Home is Hard to Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners [0.03%]
回家路漫漫：回归社会的囚犯面临的居住困境
David J Harding,Jeffrey D Morenoff,Claire W Herbert
David J Harding
Poor urban communities experience high rates of incarceration and prisoner reentry. This paper examines the residences where former prisoners live after prison, focusing on returns to pre-prison social environments, residential mobility, an...
Race/Ethnic and Nativity Disparities in Child Overweight in the United States and England [0.03%]
美国和英格兰儿童肥胖的种族/民族和国籍差异
Melissa L Martinson,Sara McLanahan,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Melissa L Martinson
Child overweight is a growing problem in wealthy countries. There is also evidence that child overweight varies by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. In this article, the authors use data from two recent birth cohort studies in the Un...
Educational Achievement Gaps between Immigrant and Native Students in Two "New Immigration Countries": Italy and Spain in comparison [0.03%]
移民与本土学生在两个"新移民国家"中的教育成就差距比较：意大利和西班牙的对比研究
Davide Azzolini,Philipp Schnell,John Palmer
Davide Azzolini
We use PISA 2009 data to determine how immigrant children in Italy and Spain compare with native students in reading and mathematics skills. Drawing on the vast empirical literature in traditional immigration countries, we test the extent t...
Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records [0.03%]
种族与犯罪记录对青年男性就业的影响：序列劣势的证据
Devah Pager,Bruce Western,Naomi Sugie
Devah Pager
In this article, the authors report the results of a large-scale field experiment conducted in New York City investigating the effects of race and a prison record on employment. Teams of black and white men were matched and sent to apply fo...
Policy Transparency and College Enrollment: Did the Texas Top 10% Law Broaden Access to the Public Flagships? [0.03%]
政策透明度与大学入学率：得克萨斯州前十 percent 法案是否扩大了对公立高校的访问权限？
Mark C Long,Victor B Saenz,Marta Tienda
Mark C Long
By guaranteeing college admission to all students who graduate in the top 10% of their high school class, H.B. 588 replaced an opaque de facto practice of admitting nearly all top 10% graduates with a transparent de jure policy that require...
Robert F Schoeni,Frank Stafford,Katherine A McGonagle et al.
Robert F Schoeni et al.
Michael Hennessy,Amy Bleakley,Martin Fishbein
Michael Hennessy
Quantitative researchers distinguish between causal and effect indicators. What are the analytic problems when both types of measures are present in a quantitative reasoned action analysis? To answer this question, we use data from a longit...
Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High School Attended Matter? [0.03%]
种族与族裔差异与大学成就：所上的高中是否重要？
Jason M Fletcher,Marta Tienda
Jason M Fletcher
This paper uses 10 years of enrollment data at four Texas public universities to examine whether, to what extent, and in what ways high school attended contributes to racial and ethnic differences in college achievement. Like previous studi...
Nativity Differences in Mothers' Health Behaviors: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Lens [0.03%]
民族间母亲健康行为的差异：跨国和纵向视角
Margot Jackson,Sara McLanahan,Kathleen Kiernan
Margot Jackson
Age at Immigration and the Adult Attainments of Child Migrants to the United States [0.03%]
移民年龄与移民儿童在美国的成长环境及成人后的成就之间的关系研究
Audrey Beck,Miles Corak,Marta Tienda
Audrey Beck
Immigrants' age at arrival matters for schooling outcomes in a way that is predicted by child development theory: the chances of being a high school dropout increase significantly each year for children who arrive in a host country after th...