Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
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Changing patterns of education, marriage and fertility in Chinese adolescents: a systematic synthesis of national and subnational population data from 1990 to 2020. [PDF]
Luo D +6 more
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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Understanding regional disparities in obesity: a multiscale geographically weighted analysis in the United States. [PDF]
Amponsah JK, Thompson JA, Ellis SD.
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Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?
ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 192:Women and Work after the Second World War: a Case Study of the Jute Industry, circa 1945-1954 [PDF]
Morelli, Carlo, Tomlinson, Jim
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When Families Choose Sons: Parental Gender Norms and Girls' Education in Ghana. [PDF]
Nartey PB +3 more
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CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance
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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Assessing the mental health impact of China's housing boom through national and city-level data analysis. [PDF]
Xiao Y, Liu X, Ren L, Lai S.
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