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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Leuenberger W   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Transportation and development: insights from the U.S., 1840-1860 [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the effects of large transportation costs on economic development. We argue that the Midwest and the Northeast of the U.S. is a natural case because starting from 1840 decent data is available showing that the two regions shared key ...
Arilton Teixeira   +2 more
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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

The Impact of Public and Private R&D on Farmers' Production Decisions: Econometric Evidence for Midwestern States, 1960-2004 [PDF]

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The objective of this paper is to identify the impact of public and private agriculturalresearch on multi-output multi-input profit maximizing decisions of Midwestern farmers. The mainhypothesis is that investments in public and private R&D shift outward
Fan, Xing   +2 more
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
wiley   +1 more source

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