Tag: Maya Sen

  • We begin with a typology of Americans’ understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and the other from technology optimism to technology pessimism.

  • Researchers have been thinking about race all wrong Vox 2014-12-15 JenĂ©e Desmond-Harris Studies on race are a dime a dozen: researchers examine its relationship to everything from elementary school test scores to who’s most likely to develop diabetes to which groups are overrepresented in ethnic militias to who Americans vote for, and we read about…

  • Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics Annual Review of Political Science Number 19 (2016) 2014-10-05 49 pages Maya Sen, Assistant Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor Department of Politics Princeton University Although understanding the role of race, ethnicity, and identity is central to…