Intersectional feminist scholars emphasize how overlapping systems of oppression structure gender inequality, but in focusing on the gendered, classed, and racialized bases of stratification, many often overlook disability as an important social category in determining economic outcomes. This is...

A financial crisis followed by a sustained period of economic crisis hit parts of the world in 2007/2008. It was not long before this crisis, spawned from spreadsheets and financial devices, landed with full force in the tangible world of health, housing, food, water, work, and other...

This project aims to provide a reading of the effects of the colonial partition, fragmentation, and the crisis of the current national project on the identity representations of Palestinian youth. It examines the generational and socioeconomic overlaps on the tribal, religious and national...

Bringing together classic defense of liberty and democracy, the political economy of hierarchy, endogenous growth theory, and the new institutional economics on growth, we propose a new institutional theory that identifies democracy's unique advantage in prompting economic growth. We contend...

We exploit a variation in organizational hierarchy induced by a reorganization plan implemented in roughly 2,000 bank branches in India, to investigate how organizational hierarchy affects the allocation of credit. We find that increased hierarchization of a branch induces credit rationing,...

In the 1950s, the United States and Soviet Union abandoned secrecy and began sharing nuclear technology internationally. Soon thereafter, the two superpowers worked together to create the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to place safeguards on nuclear assistance, and eventually added...