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Welfare States and Social Support: An International Comparison
García-Faroldi, Livia - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 697-722
The social support an individual receives is a phenomenon of growing interest, since it influences his or her state of physical and mental health. Intimate relationships (family and friends) are the greatest source of social support and, among them, the partner plays a critical role in providing...
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A Simplified Indicator of Social Well-Being in the United States: Examining the Ecological Impact of Family Formation within a County Level Framework
Porter, Jeremy - In: Social Indicators Research 108 (2012) 3, pp. 421-440
In 1995, a study entitled “Does Marriage Matter?” was published by Linda Waite in the journal of Demography, which was … marriage, and most other analyses of this type, is primarily concerned with the individual level effects of marriage on a … variety of outcomes, little is understood concerning the ecological effect of community marriage rates on levels of aggregate …
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Marital Status and Social Well-Being: Are the Married Always Better Off?
Shapiro, Adam; Keyes, Corey - In: Social Indicators Research 88 (2008) 2, pp. 329-346
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Effect of family structure on life satisfaction: australian evidence
Evans, M.; Kelley, Jonathan - In: Social Indicators Research 69 (2004) 3, pp. 303-349
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The Incompatibility of Materialism and the Desire for Children: Psychological Insights into the Fertility Discrepancy Among Modern Countries
Li, Norman; Patel, Lily; Balliet, Daniel; Tov, William; … - In: Social Indicators Research 101 (2011) 3, pp. 391-404
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From Childhood Deprivation to Adult Social Exclusion: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study
Peruzzi, Agnese - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 1, pp. 117-135
backgrounds experience during their life courses. Moreover, it provides an assessment of whether education is effective in … education is established by measuring the extent to which deprivations in the educational domain directly or indirectly affect …
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Decentralization and the Welfare State: What Do Citizens Perceive?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 2, pp. 411-435
perception of the state of the education system and of health services, by using the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 waves of the … effect of fiscal decentralization on the perception of the state of the health and education system is unambiguously positive …, political decentralization affects citizen’s satisfaction with education and health delivery in different ways. The influence of …
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Getting students to talk: best practices in promoting student discussion
Marks, Michael P. - In: Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science …
With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. In an effort to help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert...
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Teaching graduate research methods
Brown, Mitchell - In: Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science …
With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. In an effort to help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert...
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Teaching controversial topics
Malet, David - In: Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science …
With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. In an effort to help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert...
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