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Maloney, Thomas N. | Ghettos and jobs in history: neighborhood effects on African American occupational status and mobility in World War I-era Cincinnati, Ohio | This article examines how residence in racially segregated neighborhoods affected the job prospects of African American men in the late 1910s. The analysis focuses on one northern city-Cincinnati, Ohio.The evidence comes from a new longitudinal dataset containing information on individuals linked... | Economic outcomes; Residential segregation; Black urban neighborhoods | 2005 |
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Diener, Marissa L. | Gift from the gods: a Balinese guide to early child rearing | The influence of Western schools and other imports notwithstanding, many child-rearing practices recorded earlier in the century [in Indonesia] are still observable, especially those concerning infants and young children. For the "manual" that follows, I propose as the fictive author a male healer, ... | Children; Bali; Infants; Child rearing manuals | 2000 |
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Hawkes, Kristen; O'Connell, James F. | Global process and local ecology: how should we explain differences between the Hadza and the !Kung? | In this chapter we discuss explanations for the diversity of behavior of contemporary forager populations. Other contributors document variation among southern African savanna Bushman groups, and central African forest Pygmies. We confine ourselves to trying to explain some differences between two ... | | 1996 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Grandmothers and their consequences | Both what we share and don't share with our primate cousins make us human. Easy enough to start a list. At least since Darwin, most would rate moral sentiments as distinctively human. But our modern selves didn't emerge from ancestral apes in one step. When did populations along the way become human... | | 2012-01-01 |
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D'Astous, Valerie Anne | Grandparents and their grandchildren with autism spectrum disorder: building bridges through technology | Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impaired social interactions, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors or unusual or severely limited interests (American Psychiatric Association 2008). A child's autism diagnosis affect... | | 2011 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Gray agendas: interest groups and public pensions in Canada, Britain, and the United States, by Henry J. Pratt | Gray Agendas, by Wayne State University's Henry J. Pratt, is an in-depth and well-structured examination of the historical development of pension policy and its impact on interest groups in three countries over the last century: Canada, Britain, and the United States. It is of interest to political... | Gray agendas; Book review; Pratt, Henry J.; United States; Canada; Great Britain | 1995 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Grief, depressive symptoms, and physical health among recently bereaved spouses | Purpose of Study: Widowhood is among the most distressing of all life events, resulting in both mental and physical health declines. This paper explores the dynamic relationship between physical health and psychological well-being among recently bereaved spouses. Design and Method: Using a sample of... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Group selection by selective emigration: the effects of migration and kin structure | Group selection may operate through selective emigration, as Sewall Wright envisioned, as well as through selective extinction. The discrete-generation model of selective emigration developed here yields the following conclusions. 1. The fitness benefit of altruism, "depends on the frequency of altr... | Natural selection; Selective extinction; Evolution | 1990-03 |
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Werner, Carol M.; Sansone, Carol; Brown, Barbara B. | Guided group discussion and attitude change: the roles of normative and informational influence | 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 |
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Francis, John G. | HIV treatment as prevention: Not an argument for continuing criminalisation of HIV transmission | HIV prevention and treatment are undergoing impressive technological and practice changes. In-home rapid testing, prophylaxis before risky sex, and treatment as prevention give cause for remarkable optimism and suggest the possibility of an AIDS-free generation. These changes in HIV prevention and t... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | HIV/AIDS and the living arrangements of older persons across the Sub-Saharan African region | ABSTRACT: Older adults in sub-Saharan Africa face harsh living conditions including severe poverty and an HIV/AIDS epidemic that results in unprecedented rates of mortality. Yet, because of a lack of available data and only a trickle of past studies, the impact of these conditions on living circum... | HIV/AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa; Poverty | 2007-11-08 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Hadza children's foraging: juvenile dependency, social arrangement and mobility among hunter-gatherers | Presents a study on the foraging activities of Hadza children in Tanzania, Africa. Success of children's foraging; Determinants of children's foraging; Monitoring of the activities of children; Near-camp foraging return rates; Variables underlying the patterns of