Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many st...

Concerns about the welfare of young adults have received increasing public attention. Numerous ma...

Crossing the Border

The sweeping political and economic changes of the past decade--including the spread of democracy...

Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have made the American marketplace increasi...

This noteworthy book documents how a broad range of communities--residential, occupational, ethni...

Altruism, Morality, and Economic Theory

Access to credit is an important means of providing people with the opportunity to make a better ...

With the introduction of more aggressive policing, prosecution, and sentencing since the late 197...

In the twentieth century, the United States ended some of its most flagrant inequalities. The 'ri...

Legitimacy of Philanthropic Foundations: United States and European Perspectives

Liberal democracies are based on principles of inclusion and tolerance. But how does the principl...

The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under e...

Promotion of Social Awareness: Powerful Lessons for the Partnership of Developmental Theory and

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Financial Reform: Preventing the...

The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, ...

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Using Administrative Data for Sc...

As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever ...

Winner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Sect...

Harriet Presser shows that nonstandard works schedules are both highly prevalent among American f...

Focusing on issues of particular importance to black people, and confronting the rich variety and...

Scientific progress often begins with the difficult task of preparing informed, conclusive review...

While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains ...

One of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Books of 1999 Accepted wisdom about the opportuniti...

The United States is an immigrant nation--nowhere is the truth of this statement more evident tha...

Anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fever pitch after 9 11, but its origins go back much further. ...

Every day, it seems, we become aware of some new technological or chemical hazard. Yet it is also...

How to House the Homeless

Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy

The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood

Americans like to believe that theirs is the land of opportunity, but the hard facts are that chi...

The 9 11 terrorist attacks opened America's eyes to a frightening world of enemies surrounding us...

College campuses provide ideal natural settings for studying diversity: they allow us to see what...

Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace

After Admission: From College Access to College Success

Ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing pub...

Today, a college education is increasingly viewed as the gateway to the American Dream--a necessa...

Remaking America

West Indian immigrants to the United States fare better than native-born African Americans on a w...

An insightful chronicle of the changing public health demands in New York City. The first permane...

Original published in a slightly different form in 2008.

During his winning presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to counter rising economic inequa...

Life is unpredictable. Control over one's time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredicta...

In 1978, determined to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs, Congress overwhelmi...

Leon Festinger's forty-year scrutiny of that 'curious animal, the modern human being' fundamental...

Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign exposed many white Americans more than ever before to a bla...

The number of elderly and disabled adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities is ex...

Chicago has long struggled with racial residential segregation, high rates of poverty, and deepen...