Inferring causation from non‐randomized studies of exposure requires that exposure groups
can be balanced with respect to prognostic factors for the outcome. Although there is broad …

A growing literature suggests that juvenile arrests perpetuate offending and increase the
likelihood of future arrests. The effect on subsequent arrests is generally regarded as a …

State governments have experimented with a variety of election laws to make voting more
convenient and increase turnout. The impacts of these reforms vary in surprising ways …

To enhance student success, many colleges and universities have expanded academic
support services and programmatic interventions. One popular measure that has been …

A recent wave of research suggests that teachers overrate the performance of girls relative
to boys and hold more positive attitudes toward girls' mathematics abilities. However, these …

Several recent academic studies explore the determinants of corporate tax avoidance, 1
while a subset of these studies examines whether management incentives help explain the …

We evaluate the role of a new type of democratic institution, participatory budgeting (PB), for
improving citizens' well-being. Participatory institutions are said to enhance governance …

Though sociologists have examined how mass incarceration affects stratification,
remarkably little is known about how it shapes educational disparities. Analyzing the Fragile …

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex and heritable eating disorder characterized by
dangerously low body weight. Neither candidate gene studies nor an initial genome-wide …

Im Zuge der Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention werden zunehmend
Bemühungen unternommen, Schülerinnen und Schüler mit sonderpädagogischem …