This article highlights the new racial and ethnic diversity in rural America, which may be the most important but least anticipated population shift in recent demographic history.
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March, 2012
This paper focuses on the changing economic value of secondary and higher education in four potential world economic powerhouses - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - known as the BRIC countries.
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January, 2012
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November, 2011
In this chapter I examine whether and how the relationship between family socioeconomic characteristics and academic achievement has changed during the last fifty years.
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July, 2011
In an advanced society like the U.S., where an array of processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist?
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February, 2011
The study of intergenerational mobility and most population research are governed by a two-generation (parent-to-offspring) view of intergenerational influence, to the neglect of the effects of grandparents and other ancestors and nonresident contemporary kin.
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February, 2011
In recent years, sociologists have taken up a fruitful examination of institutions such as capital, labor, and product markets; industrial organization; and stock exchanges.
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January, 2011
How do electoral rules affect the poor? When do parties have an incentive to stand as the party of low-income citizens? When will parties mobilize the electoral support of low-income voters?
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January, 2011
This research proposes and tests a new theoretical mechanism to account for a portion of the motherhood penalty in wages and related labor market outcomes.
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October, 2010