Michele Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men--the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society.
MANY Americans are skeptical about government spending on social programs, and they cite a litany of familiar reasons. But a growing body of research suggests that America’s antipathy toward big government has another, less-often-acknowledged underpinning: the nation’s racial and ethnic diversity.
Both family structure and the labor market are implicated in long-term childhood poverty. Changes in employment of family members and changes in family composition are each strongly associated with transitions into and out of childhood poverty. Of these, changes in employment are the most important.
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of racial and ethnic disparity in college attendance. Parental income in the child’s adolescent years is a strong predictor of this disparity. Using NLSY data, we find that it is the long‐run factors associated with parental background and family environment, and not credit constraints facing prospective students in the college‐going years, that account for most of the racial‐ethnic college‐going differential.
This analysis of the causes of racial and ethnic conflict in American cities between 1877-1914 presents evidence that suggests that the explanation for ethnic unrest is to be found in competition processes.
Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi, and other ‘world historians’,
the prosperous parts of Asia between 1500 and 1800 look similar to the
stagnating southern, central, and eastern parts of Europe rather than the
developing north-western parts.