The literature on assignment mechanisms largely focuses on efficiency based on agents' preferences, though policymakers may prioritize different goals. In assigning teachers to classrooms, a school district might prioritize student learning but must also consider teacher welfare. This paper...

The literature on assignment mechanisms largely focuses on efficiency based on agents' preferences, though policymakers may prioritize different goals. In assigning teachers to classrooms, a school district might prioritize student learning but must also consider teacher welfare. This paper...

The literature on assignment mechanisms largely focuses on efficiency basedon agents' preferences, though policymakers may prioritize different goals. In assigning teachers to classrooms, a school district might prioritize student learning but must also consider teacher welfare. This paper...

"Private restrictions on racial occupancy are a critical element and episode in the history of American inequality. This study draws on newly available full count (parcel-level) data on racial restriction for five Midwestern counties. The research makes four important and overlapping...

"Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks...

""Running his fingers along the top of his old mining helmet, 93 year old Charles glanced with a measured gaze. Sixty years ago the last underground iron mine in the Lake Superior region closed and he lost the only job that he, his father, and his grandfather had ever known. Charles watched...

Lead Ore and Surveying le Pays des Illinois -- Early Mining and Smelting in North America -- Tracing Eighty Years of Early Mining Associations -- Early Mineralogical Assessments and Emerging Science -- Unhealthy Spaces Fitted Up with Furnaces.

R. Douglas Hurt recounts the settlement of the U.S. Midwest between 1815 and the turn of the twentieth century, arguing that this region proved to be the country s garden spot of the country and the nation s heart of agricultural production

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...