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Parental employment and work-family stress: Associations with family food environments

Bauer, Katherine W.; Hearst, Mary O.; Escoto, Kamisha; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 3, pp. 496-504

Parental employment provides many benefits to children's health. However, an increasing number of studies have observed associations between mothers' full-time employment and less healthful family food environments. Few studies have examined other ways in which parental employment may be...

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Healthcare Reform: The US Policy Debate

Cooper, Zack - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

The ability of the next US president to rein in spending on healthcare and improve the productivity of the healthcare system is largely going to determine the country's fiscal future. That is one of the conclusions of the latest in a series of US Election Analyses , published by the Centre for...

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Inequality and opportunity: the return of a neglected debate

Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

During this election period many Americans are feeling angry towards the very rich, especially those working in the financial sector, who helped cause the Great Recession and yet were bailed out by the government. Increases in inequality might be tolerable at a time of growing consumption for...

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Parental employment and children's body weight: Mothers, others, and mechanisms

Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.; Dunifon, Rachel E.; Kalil, Ariel - In: Social Science & Medicine 95 (2013) C, pp. 52-59

A robust body of literature spanning several countries indicates a positive association between maternal employment and child body mass index (BMI). Fewer studies have examined the role of paternal employment. More importantly, little empirical work examines the mechanisms that might explain the...

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L'expertise judiciaire en Amérique du Nord

Labelle, Réal; Charrier, Emmanuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

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Variation in the interpretation of scientific integrity in community-based participatory health research

Kraemer Diaz, Anne E.; Spears Johnson, Chaya R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 134-142

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become essential in health disparities and environmental justice research; however, the scientific integrity of CBPR projects has become a concern. Some concerns, such as appropriate research training, lack of access to resources and finances,...

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Replication issues in social experiments: lessons from US labor market programs

Barnow, Burt S.; Greenberg, David - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 3, pp. 239-252

"When evaluating a pilot or demonstration program, there are risks from drawing inferences from a single test. This paper reviews the experiences of replication efforts from demonstrations using randomized controlled trials in the initial evaluation and the replications. Although replications of...

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An accounting exercise for the shift in life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960

Buttet, Sebastien; Schoonbroodt, Alice - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 3, pp. 253-271

of women to men, and the decline in child-care costs. We find that the decrease and delay in fertility and the decline in …"Life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960 shifted upwards and became flatter. We … calibrate a dynamic life-cycle model of employment decisions of married women to assess the quantitative importance of three …

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An examination of black/white differences in the rate of age-related mortality increase

Fenelon, Andrew - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 17, pp. 441-472

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Comparative Perspectives in Employment Relations Research

Frege, Carola - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 20 (2013) 4, pp. 285-303

This article discusses the historical trajectories of employment research in the U.S. and Germany. Both countries exemplify very different research traditions, which have their origins in the 19th and early 20th century and are shaped not only by the field of inquiry (different national...

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