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Why Did People Move During the Great Recession?: The Role of Economics in Migration Decisions.

The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF

Levy BL, Mouw T, Daniel Perez A.
PMID: 28547003
RSF. 2017 Apr;3(3):100-125. doi: 10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.05. Epub 2017 May 10.

Labor migration offers an important mechanism to reallocate workers when there are regional differences in employment conditions. Whereas conventional wisdom suggests migration rates should increase during recessions as workers move out of areas that are hit hardest, initial evidence...

Nutrition, Agriculture and the Global Food System in Low and Middle Income Countries.

Food policy

Popkin BM.
PMID: 24932059
Food Policy. 2014 Aug 01;47:91-96. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.05.001.

The entire food value chain and diet of low and middle income countries (LMICs) are rapidly shifting. Many of the issues addressed by the nutrition community ignore some of the major underlying shifts in purchases of consumer packaged foods...

Painful Passages: Traumatic Experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress among Immigrant Latino Adolescents and their Primary Caregivers.

The International migration review

Perreira KM, Ornelas I.
PMID: 24385676
Int Migr Rev. 2013 Dec;47(4). doi: 10.1111/imre.12050.

Using data from a stratified random sample of 281 foreign-born adolescents and their parents, this study provides data on migration-related trauma exposures and examines how the migration process influences the risk of experiencing trauma and developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder...

Increased energy intake and a shift towards high-fat, non-staple high-carbohydrate foods amongst China's older adults, 1991-2009.

The journal of aging research & clinical practice

Pan K, Smith LP, Batis C, Popkin BM, Kenan WR.
PMID: 25657984
J Aging Res Clin Pract. 2014;3(2):107-115.

OBJECTIVE: We examined trends from 1991-2009 in total energy intake and food group intake, and examine whether shifts varied by age or generation.DESIGN: Longitudinal time series (1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009).SETTING: Nine provinces in China.PARTICIPANTS: Older Chinese...

Bi-national Social Networks and Assimilation: A Test of the Importance of Transnationalism.

Social problems

Mouw T, Chavez S, Edelblute H, Verdery A.
PMID: 25750462
Soc Probl. 2014 Aug 01;61(3):329-359. doi: 10.1525/sp.2014.12192.

While the concept of transnationalism has gained widespread popularity among scholars as a way to describe immigrants' long-term maintenance of cross-border ties to their origin communities, critics have argued that the overall proportion of immigrants who engage in transnational...

Network Structure and Biased Variance Estimation in Respondent Driven Sampling.

PloS one

Verdery AM, Mouw T, Bauldry S, Mucha PJ.
PMID: 26679927
PLoS One. 2015 Dec 17;10(12):e0145296. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145296. eCollection 2015.

This paper explores bias in the estimation of sampling variance in Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). Prior methodological work on RDS has focused on its problematic assumptions and the biases and inefficiencies of its estimators of the population mean. Nonetheless,...

How Much In-Kind Support Do Low-Income Nonresident Fathers Provide? A Mixed-Method Analysis.

Journal of marriage and the family

Kane JB, Nelson T, Edin K.
PMID: 26052162
J Marriage Fam. 2015 Jun 01;77(3):591-611. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12188.

Past child support research has largely focused on cash payments made through the courts (formal support) or given directly to the mother (informal support), almost to the exclusion of a third type: non-cash goods (in-kind support). Drawing on repeated,...

Foiled Aspirations: The Influence of Unauthorized Status on the Educational Expectations of Latino Immigrant Youth.

Population research and policy review

Perreira K, Spees L.
PMID: 26451064
Popul Res Policy Rev. 2015 Oct;34(5):641-664. doi: 10.1007/s11113-015-9356-y. Epub 2015 Mar 07.

Latino immigrant adolescents have the highest high school dropout rates of any race-ethnic or nativity group in the United States. One potential reason for high dropout rates among Latino immigrant youth is that many are unauthorized entrants. These unauthorized...

The Four U's: Latent Classes of Hookup Motivations Among College Students.

Social currents

Uecker JE, Pearce LD, Andercheck B.
PMID: 27066516
Soc Curr. 2015 Jun;2(2):163-181. doi: 10.1177/2329496515579761. Epub 2015 May 03.

College students' "hookups" have been the subject of a great deal of research in recent years. Motivations for hooking up have been linked to differences in well-being after the hookup, but studies detailing college students' motivations for engaging in...

Stoves or Sugar? Willingness to Adopt Improved Cookstoves in Malawi.

Energy policy

Jagger P, Jumbe C.
PMID: 27346912
Energy Policy. 2016 May;92:409-419. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.02.034. Epub 2016 Feb 17.

Malawi has set a target of adoption of two million improved cookstoves (ICS) by 2020. Meeting this objective requires knowledge about determinants of adoption, particularly in rural areas where the cost of traditional cooking technologies and fuels are non-monetary,...

Migration, remittances and smallholder decision-making: implications for land use and livelihood change in Central America.

Land use policy

Davis J, Lopez-Carr D.
PMID: 24273366
Land use policy. 2014 Jan;38. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.001.

No abstract available.

Mobile phone text messages for improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART): a protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials.

BMJ open

Mbuagbaw L, van der Kop ML, Lester RT, Thirumurthy H, Pop-Eleches C, Smieja M, Dolovich L, Mills EJ, Thabane L.
PMID: 23793704
BMJ Open. 2013 May 28;3(5). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002954.

INTRODUCTION: Mobile phone text messaging is emerging as an important tool in the care of people living with HIV; however, reports diverge on its efficacy in improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART), and little is known about which patient...

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