Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 [PDF]
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in ...
Melissa A. Thomasson, William J. Collins
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Review of national civil registration and vital statistics systems : a case study of Thailand [PDF]
, 2013 This report presents the results of the comprehensive assessment on national civil registration and vital statistics system (CRVS) of Thailand, which evaluated the key vital statistics derived from civil registration.
Health Systems Research Institute +2 more
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This registered report aims to evaluate the extent to which the human resources function can change public attitudes toward a controversial social issue. Focusing on the employment of formerly incarcerated people, we explore the novel concept of “human resources social advocacy” (HRSA), an interventionist approach through which HR might pro ...
Prue Burns +3 more
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What do we know about adult mortality and data quality in Peru? Mortality coverage levels and trends from recent decades [PDF]
Accurate knowledge of adult mortality levels and trends in the developing world is hampered by its widespread lack of complete vital registration systems.
Bernardo L. Queiroz, Mario Piscoya
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how accounting ideas travel to unfamiliar environments and instigate new modes of calculation therein. The empirical focus is on the food balance sheet, a key calculative technology in the realm of food security. Drawing on Said's four‐stage schema for analyzing the movement of theories and ideas, this investigation ...
Stephen P. Walker, Massimo Sargiacomo
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The effects of war losses on mortality estimates for Italy [PDF]
For countries that experience substantial war losses in a given time period, the exclusion of military deaths can have an important impact on estimates of mortality and life expectancy. In this paper, we start by reviewing Vallin’s work in accounting for
Dana Glei +2 more
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50 Years after the Civil Rights Act: The Ongoing Work for Racial Justice in the 21st Century [PDF]
, 2014 This report documents the state of civil and human rights, and paints a persuasive picture of just how far the United States still has to go to make racial justice a reality.
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CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance
Abacus, EarlyView.We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao +2 more
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Classification scheme for Illinois State publications : as applied to the documents collection at the library, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois [PDF]
, 1974 Includes ...
Nakata, Yuri, Strange, Michele
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