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Intergenerational mobility and return migration: comparing sons of foreign and native born fathers
, 2005 This paper studies the intergenerational mobility in earnings and education for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We develop a simple model which illustrates that a higher probability of a permanent migration of the parent ...
Dustmann, Christian, Dustmann, C.
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Chinese Loans and Africa's Agricultural Investment: A Bayesian Multilevel Modelling Analysis
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chinese lending to Africa expanded substantially after 2000, with agriculture often presented as a strategic sector in China–Africa development cooperation. This study examined whether Chinese loans to African agriculture reflected a differentiated financing strategy or formed part of a broader development finance portfolio.
Adrino Mazenda
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Modeling intergenerational relations in South India [PDF]
Economic models of intergenerational relations in developing countries revolve around the idea of a contract: parents look after the young in return for support in old age. Using comparative data on intergenerational relations amongst the poor in rural
Vera-Sanso, Penny
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
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Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China [PDF]
This paper examines the intergenerational correlation of education in rural China. The focus is on the influence of family class origin (jiating chengfen), the political label hung on every family throughout the Maoist era.
Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato
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Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity‐specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe:
Eva Krejcova +2 more
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How Much Help Is Exchanged in Families? Towards an Understanding of Discrepant Research Finding [PDF]
Responding to claims that contemporary families had abandoned their elderly members, gerontologists over the past 30 years have provided extensive documentation of intergenerational familial support.
Carolyn J. Rosenthal, Leroy O. Stone
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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Experience and self‐interest: Diverging responses to global warming
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract People are increasingly feeling global warming's effects through extreme heat and natural disasters. How do these climate shocks affect political attitudes? We argue that the effect of climate‐related experiences depends significantly on self‐interest.
Alexander F. Gazmararian +1 more
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