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Desai leads establishment of National Data Innovation Centre in New Delhi
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Far-reaching program will stimulate research, support graduate student development in India and U.S.
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Tod Hamilton, Princeton University
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Diverse Origins, Disparate Outcomes: The New Landscape of Black America
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Ruth Milkman, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
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Precarity and Polarization: Global Migrants in the 21st Century U.S. Labor Market
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As Good as the Networks They Keep?: Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
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We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We show that the intervention significantly increased the productivity of all farmers except those who were already in the highest quintile of productivity and that there were significant spillovers in productivity to male farmers.
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Kenneth Leonard, Ph.D.
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Kenneth Leonard Publications
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The cost of access: Racial disparities in student loan burdens of young adults
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Student loans have become a social-financial issue in the United States. This study uses a nationally representative dataset to examine the association between financial socialization and student loan borrowing behavior of individuals after controlling a number of different socio-demographic factors. Results show that the financial burdens of college education, such as borrowing and the dollar amounts of a loan, are higher for Blacks, however, their college attendance is significantly lower than Whites. Blacks are more independent and receive less financial support from family and relatives than Whites. The wealth gap that exists between Black and White parents may contribute to the disparity. Additional financial resources for higher education as well as financial education and counseling may be needed to create better academic access for the vulnerable underserved groups including minority students.
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Jinhee Kim, Ph.D.
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JinHee Kim Publications
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Love, money, and parental goods: Does parental matchmaking matter?
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While parental matchmaking has been widespread throughout history and across countries, we know little about the relationship between parental matchmaking and marriage outcomes. Does parental involvement in matchmaking help ensure their needs are better taken care of by married children? This paper finds supportive evidence using a survey of Chinese couples. In particular, parental involvement in matchmaking is associated with having a more submissive wife, a greater number of children, a higher likelihood of having any male children, and a stronger belief of the husband in providing old age support to his parents. These benefits, however, are achieved at the cost of less marital harmony within the couple and lower market income of the wife. The results render support to and extend the findings of Becker, Murphy and Spenkuch (2015) where parents meddle with children's preferences to ensure their commitment to providing parental goods such as old age support.
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Ginger Zhe Jin, Ph.D.
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Ginger Zhe Jin Publications
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Parental involvement, child effort, and the development of immigrant boys’ and girls’ reading and mathematics skills: A latent difference score growth model
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U.J. Moon and Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland // Keywords: academic achievement, gender differences, immigrant children, parent involvement, longitudinal study; 2016-006
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How Do They Do It? The Immigrant Paradox in the Transition to Adulthood
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Sandra Hofferth and U.J. Moon, University of Maryland // Keywords: Immigrants, children, transition to adulthood, education, employment, extracurricular activities, culture; 2016-004
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Ruth Zambrana to Study Latina Entrepreneurs
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3 year study to collect data from six states in the U.S.
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Household extension and employment among Asian immigrant women in the US
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Philip Cohen and Jeehye Kang, University of Maryland; 2015-004
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