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The value of children to parents in the United States
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1978-06)
What is sexual harassment? It depends on who asks!; Framing effects on survey responses
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-03)
We examine the impact of the framing of the survey request––the description of the survey's sponsor and topic––on respondents' answers and describe three mechanisms that may underline such effects. Respondents can try to ...
Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household and Agricultural Systems
(Edinburgh University Press for the Association for History and Computing, 2006)
The Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement project (DEGS) is a study of the relationship between population and environment in Kansas during its settlement and conversion from grassland to grain cultivation and ...
Multivariate explanation of the 1985–1990 and 1995–2000 destination choices of newly arrived immigrants in the United States: the beginning of a new trend?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-09)
This paper identifies the salient features in the 1985–1990 and 1995–2000 destination choices of newly arrived immigrants, and performs multivariate explanation of these choices, based on an application of a multinomial ...
The structure of subjective well-being in nine western societies
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-01)
The structure of subjective well-being is analyzed by multidimensional mapping of evaluations of life concerns. For example, one finds that evaluations of Income are close to (i.e., relatively strongly related to) evaluations ...
A Bayesian model for longitudinal count data with non-ignorable dropout
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-12)
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 ...
Assistance to the poor in a federal system
(Elsevier, 1987-04)
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model incorporating utility interdependence, the paper first presents some theoretical results indicating how levels of poor ...
Good item or bad—can latent class analysis tell?: the utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-06)
Land use and forest cover on private parcels in the Upper Midwest USA, 1970 to 1990
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper analyzes the interactions between land use and forest cover in the Upper Midwest, USA from 1970 to 1990. New data are presented and interpreted to evaluate the effects of land-use changes, especially abandonment ...