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Race and the Inheritance of Low Birth WeightThis paper uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to address the black-white difference in propensities toward low birth weight (LBW). We determine that socioeconomic conditions account for some variation in low birth …
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Is Biology Destiny: Birth Weight and Life ChancesTwo key questions are addressed regarding the intersection of socioeconomic status, biology, and low birth weight over the life course. First, do the income and other socioeconomic conditions of a mother during her pregnancy affect her chances of having a …
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Preventable Hospitalizations and Access to Health CareThe objective is to examine whether the higher hospital admission rates for chronic medical conditions such as asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes in low-income communities resulted from …
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Projecting Hospital Utilization and Bed Need in New York City for the Year 2000Billings, J., Kaplan, S & Mijanovich, T. …
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Recent Findings on Preventable HospitalizationsReports on the rates of preventable hospital admissions among low-income populations in the United States even with the efforts of improving primary health care. Comparison of low-income populations health outcomes between U.S. and Canada; Implications of …
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National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Working Group Report on the Financing of Asthma CareBillings, J., Kretz, S.E., Rose, R., Rosenbaum, S., Sullivan, M., Fowles, J. & Weiss, K.B. …
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Ambulatory Care Providers and the Transition to Medicaid Managed Care in New York CityThis book is a collection of 18 essays by health services researchers that analyze Medicaid managed care, its historical context, its implementation in several states, its applicability to disabled and other special needs populations, and its potential …
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Access to Health Care ServicesThoroughly presents today's health care system, its administration and its dissemination. …
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Analysis of Selection Effects in New York City's Medicaid Managed Care PopulationIt is becoming increasingly apparent that over the next several years the majority of Medicaid patients in many states will become enrolled in managed care plans, some voluntarily, but most as the result of mandatory initiatives. An important issue …
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A Modest Proposal for Improving New York State's Educational OutcomesBerne, R. & Fruchter, N. …
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Discrepancies Between Ideal Characteristics of a Property Tax System and Current Practice in New YorkBerne, R. & Netzer, D. …
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Estimating the Fiscal Impact of Secession: The Case of Staten Island and New York CityBerne, R., Cipollina, N., Netzer, D. & Stiefel, L. …
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The Coming of Age of School-Level Finance DataDiscusses implications for school finance data collection and analysis of shifting to schools as key management and policy units. Discusses questions that school-level data can answer concerning resource utilization efficiency, effectiveness, intent, and …
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Black-White Differences in Occupational Prestige: Their Impact on Child DevelopmentThis article examines whether differences in parental occupational prestige mediate or moderate race differences in four indicators of child development—reading scores, math scores, Behavior Problems Index, and health status—using data from the Panel …
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Adolescent Racial and Ethnic Identity in ContextLaRue Allen, Yael Bat-Chava, J. Lawrence Aber, and Edward Seidman find that the emotional benefit of racial pride for black adolescents is higher in predominantly black neighborhoods than in racially mixed environments. …
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Neighborhoods and Schools: Contexts and Consequences for the Mental Health and Risk Behaviors of Children and YouthThis second edition of Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's cognitive, emotional, and social …
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When Effort is Threatening: The Influence of the Belief in a Just World on American's Attitudes Toward Anti-Poverty PolicyIn the political context of the reauthorization of federal welfare reform legislation, a nationally representative sample of 1,570 adults in the United States completed a survey examining the factors that affect attitudes and policy preferences with …
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Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for ActionPsychologists discuss the influence of social policy on children's development, and the insights and skills that developmental psychologists bring to policy and its process. Among their topics are the role of strategic communications in policy advocacy, …
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The Economics of MicrofinanceThe microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy …