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Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
wiley   +1 more source

Cooking Up Cooperation: The Influence of Trust on In‐Group Favoritism

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many works highlighted the role of identity in promoting in‐group favoritism, reporting however contrasting empirical results when such behavior entails a personal cost. This paper studies the occurrence of in‐group favoritism within and across communities with heterogeneous generalized trust.
Giovanni Perucca
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

Notes from the Field: Community Outbreak of Measles - Clark County, Washington, 2018-2019. [PDF]

open access: yesMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2019
Carlson A   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons on State and Local Income Taxes From the Twenty‐First Century and Challenges for the Future

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract I survey recent research on subnational income tax policy, arguing that a defining feature is geography. Geographic boundaries limit the power of subnational governments to tax people and activities. The article discusses where income should be taxed and the effects of these tax rules on the interjurisdictional mobility of people and jobs.
David R. Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

The Matthew Effect in American Generosity? Philanthropic Disparities and the Role of Government Support

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how economic, racial, and ecological dimensions of community disadvantage shape philanthropic donations to local human services nonprofit sectors, and whether government support mitigates these place‐based disparities. Using a novel county‐level panel dataset spanning 2000–2019, we combine descriptive analyses with mixed ...
Viviana Chiu Sik Wu, Ji Ma, Chao Guo
wiley   +1 more source

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