Today, only half of children grow up to earn more than their parents, as opportunities for upward mobility continue to decline. Meanwhile, more than…

Children who grow up in urban counties with high upward mobility exhibit fewer behavioral problems and perform better on cognitive tests, according…

Exposure to lead in the preschool years significantly increases the chance that children will be suspended or incarcerated during their school…

Would you rather receive $100 today or $125 in three months? Recent studies show those at the lowest income levels typically choose the $100 now,…

Princeton University’s fall break offers students a week away from the classroom, and Woodrow Wilson School graduate students enrolled in a policy…

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to…

Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past 15 years,…

Resolving epidemics like the Ebola crisis requires a multidisciplinary approach –involving not only public health and medical knowledge but an…

Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, share more than being the sites of racial strife over the past year. Both are part of metropolitan areas…

Fatima went into labor with her first child at the age of 16. As is custom in her nomadic community in western Sudan, she planned to deliver the baby…

Sub-Saharan Africans rate their health and health-care systems among the lowest in the world, according to a new report published by Princeton…