Reports Understanding the Effects of Windfalls: What People Do with Financial Payouts, and What It Means for Policy What happens when individuals receive infusions of money-large or small? This report by Cook Center… Prison Hospital Data Is Omitted From Federal Data Sets Given the evident impact on health and the historical inequities of the criminal legal system,… Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist W. H. Hutt and James M. Buchanan Summary In their stormy response to Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy in Chains, some academics on… Self-Reporting Race in Small Business Loans: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Evidence from PPP Loans in Durham, NC Racial self-identification, the process of identifying as belonging to one racial-ethnic group or another, can… Racial Disparities in Household Wealth Following the Great Recession Wealth inequality across racialized groups in the United States is immense, persistent, and well-documented. Being… A Fair Shake for Black Workers This report, published in the Winter 2021 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, explores… Oil and Blood: The Color of Wealth in Tulsa, Oklahoma Since 2015, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University has embarked… Still Running Up the Down Escalator: How Narratives Shape our Understanding of Racial Wealth Inequality “Still Running Up the Down Escalator: How Narratives Shape our Understanding of Racial Wealth Inequality,”… « Previous 1 2 3 4 … 7 Next » Load More