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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,…
Blog Post
Social Capital: What Is It?
Words and phrases, as they say, can do a lot of work. Sometimes, evocative terms can be useful even if they paper over imprecise concepts or obscure definitional disagreement. But…
Blog Post
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
“Social capital” is an esoteric and often loosely defined concept, yet it captures a deep-seated intuition and shared sensibility among virtually all Americans: Our relationships have value, and what we…
Book
A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the Root Causes of Poverty
Few conservative domestic policy achievements over the past 40 years have been as important as the welfare reforms of the 1990s. These reforms initially comprised innovative state experiments authorized by…
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Bringing Home the Bacon: Have Trends in Men’s Pay Weakened the Traditional Family?
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Working Paper
Was Rising Inequality Behind Falling Absolute Mobility? Reassessing Chetty et al. (2017)
In 2017, a widely publicized paper by a research team led by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that while the vast majority of American kids born in 1940 ended up…
Multimedia
Child Poverty: Trends and Outlook
…Center. The panelists were Dana Thomson of Child Trends, Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center; Stephen Nuñez of the Jain Family Institute, and Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute….
Op-Ed
Second Time’s the Charm?
…a lot of conservatives clarify our priorities, goals, and arguments. The two of us were on opposite sides of the Romney proposal — Winship in opposition and Levin in support. Everyone involved supported…
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…
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Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
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