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Papers from 2022

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How Early Nutrition and Foundational Cognitive Skills Interconnect? Evidence from Two Developing Countries, Alan Sánchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan, and Jere R. Behrman

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Late-Childhood Foundational Cognitive Skills Predict Educational Outcomes Through Adolescence and Into Young Adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru, Jennifer Lopez, Jere R. Behrman, Santiago Cueto, Marta Favara, and Alan Sánchez

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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills During Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme, Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, and Jere R. Behrman

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The Impact of the JUNTOS Conditional Cash Transfer Programme on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Does Age of Enrollment Matter?, Douglas Scott, Jennifer Lopez, Alan Sánchez, and Jere R. Behrman

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Communication with Kin in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Megan N. Reed, Linda Li, Luca Maria Pesando, Lauren E. Harris, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Julien O. Teitler

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Resilience, Accelerated Aging and Persistently Poor Health: Diverse Trajectories of Health among the Global Poor, Iliana V. Kohler, Cung Truong Hoang, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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State Immigration Policy Contexts and Racialized Legal Status Disparities in Healthcare Utilization among U.S. Agricultural Workers, Rebecca Anna Schut and Courtney Boen

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Change in Subjective Well-Being, Affluence and Trust in State Governments in India, Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, Katsushi Imai, and Raghav Gaiha

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How Major Risk Factors Influence Mortality Trends in the National Health Interview Survey, Samuel Preston and Yana Vierboom

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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Marriage Change and Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa, 1991-2019, Monica J. Grant and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Change in Subjective Well-Being, Affluence and Trust in Judiciary in India, Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, Katsushi S. Imai, and Raghav Gaiha

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“Reverse Policies?” Reducing the Legal Minimum Age at Marriage Increases Child Marriage Among the Poorest in Mali, Ewa Batyra and Luca Maria Pesando

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Substance Abuse during the Pandemic: Implications for Labor-Force Participation, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Karen A. Kopecky

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Change in Subjective Well-Being, Affluence and Trust in Politicians, Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, Katsushi S. Imai, and Raghav Gaiha

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Work and Family Disadvantage: Mechanisms of Gender Gaps in Paid Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Yasmin Mertehikian and Pilar Gonalons-Pons

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Care Labor Demand Shocks and Inequality: How Childcare Costs Exacerbate Inequality among American Families, Pilar Gonalons-Pons and Ioana Marinescu

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Union Formation, Within-Couple Dynamics, and Child Well-Being in Global Comparative Perspective, Ewa Batyra, Luca Maria Pesando, Andrés F. Castro, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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The Downward Spiral, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Karen A. Kopecky

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Aging and Hypertension among the Global Poor—Panel Data Evidence from Malawi, Iliana V. Kohler, Nikkil Sudharsanan, Chiwoza Bandawe, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Long-Term Care Insurance Financing Using Home Equity Release: Evidence from an Online Experimental Survey, Katja Hanewald, Hazel Bateman, Hanming Fang, and Tin Long Ho

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Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-term Cardiovascular Effects of In-utero Famine Exposure, Alberto Ciancio, Jere R. Behrman, Fabrice Kämpfen, Iliana V. Kohler, Jürgen Maurer, Victor Mwapasa, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Differentiated Egalitarianism: The Impact of Paid Family Leave Policy on Women's and Men's Paid and Unpaid Work, Pilar Gonalons-Pons

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Harnessing the Potential of Google Searches for Understanding Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Before and After COVID-19 Outbreak, Selin Köksal, Luca Maria Pesando, Valentina Rotondi, and Ebru Şanlıtürk

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Same Environment, Stratified Impacts? Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures, and Birth Weight in South China, Xiaoying Liu, Jere R. Behrman, Emily Hannum, Fan Wang, and Qingguo Zhao

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“Not Nearly as Bad”: Social Comparisons and the Debt Experience, Ellen Bryer

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Fewer, Better Pathways For All? Intersectional Impacts of Rural School Consolidation in China’s Minority Regions, Emily Hannum and Fan Wang

