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Center for the Study of Inequality
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Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) is devoted to understanding patterns, causes, and consequences of social and economic inequality. CSI fosters new and cutting-edge research, trains undergraduate and graduate students, encourages the exchange of ideas among inequality researchers, and disseminates research findings to a broader public. Since the program’s inception in 2003, over 750 undergraduates have earned the Minor in Inequality Studies. CSI is honored to receive a 10 million dollar grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to advance inequality research at Cornell University.
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WWKP Research in Action: WWKP Literature Review on Transgender Care Impacts National Policy Debate
(Cornell University, 2018)In April 2018, the What We Know Project at Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality rolled out the largest online comprehensive literature review to date on the efficacy of transition-related care for the transgender ... -
Criminalizing Immigrants: Border Controls, Enforcement, & Resistance
(2018)On November 9-10, 2017, CSI and the Cornell Population Center (CPC) brought together world-class social scientists, legal scholars, and local community organizers for a conference on the criminalization of immigration. At ... -
The Public’s Increasing Punitiveness and Its Influence on Mass Incarceration in the United States
(American Journal of Political Science, 2014)Following more than 30 years of rising incarceration rates, the United States now imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any country in the world. Building on theories of representation and organized interest ... -
Comment on ‘Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality’
(Brookings, 2015)Despite decades of widening income inequality in the United States, public demand for redistribution has remained flat and perhaps even declined. This result, which Vivekinan Ashok, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Ebonya Washington ... -
The Great Recession and State Criminal Justice Policy: Do Economic Hard Times Matter
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Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich
(Southern Political Science Association, 2014)This article develops and tests a model of conditional status quo bias and American inequality. We find that institutional features that bias policy outcomes toward the status quo have played a central role in the path of ... -
Feeding the pipeline: Gender, occupational plans, and college major selection
(Social Science Research, 2013-07)In this article, we analyze gender differences in college major selection for respondents to the Education Longitudinal Study (2002-2006), focusing on educational pathways through college that lead to science, engineering, ... -
Stutter-Step Models of Performance in School
(Social Forces, 2013)To evaluate a stutter-step model of academic performance in high school, this article adopts a unique measure of the beliefs of 12,591 high school sophomores from the Education Longitudinal Study, 2002-2006. Verbatim ... -
Occupational Plans, Beliefs about Educational Requirements, and Patterns of College Entry
(Sociology of Education, 2013)In this article, a measure of students’ beliefs is constructed from three sources of information on 12,509 high school seniors from the Education Longitudinal Study (2002 to 2006). First, verbatim responses to questions ... -
Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of US Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige
(Sociological Science, 2017-02-06)Women earn nearly half of doctoral degrees in research fields, yet doctoral education in the United States remains deeply segregated by gender. We argue that in addition to the oft-noted segregation of men and women by ...
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