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Latino Adolescents’ Experiences of Discrimination Across the First Two Years of High School
2011 study in Child Development on perceived discrimination among young Latinos and its outcomes in educational settings.
Who plays the lottery, and why: Research review
2012 review of the research literature on U.S. lotteries and the types of people most likely to play.
Local Political Knowledge and Assessments of Citizen Competence
2012 study in Public Opinion Quarterlyon citizen levels of local and national political knowledge, and evidence that citizens have more knowledge than scholars previously believed.
Beyond Guns and God: Understanding the Complexities of the White Working Class in America
2012 report from the Public Religion Research Institute on the cultural and political beliefs of white working-class Americans.
2012 report from Columbia University and Mathematica published in American Behavioral Scientist on behavioral challenges and kindergarten individual and classroom academic performance.
In post-recession America, poverty rate stays high: Research roundup
2012 examination of Census Bureau figures on poverty and aggregation of related resources for interpreting poverty data and policy.
Economic Burdens of Health Inequalities in the United States
2009 study from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland on racial disparities in U.S. health care.
U.S. Incarceration and Correctional Population Levels: U.S. Justice Department
2011 reports from the U.S. Department of Justice with census of imprisoned and paroled persons.
2011 study from Fordham Law School on the influences fueling prison population growth in the United States since 1980.
Religion, Race and Perceived Barriers to Marriage
2011 study in Sociology of Religion on levels of religiosity and perceived barriers to marriage.
Framing Labels and Immigration Policy Attitudes in the Iowa Caucuses
2010 study in Political Behavior on immigration rhetoric and policy preferences among Iowa caucus-goers.
Sex and Race: Are Black Candidates More Likely to be Disadvantaged by Sex Scandals?
2010 study in Political Behavior examines how voters respond to hypothetical sex scandals involving a white and black candidate.
United States Voting Law Changes in 2012
2011 article by the NYU Brennan Center for Justice on the potential impacts of voting-law changes on the 2012 election.
Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons
2011 study on higher education completion rates for black men and women between 1940 and 2000.
Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking up from the American Dream
2011 study from the Pew Charitable Trusts on factors that contribute to downward mobility in the United States and how they intersect with race and gender.
Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2011
2011 report by the Pew Hispanic Center on demographic trends relating to undocumented immigrants in the United States.
U.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 Report on Criminal Alien Statistics
2011 report from federal oversight agency on crimes and costs involving undocumented persons.
Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur: Explaining Sources of Genocide
2011 report in the British Journal of Sociology on underlying and environmental factors that fueled the mass killing in Darfur.
Study in Journal of Social Issues on differences in family priorities and learning outcomes for immigrant children
Politicized Places: When Immigrants Provoke Opposition
2011 study in American Political Science Review on the societal conditions that spur anti-immigrant sentiment.
