The decade of decline: Gender equity in high school sports
2012 report from a University of Michigan-affiliated policy center that examines how laws promoting women’s opportunities in sports are being adopted.
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topics of race and gender
2012 report from a University of Michigan-affiliated policy center that examines how laws promoting women’s opportunities in sports are being adopted.
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2012 paper from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and Harvard University on defendant race and unequal sentencing decisions.
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2011 study in Political Behavior showing how minorities frequently receive less in-person contacts, and how this explains different voter participation rates.
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2012 report from the U.S. Census Bureau providing a picture of how demographic on race and ethnicity are shifting across the United States.
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2012 study in Public Opinion Quarterly on evidence that citizens have more knowledge of local and national politics than scholars previously believed.
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2012 study from the University of Southern California and University of Texas on peer influence and teenage smoking habits among Hispanic high school students.
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2012 study from Harvard and Yale in PLoS One on the increase in stress-related cardiovascular problems related to women’s workplace environment.
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2010 study in The Sociological Quarterly on how work environments and social policies may impact the gender wage gap.
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2012 report in American Behavioral Scientist on behavioral challenges and kindergarten individual and classroom academic performance.
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2010 study from Cornell and Mississippi State on how Latinos are more segregated in new destination places, particularly in the suburbs and rural areas.
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