Social cognitions could play an important role in violence and may be modifiable through intervention.

Price increases over the past decade are primarily attributable to increasing markups, not increasing production costs. Limited competition, in turn, is consistent with patterns generated by fixed costs of entry, but not broad construction-sector fixed costs.

Contrary to leading desistance theories that emphasize individual readiness, opportunity, and prosocial bonds, this study underscores how group structures critically shape pathways out of crime.

Students facing poverty and instability anticipate a low probability of completing longer educational programs and thus rationally choose shorter, more achievable alternatives.

Different varieties of abundance will become more defined as abundance becomes a larger part of our political discourse in the next few years.

It is important to incorporate considerations of various policy instruments that may influence housing supply and affordability.

The unequal psychological burden of fear, shaped by an individual’s perception of their risk of victimization, may drive social isolation and the observed negative effects.

Counties that promote upward mobility also promote repayment and expand credit access, suggesting that common place-level factors may drive behaviors in both credit and labor markets…. We conclude that gaps in credit access by race, class, and hometown have roots in childhood environments.

A new HOPE probationer is more likely to experience a court hearing and jail than an otherwise similar probationer not assigned to HOPE. The deterrent effect is so significant, however, that after the initial month or two, a HOPE probationer requires less effort to supervise than a non-HOPE probationer.