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The relative stability of cohabiting and marital unions for children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-04)
Children are increasingly born into cohabiting parent families, but we know little to date about the implications of this family pattern for children's lives. We examine whether children born into premarital cohabitation ...
The Reliability of Measurement and the Cross-Time Stability of Individual and Family Variables
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2001-08)
Does the Market Pay Off? Earnings Inequality and Returns to Education in Urban China
(2002-04-01)
The paper examines earnings inequality and earnings returns to education in China among four types of workers characterized by their labor market history. Compared to workers staying in the state sector, early market ...
Community Isomorphism and Corporate Social Action
(Academy of Management Review (Forthcoming), 2005)
We advance a model of how institutional pressures at the community level shape
corporate social action within the metropolitan area in which firms are headquartered. We define corporate social action as those firm behaviors ...
Modeling a diverse and democratic America: The Michigan Community Scholars program
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-11)
Student, faculty, community, and staff participants in a scholarly program at the University of Michigan are attempting to create a microcosmic representation of a country built on shared work and celebration of diverse ...
Upstream Solutions: Does the Supplemental Security Income Program Reduce Disability in the Elderly?
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-03)
Trends and transitions in the institutional environment for public and private science
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2005-01)
The last quarter-century bore witness to a sea change in academic involvement with commerce. Widespread university-based efforts to identify, manage, and market intellectual property (IP) have accompanied broad shifts in ...
“Swapping” Families: Serial Parenting and Economic Support for Children
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2000-02)
Stigma: An insider's view
(Blackwell, 2001)
The literature on stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination has typically focused on the ways dominant groups negatively view and respond to minority groups. We suggest an insiders's persepctive to focus attention on the ...