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The Academic Effects of Chronic Exposure to Neighborhood ViolenceThis paper estimates the causal effect of repeated exposure to violent crime on test scores in New York City. We use two empirical strategies; value-added models linking student performance on standardised exams to violent crimes on students’ residential …
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Chapter 26: Reflections On The Role of Dialogue in Participatory Research and InquiryIn addition to co-editing the Handbook, Ospina is also co-author of the Chapter 26: Reflections On The Role of Dialogue in Participatory Research and Inquiry section …
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Chapter 3: Key Influences and Foundations of Participatory ResearchIn addition to co-editing the Handbook, Ospina is also co-author of the Chapter 3: Key Influences and Foundations of Participatory Research section …
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Chapter 71: Final Reflections: Participatory Research and the Need for Transformations in a World in CrisisJo Howard, Sonia Ospina, and Danny Burns …
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Chapter 31: Cooperative Inquiry As Dialogic ProcessJo Howard, Sonia Ospina, and Lyle Yorks …
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Chapter 2: Challenges In The Practice Of Participatory Research And InquiryDanny Burns, Jo Howard, and Sonia Ospina …
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The Effect of Residential Mobility on Student Performance: Evidence from New York CityResidential mobility is likely to have consequences for student performance, but prior empirical work is largely correlational and offers little insight into its impacts. Using rich, longitudinal data, we estimate the effects of residential mobility on …
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating the Complex and Dynamic Landscape of Participatory Research and InquirySonia M. Ospina, Danny Burns, & Jo Howard …
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Randomized trials in development economics: revolution or mirage?Development economists use RCTs in two distinct ways, on the one hand to measure the impacts of a project (implemented in the field by donors, NGOs, etc.), on the other hand to carry out experiments in real environments (by artificially varying a …
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The Port Authority Region and Foreign Exports: Prepared for the Centennial Symposium of The Port Authority of New York and New JerseyDuring the past hundred years, the Port Authority region has undergone a dramatic transformation, from an economy based on manufacturing to one tied to advanced business services. This report highlights the way in which services have emerged as the …
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Just Give People Money. But How and When?Just give people money. The idea is as simple as it is radical. At least it was radical until the coronavirus pandemic. With sluggish wages and household savings eroded by the pandemic, many struggling households simply need cash. Giving cash has turned …
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Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media DataAre legislators responsive to the priorities of the public? Research demonstrates a strong correspondence between the issues about which the public cares and the issues addressed by politicians, but conclusive evidence about who leads whom in setting the …
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Identity as Dependent Variable: How Americans Shift Their Identities to Align with Their PoliticsPolitical science generally treats identities such as ethnicity, religion, and sexuality as “unmoved movers” in the chain of causality. I hypothesize that the growing salience of partisanship and ideology as social identities in the United States, …
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Enhancing Accountability Through Results-oriented Monitoring and Evaluation SystemsSonia M. Ospina, Nuria Cunill-Grau, and Claudia Maldonado …
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Narrowing the Gender Gap in Mobile BankingMobile banking and related digital financial technologies can make financial services cheaper and more widely accessible in low-income economies, but gender gaps persist. We present evidence from two connected field experiments in Bangladesh designed to …
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Review of: Palestinians in Lebanon: Refugees Living with Long-Term Displacement by Rebecca RobertsN. Iskander …
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Review of: Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of DevelopmentN. Iskander …
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Street Vendors, Television Extras, Walmart Stockers, and More: Worker Subjectivity and Labor Processes in Atypical WorkThis essay reviews Enrique de la Garza Toledo’s anthology on atypical work, titled Trabajo no clásico, organización y acción colectiva (Vols. 1 & 2) and situates it within the larger tradition of Latin American sociology of work. It argues that the …