetti and Ramesh Ponnuru—drawing on their expertise in conservative history and policy—discussed the implications of the right’s growing power in education…
February 16, 2024
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…
January 2, 2024
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…
August 8, 2023
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…
August 3, 2023
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,…