Tag: Manduca

  • Nation & World

    Unpacking the power of poverty

    Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.

    5 minutes
    Professor Robert Sampson
  • Nation & World

    Cities’ wealth gap is growing, too

    Harvard research has found that separation between rich and poor communities has increased during the past 40 years.

    4 minutes
    Robert Manduca.
  • Nation & World

    Racial and economic disparities intertwined, study finds

    While African-Americans have moved to higher ranks on the income distribution scale in the decades since the Civil Rights Movement, those improvements have largely been blunted by rapid income growth for the richest members of society and income stagnation among lower- and middle-income families.

    5 minutes
    Robert Manduca