India has long been an enduring puzzle in the literature on democracy and development. Even with its high levels of poverty and deeply multi-ethnic society, …
A growing literature on citizenship and legality argues there is a link between exclusionary immigration policies, legal status assignment, and stratification in the United States. …
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
Abstract of Determinants of Climate-Smart Agriculture: What’s the role of Gender, by Quinn Bernier, (AM)., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis explores the role that …
As cities across the Global South continue to urbanize, developing the state capacity necessary to provide basic services and infrastructure to growing urban populations has …
My research addresses the fundamental question of why certain socio-economic development projects take hold in a given context among competing alternatives. The dissertation investigates the …
In a time when baccalaureate aspirations are ubiquitous and students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds are enrolling in college at higher rates, the shifting …
Residential segregation researchers have used cities, census tracts, or census blocks to study the phenomenon contemporarily. More recently, researchers have applied such methods to historical …
In recent years, social norms have attracted increasing notice in the policy realm, particularly in the field of international development. Surprisingly, given a long history …
This paper investigates the question of how current economic models driving policies perpetuate inequality. I analyze three policies that I use as case studies: taxation, …
Children in developing countries face a myriad of hardships including poverty, household economic shocks, and high disease burden. These adverse conditions curtail children’s human capital …