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A comprehensive policy agenda that could help millennials ... and other generations too.

Are millennial women and men working side by side in the new economy? Or are their occupations just as gender-segregated as ever?

Millennials have a mobility problem. And it’s partly because the economy is no longer delivering a steady increase in high-status jobs.

The payoff to a college degree is as high for millennials as it’s ever been. But it’s partly because millennials who don’t go to college are getting hammered in the labor market.

Often tagged the “student debt generation,” millennials took out more student loans, took out larger student loans, and defaulted more frequently. Here’s a step-by-step accounting of how we let this happen.

Housing reforms during the civil rights era helped to narrow the white-black homeownership gap. But those gains have now been completely lost ... and the racial gap in young-adult homeownership is larger for millennials than for any generation in the past century.

Millennial poverty rates at age 30 are no higher than those of Gen Xers at the same age. But this stability hides a problem: Millennials are replacing a falloff in earnings with large increases in government assistance programs.

When millennials entered the labor market during the Great Recession and its aftermath, there were uniformly gloomy predictions about their fate. Does the evidence bear out such gloomy predictions?,

Labor force activity has declined especially rapidly among young workers. The good news: We know how to take on this problem.

The usual stereotypes have it that millennials are embracing a more diverse and unconventional set of racial and gender identities. Are those stereotypes on the mark?

What are the most promising science-based policies for reducing gender inequality at home and in the labor market? Read the magazine: inequality.stanford.edu/publications/pathway/state-union-2018

Although men used to have more social ties than men, now the gender gap has reversed and women have the larger networks. But women still have fewer coworker ties than men … and coworker ties matter a lot. Read the magazine: inequality.stanford.edu/publications/pathway/state-union-2018

The workplace is rife with sexual harassment. By age 25 to 26, one in three women and one in seven men experience behavior at work that they define as sexual harassment. Read the magazine: inequality.stanford.edu/publications/pathway/state-union-2018

A new science of gender discrimination is being built with audit studies and other experiments. A key result: Gender discrimination is more likely to emerge when the applicant’s commitment to work can be called into question or when an applicant is behaving in a gender-nonconforming way. Read the magazine: inequality.stanford.edu/publications/pathway/state-union-2018

State of the Union 2018: Occupational Segregation - Dafna Gelbgiser

State of the Union 2018: Safety Net - Linda Burton

State of the Union 2018: Poverty - H. Luke Shaefer

State of the Union 2018: Earnings - Emmanuel Saez

State of the Union 2018: Employment - Melissa Kearney

State of the Union 2018: Health - Mark Duggan

State of the Union 2018: Education - Sean Reardon

State of the Union 2018: Gender Identification - Aliya Saperstein

Fireside Chat with Kailash Satyarthi

State of the Union 2017: Employment

State of the Union 2017: Poverty

State of the Union 2017: Education

State of the Union 2017: Safety Net

State of the Union 2017: Incarceration

State of the Union 2017: Health