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Mortgage Foreclosures and the Changing Mix of Crime in Micro-neighborhoodsObjectives: The main objectives of the study are to estimate the impact of mortgage foreclosures on the location of criminal activity within a blockface. Drawing on routine activity theory, disorder theory, and social disorganization theory, the study …
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How Much to Save? Decision Costs and Retirement Plan ParticipationDeciding how much to save for retirement can be complicated. Drawing on a field experiment conducted with the Department of Defense, we study whether such complexity depresses participation in an employer-sponsored retirement saving plan. We find that …
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Special issue proposal approved: Migration Studies. Arrival on the Margins. Special issue proposal approved: Migration Studies. Arrival on the Margins. …
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On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): mind the theory-policy-practice gapWe argue that the field of health policy and management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform health care systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the …
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Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000Over the past two decades, Shanghai, the largest megacity in China, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. We study the …
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Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York CityIngrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan, Sophia House, and Ryan Brenner …
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Localized Commercial Effects from Natural Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Sandy and New York City.Ingrid Gould Ellen, Rachel Meltzer, and Xiaodi Li …
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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from ResearchIngrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan, and Sophia House …
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Healthcare use trajectories and costs for people in the last year of life: a retrospective analysis using linked primary care and hospital data in EnglandBMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, forthcoming. …
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Estimating the Intergenerational Persistence of Lifetime Earnings with Life Course Matching: Evidence from the PSID Why do estimates of the intergenerational persistence in earnings vary so much for the United States? Recent research suggests that lifecycle bias may be a major factor [Grawe, N., Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence. …
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Pension Participation: Do Parents Transmit Time Preference?A wide range of economic and health behaviors are influenced by individuals’ attitudes toward the future—including investments in human capital, health capital and financial capital. Intergenerational correlations in such behaviors suggest an important …
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My Brother's Keeper? The Association between Having Siblings in Poor Health and Wealth AccumulationWhen confronted with the economic costs of addressing a serious health problem, many American households do not possess the ability to deal with the crises on their own and may turn to family members for help. Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study …
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Time-preference, Non-cognitive Skills and Well-being across the Life Course: Do Non-cognitive Skills Encourage Healthy Behavior?No abstract available. …
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Walking, Obesity and Urban Design in Chinese NeighborhoodsObjective: We examined the connections (1) between the design of the built environment and walking, (2) between the design of the built environment and obesity, and (3) between walking and obesity and income in urban settings in China. Methods: Six …
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Application of global positioning system methods for the study of obesity and hypertension risk among low-income housing residents in New York City: a spatial feasibility studyThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using global positioning system (GPS) methods to understand the spatial context of obesity and hypertension risk among a sample of low-income housing residents in New York City (n = 120). GPS …
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Of Risk and Pork: Urban Security and the Politics of RationalityThis article focuses on the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) controversy as a case study in the politics of risk assessment. It examines struggles among diverse actors–think tank experts, journalists, politicians, and government officials–engaged in …
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Convergence: News Production in a Digital AgeA paradox of contemporary sociology is that the discipline has largely abandoned the empirical study of journalistic organizations and news institutions at the moment when the media has gained visibility in political, economic, and cultural spheres; when …
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Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban IsolationIn July 1995 over 700 Chicago residents, most of them old and impoverished, died in a short but devastating heat wave. As part of a `social autopsy' of this disaster that goes beyond natural factors to uncover the institutional forces that made the urban …
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Bodies That Don't Matter: Death and Dereliction in ChicagoThrough a case study of the scientific, political and journalistic treatment of dead bodies in the 1995 Chicago heat wave, this article questions what kinds of truths are written on or contained within the body and what happens to the study of society …
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Information et production numériqueThe dominant discourse on the changes in journalism brought about by new technologies stresses the creation of an international network, transparency, increased professional autonomy; it interprets these phenomena as progress prompted by the explosion of …
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Symbolic Politics in the Information Age: The 1996 Republican Presidential Campaigns in CyberspaceThis paper traces the use of the World Wide Web as a medium of political communication during the 1996 American presidential campaigns. Beginning with the Republican campaigns’ use of the medium during the primary election season, a typology of uses of …
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Functional Performance and Social Relations Among the Elderly in Greater Metropolitan Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil: a Population-Based Epidemiological StudyThis study was conducted in a probabilistic sample of 2,055 elderly in Greater Metropolitan Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, to examine components of social network (conjugal status and visits by the children, other relatives, and friends) and …
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The Contribution of Health Care and Other Interventions to Black-White Disparities in Life Expectancy, 1980-2007Black–white mortality disparities remain sizable in the United States. In this study, we use the concept of avoidable/amenable mortality to estimate cause-of-death contributions to the difference in life expectancy between whites and blacks by gender in …
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Measuring the Degree of Integrated Tuberculosis and HIV Service Delivery in Cape Town, South AfricaTo address the considerable tuberculosis (TB)/HIV co-infected population in Cape Town, a number of clinics have made an effort of varying degrees to integrate TB and HIV services. This article describes the development of a theory-based survey instrument …