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Global Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality (GAPU5M) Site Profiles Series: Maternal and Child Health Surveillance System (MCHSS), China, Francisco Villavicencio, Li Liu, Andrea Verhulst, and Michel Guillot

Papers from 2021

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“Golden Ages”: A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States, Hanming Fang and Xincheng Qiu

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The Heterogeneous Impacts of Natural Disasters on Risk Preferences in Indonesia, Helene Purcell

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A Global Turn in Sociology: Approaching Social Problems from an International Vantage Point, Jerry A. Jacobs and Elinore Avni

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Heterogenous Trajectories in Physical, Mental and Cognitive Health among Older Americans: Roles of Genetics and Earlier SES, Cung Truong Hoang, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler

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Parental Educational Similarity and Infant Health in Chile: Evidence from Administrative Records, 1990-2015, Alejandra Abufhele, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres, and Luca Maria Pesando

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Safer if Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence, Luca Maria Pesando

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The Asian Games, Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes in South China: An Instrumental Variable Approach, Xiaoying Liu, Huazhang Miao, Jere R. Behrman, Emily Hannum, Zhijiang Liang, and Qingguo Zhao

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Changes in Subjective versus Objective Well-Being in India, Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, Katsushi S. Imai, and Raghav Gaiha

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The Role of Public Trust in People's Subjective Well-Being, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

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Family Companionship and Elderly Suicide: Evidence from the Chinese Lunar New Year, Hanming Fang, Ziteng Lei, Liguo Lin, and Peng Zhang

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Change and Variation in Couples' Earnings Equality Following Parenthood, Kelly Musick, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, and Christine Schwartz

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The Effects of Negative Economic Shocks at Birth on Adolescents’ Cognitive Health and Educational Attainment in Malawi, Fabrice Kämpfen, Fatima Zahra, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rachel Kidman

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Curtailing COVID-19 on a Dollar-a-Day in Malawi: Implications for the Ongoing Pandemic, Iliana V. Kohler, Fabrice Kämpfen, Alberto Ciancio, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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The Great Transition: Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Ricardo Marto

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The Health Impacts of Eviction: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Morgan Hoke and Courtney E. Boen

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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes, Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Arindam Nandi, Anjana Sankhil Lamkang, and Ramanan Laxminarayan

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Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Formation over the Life-Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study, Andreas Georgiadis, Liza Benny, Paul Dornan, and Jere R. Behrman

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Family Change and Variation Through the Lens of Family Configurations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres, Luca Maria Pesando, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Frank F. Furstenberg

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Privileged Dependence, Precarious Autonomy: Parental Support Through the Lens of COVID-19, Elena G. van Stee

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Estimating the Effects of Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative, Emily Hannum, Xiaoying Liu, and Fan Wang

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Effect Pathways of Informal Family Separation on Children’s Outcomes: Paternal Labor Migration and Long-term Educational Attainment of Left-Behind Children in Rural China, Wensong Shen, Li-Chung Hu, and Emily Hannum

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Generation-Blindness and the COVID-19 Websites of Highly Selective Universities, Marcus T. Wright

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Health Screening for Emerging and Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler

Papers from 2020

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Occupation-Based Socioeconomic Index with Percentile Ranks, Xi Song and Yu Xie

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Using Administrative Big Data to Solve Problems in Social Science and Policy Research, Xi Song and Thomas S. Coleman

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Path Dependence in Disability, Neha Agarwal, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Subha Mani

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The Impact of an Experimental Guaranteed Income on Crime and Violence, David Calnitsky and Pilar Gonalons-Pons

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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Family, Pilar Gonalons-Pons and David Calnitsky

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Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration Data, Michel Guillot, Julio Romero Prieto, Andrea Verhulst, and Patrick Gerland

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Women’s Employment and Fertility in a Global Perspective (1960-2015), Julia Behrman and Pilar Gonalons-Pons

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Multigenerational Social Mobility: A Demographic Approach, Xi Song

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The Selective Impact of Changes in Age-at-Marriage Laws on Early Marriage: Policy Challenges and Implications for Women’s Higher-Education Attendance, Ewa Batyra and Luca Maria Pesando

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Poverty Transitions, Health, and Socio-Economic Disparities in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha

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Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Maria Sironi, Nicola Barban, Luca Maria Pesando, and Frank F. Furstenberg

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Rural Poverty and Disability in LMICs, Raghav Gaiha, Shantanu Mathur, and Vani S. Kulkarni

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Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: What Is It Good For?, Herbert L. Smith

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The Labor Force Trajectories of Immigrant Women: Intersecting Personal Characteristics and Migration Dynamics, Sandra Florian, Chenoa Flippen, and Emilio A. Parrado

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Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: COVID-19 in the United States, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Iliana V. Kohler, Daniel Bennett, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jill Darling, Arie Kapteyn, Jürgen Maurer, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of Partnership Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ewa Batyra, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Frank F. Furstenberg

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Changes in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Christine R. Schwartz, and Kelly Musick

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Health Screening for Emerging Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler

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The Effects of Negative Economic Shocks at Birth on Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, Fabrice Kämpfen

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Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors, Alberto Ciancio, Adeline Delavande, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler

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The Causal Effects of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling in Urban China, Jere R. Behrman, Yuan Hu, and Junsen Zhang

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After-School Tutoring, Household Substitution and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from Rural China, Jere R. Behrman, C. Simon Fan, Xiangdong Wei, Hongliang Zhang, and Junsen Zhang

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The State of Mental Health Among the Elderly Chinese, Yi Chen and Hanming Fang

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The Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH-MAC), Iliana V. Kohler, Chiwoza Bandawe, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Collin F. Payne, James Mwera, James Mkandawire, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Marital Dissolutions and Changes in Mental Health: Evidence from Rural Malawi, Tyler W. Myroniuk, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler

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The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Karen A. Kopecky

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Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Religion and Mothers in the Discursive Construction of Multicultural Korea, Gowoon Jung

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Changes in Early Labor Market Outcomes Among Young College Graduates in South Korea, Jaesung Choi and Hannah Bae

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Getting the Teacher’s Attention: Parent-Teacher Contact and Teachers’ Behavior in the Classroom, Natalie A. E. Young

Papers from 2019

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Stark Choices: Work-Family Trade-Offs among Migrant Women and Men in Urban China, Menghan Zhao and Emily Hannum

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Does Sorting Matter for Learning Inequality? Evidence from East Africa, Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh H. Dang, and Sam Jones

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The Long-Term Consequences of Family Planning in Old Age: Evidence from China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" Campaign, Yi Chen and Hanming Fang

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Persistence of Non-Communicable Diseases, Affluence and Inequality in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha

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Employment, Aging and Disease in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha

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Trust in Hospitals-Evidence from India, Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha

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Assessing (and Addressing) Reporting Heterogeneity in Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) with an Application to Gender Difference in Quality of Life, Zhiyong Huang and Fabrice Kämpfen

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Non-communicable Diseases and Depression: Evidence from South Africa, Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha

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Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change, Frank F. Furstenberg

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Do Family Privileges Bring Gender Equality? Instrumentalism and (De)Stereotyping of STEM Career Aspiration Among Chinese Adolescents, Ran Liu

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Socioeconomic Attainments and Suicidal Ideation in South Korea: How Are Young Adults Different from Middle-Aged Adults?, Joongbaeck Kim and Soo-Yeon Yoon

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Who Are Asian American Millennials?: Asian Americans Leaving the Parental Home, Phoebe Ho and Hyunjoon Park

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A Tangled Web: The Reciprocal Relationship between Depression and Educational Outcomes in China, Wensong Shen

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Differences at the Extremes? Gender, National Contexts, and Math Performance in Latin America, Ran Liu, Andrea Alvarado-Urbina, and Emily Hannum

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Research Factsheet: Domestic Workers in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Papers from 2018

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Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of the Left Behind in China: Education, Well-Being and Life Opportunities, Emily Hannum, Li-Chung Hu, and Wensong Shen

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A Pilot Study of Uncertainty in Income Tax Forecasts, Andrew Joung, Benjamin Lockwood, and Alex Rees-Jones

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Aging, Disability and Disease in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha