![A group of children in uniform reading from small red books](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AR-nation-building-thumb-760x570.jpg)
Why Some Dictators Build Schools — and Others Don’t
Compulsory education ‘homogenizes’ population, can stave off democracy
![Three modern apartment buildings and one building under construction](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AR-muni-merger-thumb-760x570.png)
France, Forcing Municipal Mergers, Achieves Growth in Housing Units
Construction permitting power taken from cities that resisted development
![A portrait of King Charles II of Spain. The image depicts the king's Habsburg Jaw.](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AR-inbreeding-monarch-thumb.jpg)
Leadership Matters: Countries Suffered Under Poor Quality Monarchs
Measuring inbreeding allows study to isolate rulers from circumstances
![View of an empty office building](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AR-wfh-card.jpg)
Work From Home: Adjustments Still to Come?
The history of industrial transformation suggests more gradual change
![Four children independently working on a math assignment](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AR-gendergap-math-thumb-template-760x570.png)
Math Gender Gap: Nonexistent for Blacks, Notable for Affluent Whites
Well-to-do families doting on their sons at daughters’ expense?
![Soliders kneeling behind 2 other soldiers in civil war era.](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AR-civil-war-hero-760x570.jpg)
What Makes a Good Front-Line Manager — in Business and in War?
Civil War officers with working-class backgrounds held units together best
![Two women having a conversation](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AR-confront-bias-hero-760x570.jpg)
Confront on One Prejudice — and Reduce Overall Bigotry
Whites reprimanded for using a Black stereotype express fewer biases about Latinx people and women
![Industrial looms](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/80228-760x570.jpg)
Amid Technology Boom, Where Are Productivity Gains?
19th-century French cotton mills suggest halting, uneven progress
![Collage of diverse business women](https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AR-gender-diversity-hero-760x570.jpg)
White Men Admire a Company That Employs White Women
But white men, seeing African American women employed, don’t react so favorably