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The Effect of Wealth Inequality on Higher Education Outcomes: A Critical Review
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-10)American society reflects considerable class immobility, much of which may be explained by the wide gaps in college completion rates between economically advantaged and disadvantaged groups of students. First, we discuss ... -
Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting Nineteenth-Century U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-05)Existing evidence of educational effects on intergenerational mobility is associational. This study employs early compulsory schooling laws to approach a causal estimate of the relationship between education and mobility ... -
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
(Elsevier, 2017-03)This paper presents evidence of the relationship between exposure to a community-based Children's Savings Account (CSA) program and parents' educational expectations for their children. We examine survey data collected as ... -
WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN A SUB-SAHARAN SETTING Dialectics of Empowerment and Dependency
(SAGE Publications, 2016-03-21)Western scholarship on religion and gender has devoted considerable attention to women’s entry into leadership roles across various religious traditions and denominations. However, very little is known about the dynamics ... -
Field of Study in College and Lifetime Earnings in the United States
(SAGE Publications, 2015-10)Our understanding about the relationship between education and lifetime earnings often neglects differences by field of study. Utilizing data that matches respondents in the Survey of Income and Program Participation to ... -
Contraception and Abortion in a Low-Fertility Setting: The Role of Seasonal Migration
(Guttmacher Institute, 2013-09)CONTEXT: Seasonal labor migration is common among men in many former Soviet republics. Little research has examined contraceptive use and induced abortion among women in such low-fertility, high-migration settings, according ... -
Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States
(University of Chicago Press, 2006-01)This article examines the effects of an uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/belonging and segmented assimilation, and using Victor Turner's concept ... -
Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants
(University of Chicago Press, 2012-03)This article analyzes how Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws. Based on ethnographic observations and over 200 interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009 with immigrants ... -
Men’s Migration, Women’s Personal Networks, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Mozambique
(MDPI, 2013-03)This study brings together the literature on social network approaches to social capital and health and on migration and HIV risks to examine how non-migrating wives of labor migrants use their personal networks to cope ... -
Teens’ social media use and collective action
(Sage, 2014-09)This research examined how social self-efficacy, collective self-esteem, and need to belong can be used to predict teens’ use of social media. The particular focus was on how these social psychological variables together ... -
Ethnic differences in medicinal plant use among University students: a cross-sectional survey of self-reported medicinal plant use at two Midwest Universities
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background Numerous surveys of medicinal plant use among college students abound, but none compare use between students enrolled in two different Universities with significantly different ethnic compositions. The objective ... -
The Alternative Genealogy of Civil Society and Its Implications for Africa: Notes for Further Research
(CODESRIA, 2004-01-01)Despite its ubiquity in popular and academic discourses, consensus about the epistemological status of the idea of civil society remains elusive. In Africa, the literature is circumscribed by doubts about, first, its ... -
Critical Theory and Public Life: Response to Brante and Chung
(American Journal of Sociology, 1990-01-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Comparing the Canadian and US Systems of Health Care in an Era of Healthcare Reform
(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2012-10)The purpose of this article is to provide an informed comparison of health care in the United States and Canada along multiple dimensions, Specifically this article looks at coverage, access, cost, health outcomes, ... -
Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court
(University of California Press, 1984-07)A number of hypotheses about the effect of gender on the likelihood of incarceration in the juvenile court are tested. A purposive sample of 3911 delinquent (nonstatus) offending youths from 19 juristictions throughout the ... -
In the Interest of the State: Production Politics in the Nineteenth Century Prison
(University of California Press, 1990-08)During the nineteenth century, the jails, penitentiaries, and reformatories of America were "industrialized" under both public and private production regimes. Society-centered revisionist writing in both sociology and ... -
Technology, Control, and the Social Organization of Work at a British Hardware Firm, 1791-1891
(University of Chicago Press, 1987-07)This paper examines the social relations of production at a British metal-trades firm throughout the 19th century. The case study reveals the existence of two distinct political apparatuses, or regimes, identified in ... -
International Funding of Educational Development: External Agendas and Internal Adaptations: The Case of Liberia
(University of Chicago Press, 1989-02)The past quarter century has been a period of tremendous educational growth in developing countries. During the period from 1960 to 1985, primary school enrollments in developing states rose 50 percent, from 60.7 percent ... -
The Expansion of Mass Education in Botswana: Local and World Society Perspectives
(University of Chicago Press, 1993-11)Since the end of the Second World War, the growth of education is notable for several reasons. First, the institutions of mass education have spread to virtually all countries despite vast differences in political, ... -
Public Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930
(University of Chicago Press, 1979-11)Current discussions of the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the bureaucratization of American public education in the later 19th century do not offer effective explanations of the expansion of the educational ...
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