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1	Convergence or divergence in Los Angeles: three distinctive ethnic patterns of immigrant residential assimilation	Yu, Zhou; Myers, Dowell	This paper uses census microdata to examine five aspects of residential assimilation in the greater Los Angeles area. A double cohort method is used to separate the effect of duration in the U.S. from the effect of aging. We track a single arrival cohort that came in 1970-79, and analyze the process...	Residential assimilation; immigrants; cohort; Los Angeles; homeownership	2006-01-11
2	Guided group discussion and attitude change: the roles of normative and informational influence	Werner, Carol M.; Sansone, Carol; Brown, Barbara B.	Group discussion has effectively changed attitudes and behaviors compared to individually-targeted messages (Lewin, 1952; Werner, 2003). This study examines the roles of normative and informational social influence in this effect. High school students heard a message about replacing toxic products w...	Elaboration likelihood model; ELM; waste reduction; sustainability; household hazardous waste; HHW; toxic waste; nontoxic alternatives; group discussion	2008-03
3	Physical activity mediates the relationship between perceived crime safety and obesity	Brown, Barbara B.	Objective. The current cross-sectional study tests whether low perceived crime safety is associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity risk and whether less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) accounts for part of this relationship. Method. Adults (n=864) from a relatively low-income a...		2014-01-01
4	Structural transformation in China and India: the role of macroeconomic policies	Von Arnim, Rudiger Lennart	This paper explores macroeconomic policies that can sustain structural change in China and India. A two-sector open-economy model with endogenous productivity growth, demand driven output and income distribution as an important determinant of economic activity is calibrated to a 2000 SAM for China a...		2012-01-01
5	Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: implications for technological dynamism and regional development	Wei, Y. H. Dennis	This paper analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and R&D activities in China and discusses their implications for technological dynamism and regional development. We investigate foreign ventures (or foreign-invested enterprises, FIEs) in the information and communication technology...		2012-01
6	Explaining prehistoric variation in the abundance of large prey: a zooarchaeological analysis of deer and rabbit hunting along the Pecho Coast of Central California	Codding, Brian F.	Three main hypotheses are commonly employed to explain diachronic variation in the relative abun dance of remains of large terrestrial herbivores: (1) large prey populations decline as a function of anthro pogenic overexploitation; (2 ) large prey tends to increase as a result of increasing social p...	Foraging; resource depression; prestige hunting; paleoclimatic variability; human behavioral ecology; zooarchaeology; central California	2009-11-14
7	Aberrant functional connectivity of cortico-basal ganglia circuits in major depression	Suchy, Yana	There is considerable evidence of functional abnormalities of the cortico-basal ganglia circuitry in affective disorders. However, it has been unknown whether this represented primary pathology within these circuits or altered activation as a result of aberrant input from other brain regions. The ai...		2012-01-01
8	Spatial-temporal hierarchy of regional inequality of China	Wei, Y. H. Dennis	This paper advances the multi-scale and multi-mechanism framework of regional inequality in China by using the most recent statistical data. We analyze the multi-scalar patterns of China's regional inequality with GIS and statistical techniques, and demonstrate the significance of the municipality e...	Regional inequality; Spatial hierarchy; GIS	2010-07
9	Neighborhood socioeconomic status and BMI differences by immigrant and legal status: Evidence from Utah	Wen, Ming	We build on recent work examining the BMI patterns of immigrants in the US by distinguishing between legal and undocumented immigrants. We find that undocumented women have relative odds of obesity that are about 10 percentage points higher than for legal immigrant women, and their relative odds of ...		2014-01-01
10	Thanks for nothing: income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982	Wolfinger, Nicholas H.	We examine the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain impoverished. Their income growth over these years was modest despite substantial gains ...		2011
11	Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging housing market	Yu, Zhou	China's emerging housing market, as a critical element of ongoing economic reforms, has drawn increasing attention. The complete abandonment of the socialist housing allocation system in the late 1990s has led to profound changes in housing distribution and consumption in urban China. This article, ...	Housing distribution; Housing reform; Chinese Census; Beijing; Shanghai; Tianjin; Chongqing
