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Time Out for Childcare: Signalling and Earnings Rebound Effects for Men and Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1996-09)
The wage cost of time out of the labor force for childcare is important in order to understand the functioning of labor markets and for public policy. This paper reviews the literature and identifies several limitations. ...
Psychometrics of a Brief Acculturation Scale for Hispanics in a Probability Sample of Urban Hispanic Adolescents and Young Adults
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., 1996)
This article presents data in support of the reliability and validity of afour-item measure of acculturationfor Hispanics. The study has three strengths. First, this brief measure is evaluated with a probability sample of ...
The Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Neonatal Death
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1999-05)
Integration, Disintegration, and Reintegration via Advanced Information Technology
(Sage Publications, 1996)
American culture is shifting from a mass culture toward increasing specialization and diversification. The growth of communication in cyberspace is consistent with this trend inasmuch as it supports the proliferation of ...
Contemporary abortion patterns: A life history approach
(Elsevier, 1992-01)
This paper applies an ecological model of reproductive choice, life history theory, to humans. It models a tension among further investment in self, in present offspring, and later investment in future offspring. Some ...
Risk factors for disability among U.S. adults with arthritis
(Elsevier, 1991)
This article studies risk factors for physical and social disability among U.S. adults ages 55+ who have arthritis, compared to non-arthritis persons of those ages. The dependent variables refer to difficulties in walking, ...
Thai elderly who do not coreside with their children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-01)
In this paper, data from a nationally representative survey of elderly Thais living in private households are analyzed. The analysis focuses on situations of the 756 elderly who do not coreside with an adult child. Only a ...