The study “Redistribution Through Markets” was recently published in the journal Econometrica. This research reveals that free markets are optimal under some circumstances – but at other times price controls can be a better solution, especially when …
In 1975 Northwestern founded the Women’s Studies Program. This program was in response to questions pertaining to the tenure of female professors, comparison of salaries between male and female professors, and how to best support graduate students who still wanted …
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership …
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership …
Department of History Professor Geraldo Cadava discusses his book, The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump (Ecco, May 2020) in the Northwestern Now story: ‘Latinos aren’t naturally liberal or conservative’
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According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, there has been a statistically larger amount of Latinx and African American Chicago residents who have contracted or died from COVID-19 than white residents.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made a point …
The study, “A Penny on the Dollar: Racial Inequalities in Wealth Among Households with Children,” by Professor Christine Percheski of the Department of Sociology and Christina Gibson-Davis of Duke University, was published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World…
Professor James Druckman conducted a survey through Northwestern in conjunction with Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers in determining the Americans’ trust in governmental institutions such as the police. This survey was administered before and after the emergence of protests against police …
The study “Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets: A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976-2016” examined how discrimination in housing and mortgage lending against blacks, Latinos and Asians has changed over the last 40 years by performing …
Sociology Professor Lincoln Quillian conducted a study on racial discrimination of labor markets in various countries. In the nine countries Quillian and his colleagues examined, they found evidence of hiring discrimination against non-white populations. The study, published in the journal …