foraging. | Children; Foraging; Hazda; Hunter-gatherers | 1995 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Hadza scavenging: implications for Plio/Pleistocene Hominid subsistence | The frequent association of stone tools and large animal bones in African Plio/Pleistocene archaeological sites has long been taken as evidence of the importance of hunting in early hominid diets. Many now argue that it reflects hominid scavenging, not hunting. | Hadza; Scavenging; Plio/Pleistocene; Hominid Diet | 1988-04 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Hadza women's time allocation, offspring provisioning, and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans | Extended provisioning of offspring and long postmenopausal life spans are characteristic of all modern humans but no other primates. These traits may have evolved in tandem. Analysis of relationships between women's time allocation and children's nutritional welfare among the Hadza of northern Tanza... | Child care; Children, nutrition; Life spans, Biology; Mother & child; Primates; Social structure; Women; Time Management; Hominids | 1997 |
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Waitzman, Norman J. | Half-life of cost-of-illness estimates: the case of Spina Bifida | Neural tube defects, which include spina bifida, are one of the most frequent and important categories of birth defects. Accordingly, there has been considerable interest in studying the impact of spina bifida as a public health problem. This impact can be measured in various ways, including dise... | Spinal cord; Birth defect; Healthcare costs | 2004-10-12 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Has institutionalism won the development debate? | Institutionalism has again become central to development thinking, accompanied by an appreciation of the variety and complexity of institutional evolution. The result is not the 'old institutionalism' of Thorstein Veblen and Clarence Ayres or the 'new institutionalism' of the early Douglass North. ... | Development; Institutionalism; Markets | 2006 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice? | It is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: fac... | Age factors; Canada; Health care costs | 1994 |
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Yu, Zhou | Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging housing market | 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 | |
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Yu, Zhou | Heterogeneity in Asian American homeownership: the impact of household endowments and immigrant status | Recently, research has begun to investigate the reasons for differences in homeownership rates between Asian and whites. This paper extends this research by examining the heterogeneity that exists across Asian groups in the United States. We find that there are important differences across geog... | Immigrants; Homeownership | 2003 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Higher places in the industrial machinery?: tight labor markets and occupational advancement by black males in the 1910s | The economic history of African American workers since 1940 has been marked by alternating episodes of progress and stagnation. Sharp gains in relative incomes during the 1940s were followed by little change in this measure in the 1950s. Renewed progress from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s was follo... | Black people; Job opportunities; Labor market | 2005 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Hikikomori in Japanese youth: some possible pathways for alleviating this problem from the perspective of dynamic systems theory | In this paper, we will discuss the problem of hikikomori, in which an individual remains at home, typically isolated in the bedroom, with limited contact to the outside world. Hikikomori has been discussed primarily from a psychological perspective in Japan. In this paper, we take dynamic systems pe... | Social withdrawal; Dynamic systems theory | 2006 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | History of political theory and other essays (Book Review) | Reviews the book `The History of Political Theory and Other Essays,' by John Dunn. | Books; Political Theory | 2001-09-17 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support | Soaring homeownership and housing prices have made it more difficult for newcomers to climb the housing ladder without parental support. This study relies on China Household Finance Survey microdata in 2015 to examine the role of parental attributes and financial support on adult children's homeowne... | Demographics; Intergenerational mobility; Parental income transfers; Parental attributes | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership determinants for Chinese Americans: assimilation, ethnic concentration, and nativity | Chinese homeownership rates in the Los Angeles CMSA adjusted by socioeconomic and housing market characteristics are on average 18 percentage points higher than those of native white households Painter et al. (2003). This finding runs contrary to most of immigration literature, which suggests that i... | Chinese Americans; homeownership | 2004 |
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Broughton, John | Homestead cave Ichthyofauna | Biological evidence on the climatic and hydrographic history of the intermountain region would be much richer, if we had more than the present dribble of paleontological data on the fishes (Hubbs and Miller, 1948, p. 25). In this passage from their landmark synthesis of historical fish biogeograph... | Homestead Cave; Ichthyofauna; Lake Bonneville | 2000 |