Pandemic-related school closures are deepening educational inequality in the United States by severely impairing the academic progress of children from low-income neighborhoods while having no significantly detrimental effects on students from the county’...
United Nations consultant, algorithmic stock trader, chief economist of the Office of Management and Budget, Marxist theorist. These are just some of the jobs held by the alumni of the Country Studies program, the flagship research agenda of Yale’s...
The 2011 Arab Spring set both Tunisia and Egypt on a course toward democratization, but their trajectories soon diverged.
Tunisian political elites have since cooperated in passing a constitution, holding elections, and executing a successful transfer of...
In recent days, The New York Times published numerous opinion pieces by Yale historians and political scientists. Find them here:
Yale’s Timothy Snyder: American political atrocity and the future
“A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump,...
The perception that the U.S. government distributes money unfairly across racial lines is a major driver of public opposition to federal spending, argues a new study co-authored by Yale political scientist Kelly Rader.
Using original survey data, the...
In today’s economy, American businesses often tap into professional management to grow. But most firms in India and other developing countries are family owned and often shun hiring non-relatives to manage their companies. A new study co-authored by Yale...
A 2016 article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Yale economists Zack Cooper and Fiona Scott Morton exposed a pricey national problem: surprise medical bills.
In a study of 2.2 million emergency room visits across the United States, they found...