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the two studies participation in the program reduced total arrests during the intervention period by 28–35%, reduced …
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-term incentives to reinforce a minimum degree of mandatory participation. The program began in 2001 for entering Grade 9 students … projects. In all three locations, participation rates quickly rose, to more than 85 percent, even though parents and students …
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Statistical risk factor models are often proposed for screening high-risk children to participate in early intervention programs. Recent contributions to the program evaluation literature demonstrate the need for incorporating judgments about relative importance of false positives versus false...
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the effects of participation in the Head Start program on Latinos. We find that large and significant benefits accrue to …
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programming participated, with the average participant attending 13 sessions. Program participation reduced violent-crime arrests …
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Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their … interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation through these committees: providing information, training community members …
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We analyze participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs) in a dynamic game where countries pollute and … participation is feasible. Participation becomes attractive because only large coalitions commit to long-term agreements that …
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participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these … political participation, with one additional newspaper increasing both presidential and congressional turnout by approximately 0 …
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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals … political participation. We also show that strong family ties appear to be a substitute for generalized trust, rather than a … complement to it. These three constructs-civic engagement, political participation, and trust- are part of what is known as …
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Identifying the role of intrinsic, ideological motivation in political behavior is confounded by agents' consequential aims and social concerns. We present results from two experiments that implement a methodology isolating Pakistani men's intrinsic motives for expressing anti-American ideology,...
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