MINORITY HIGHER EDUCATION PIPLINE: CONSEQUNCES OF CHANGES IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS POLICY IN TEXAS [0.03%]
得克萨斯州高校录取政策变化对少数族裔高等教育Pipeline的影响分析及思考
Angel L Harris,Marta Tienda
Angel L Harris
This paper uses administrative data for the two most selective Texas public institutions to examine the application, admission and enrollment consequences of rescinding affirmative action and implementing the top 10% admission regime. We si...
THE NEW U. S. IMMIGRANTS: HOW DO THEY AFFECT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE? [0.03%]
新移民与非裔美国人的美国梦
Frank D Bean,Cynthia Feliciano,Jennifer Lee et al.
Frank D Bean et al.
The implications of recent immigration for race relations in the United States depend importantly on family cultural orientations among Mexican Americans and how this group is culturally perceived by Anglos. Because Moynihan's 1965 work (in...
Policy Shocks: On the Legal Auspices of Latin American Migration to the United States [0.03%]
政策冲击：论拉丁美洲移民美国的法律背景
Fernando Riosmena
Fernando Riosmena
In this paper, I compare the transition into legal permanent residence (LPR) of Mexicans, Dominicans, and Nicaraguans. Dominicans had the highest likelihood of obtaining residence, mostly sponsored by parents and spouses. Mexicans had the l...
Lawrence M Berger,Callie Langton
Lawrence M Berger
This article reviews the existing literature on young disadvantaged fathers' involvement with children. It first outlines the predominant theoretical perspectives regarding father involvement among resident (married and cohabiting) biologic...
Viewing Low-Income Fathers' Ties to Families through a Cultural Lens: Insights for Research and Policy [0.03%]
从文化角度审视低收入父亲与家庭的联系：对研究和政策的启示
Maureen R Waller
Maureen R Waller
Policy makers have become increasingly interested in addressing the cultural dimensions of child support, "responsible fatherhood," and marriage in poor communities. However, policy studies have primarily focused on identifying economic det...
Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men [0.03%]
论父性：未婚男性中父权动态与种族的关系
Kathryn Edin,Laura Tach,Ronald Mincy
Kathryn Edin
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that the black family was nearing "complete breakdown" due to high rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing. In subsequent decades, nonmarital childbearing rose dramatically for all racial groups and unwe...
In Search of Peace: Structural Adjustment, Violence, and International Migration [0.03%]
寻找和平：结构调整、暴力与国际移民
Steven Elías Alvarado,Douglas S Massey
Steven Elías Alvarado
The authors analyze the effects of structural adjustment and violence on international migration from selected countries in Latin America by estimating a series of event history models that predicted the likelihood of initial migration to t...
Douglas S Massey,Chiara Capoferro
Douglas S Massey
Beginning in 1987, Peru imposed a regime of structural adjustment to transform its economy along neoliberal lines. This analysis suggests that a shift resulted in the odds of international migration and the motivations for leaving among inh...
Undocumented Migration from Latin America in an Era of Rising U.S. Enforcement [0.03%]
美国加强执法时代的拉美非法移民现象
Douglas S Massey,Fernando Riosmena
Douglas S Massey
Available data have consistently pointed up the failure of U.S. policies to reduce undocumented migration from Latin America. To shed light on the reasons for this failure, we estimated a series of dynamic models of undocumented entry into ...
Jorge Durand,Douglas S Massey
Jorge Durand
Although migration from Mexico to the United States is more than a century old, until recently most other countries in Latin America did not send out significant numbers of migrants to foreign destinations. Over the past thirty years, howev...