12	Restructuring for growth in urban China: transitional institutions, urban development, and spatial transformation	Wei, Y. H. Dennis	This research examines government policies and urban transformation in China through a study of Hangzhou City, which is undergoing dramatic growth and restructuring. As the southern center of the Yangtze River Delta, an emerging global city region of China, Hangzhou has been restlessly searching for...		2012
13	J. P. Rushtons theory of ethnic nepotism	Harpending, Henry C.	Unreciprocated aid among co-ethnics and the emotional intensity of ethnic conflict have long been explanatory challenges to evolutionary science. J. P. Rushton's theory of assortative ethnic affiliation-altruism, mating and friendship directed towards fellow ethnics-derives from his more general the...		2012-01-01
14	How students socially evaluate interest: peer responsiveness influences evaluation and maintenance of interest	Sansone, Carol	Social influences (e.g., by teachers, parents and peers) on students' experience of interest are typically described in terms of affecting students' initial choice of and/or completion of specific educational activities. When considered within the framework of the Self-Regulation of Motivation (SRM)...		2012-01-01
15	Dynamics, space, and regional inequality in provincial China: a case study of Guangdong province	Wei, Y. H. Dennis	This paper investigates the regional inequality in one of the most developed provinces in China, Guangdong, from 1979 to 2009 and follows the multi-scale and multi-mechanism framework. We have found a new round of intensifying inequality in Guangdong since the early 2000s, which is attributed to the...		2012-01-01
16	The molecular clock	Rogers, Alan R.	The molecular clock uses evolutionary changes in proteins and DNA to measure the passage of time. Yet molecular evolution is clocklike only to a first approximation. Uncertainties arise because of variation in rates of molecular evolution, because of difficulty in calibrating clocks, and because we ...		2013-01-01
17	Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science	Codding, Brian	The future of archaeological science relies as much (if not more) on theoretical as on methodological developments. As with anything in biology, explaining past human behavior will require the application of evolutionary theory. As with anything in archaeology, theory is useless without clear ties t...		2015-01-01
18	Cell phone effect on motor vehicle fatality rates: a Bayesian and classical econometric evaluation	Fowles, Richard	This paper examines the potential effect of cell phones on motor vehicle fatality rates normalized for other driving related and socioeconomic factors. The model used is nonlinear so as to address both life-taking and life-saving attributes of cell phones. The model is evaluated using classical meth...		2010
19	Codding, Brian: Living outside the box: An updated perspective on diet breadth and sexual division of labor in the Prearchaic Great Basin [Author's Manuscript]	Codding, Brian	A tremendous amount has been learned about the Prearchaic (before 9000 BP) Great Basin since we advocated a perspective of sexual division of labor based on Human Behavioral Ecology a decade ago. Many investigators have taken our advice and a few have challenged our assumptions and inferences. One o...		2014-01-01
20	Living standards in black and white: evidence from the heights of Ohio prison inmates, 1829-1913	Maloney, Thomas N.	The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains limited. One su...	Stature, Inequality, Nineteenth century US race relations	2008-07
21	What is a cohort effect? Comparison of three statistical methods for modeling cohort effects in obesity prevalence in the United States, 1971-2006	Utz, Rebecca L.	Analysts often use different conceptual definitions of a cohort effect, and therefore different statistical methods, which lead to differing empirical results. A definition often used in sociology assumes that cohorts have unique characteristics confounded by age and period effects, whereas epidem...	Cohort effect; Obesity prevalence	2010
22	Psychopathy among pedophilic and non-pedophilic child molesters	Strassberg, Donald	Research is making increasing clear that, among men who sexually offend against prepubescent children, there are at least two subgroups, pedophiles and non-pedophiles, and that the groups differ in many important respects. Our ability to understand the etiology, nature, and most effective treatment ...		2012-01-01
23	Trans-local ties, local ties and psychological well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai	Wen, Ming	During the past three decades, an estimated 200 million rural residents have moved to urban centers in China. They are "sojourners" in the cities and maintain close ties with their home communities, which we term trans-local ties. This paper examines the relationship between migrants' social ties an...		2012-01-01

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