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Gender and Aging in the Developing World: Where Are the Men?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003-12)
Is the Interdependent Self More Sensitive to Question Context Than the Independent Self? Self-Construal and the Observation of Conversational Norms
(Elsevier, 2002-02-11)
Question answering requires close attention to the common ground to determine what the questioner wants to know. Because attentiveness to others is more likely to be a self-defining goal when the self is thought of as ...
The Ecology of School Improvement: Notes on the School Improvement Industry in the United States
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
This paper explains how organizations otherthan schools and governing agencies affect thescope and pace of change in American education.In particular, the paper discusses a set oforganizations operating in what can be ...
De-Romanticizing Black Intergenerational Support: The Questionable Expectations of Welfare Reform
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2001-02)
Union Formation Among Men in the U.S.: Does Having Prior Children Matter?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-02)
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper investigates how changes in neighborhood facilities—new schools, health posts, bus services, mills, dairies, agricultural cooperatives, and other facilities—influence perceptions of environmental degradation. ...
Environment, Access to Health Care, and Other Factors Affecting Infant and Child Survival Among the African and Coloured Populations of South Africa, 1989–94
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Some maintain that environmental factors are unimportant for infant and child survival once mother's education and other characteristics have been taken into account. However, an analysis of survival of African and Coloured ...