The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
Postdoctoral Associate Xiongfei Lei presented his paper titled “The Unintended Impacts of the One-child Policy Relaxation in China on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes” at the Chinese Economist Society’s (CRS) North America Annual Conference at Bucknell University on March 31, 2024. Dr. Xiongfei Lei’s research focuses on the intersection between inequality and the labor market, especially in…
Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, is helping to lead DukeLine, an anonymous text line for Duke students who need support and advice in scenarios when in-person therapy isn’t an option. Read the full article by The Chronicle here.
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, was a featured speaker at the Freedom to Learn/Right to Learn Strategic Convening hosted by the African American Policy Forum at Columbia Law School on March 22, 2024. Dr. MacLean’s research focuses on race, gender, labor history…
Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the Richard Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care this Friday. The event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture, titled Black Women’s Religion and Their Health: When Individual and Institutional Factors Intersect, represents…
On November 10th, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, visited the Yale Center on Public Theology & Public Policy to speak on a panel, “Theology and Resistance: What History Teaches Us”. She joined Bishop William Barber II and legal scholar John Witt to discuss…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr.’s work on reparations was highlighted in Capital B story about the possibility of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to successfully purse reparations in New York City. Dr. Darity’s says that closing the racial wealth gap is the best measure for reparations. He estimates that New York would have to pay…
