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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Public and Social Welfare"”.
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THE SEASONALITY OF PATHOLOGY: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
… seasonal periodicity of a number of different social pathologies, including suicide, mortality resulting from disease, the onset of physical illness, and criminal behavior. Using time-series data from the United States, for 132 consecutive months between 1965-1975, it is found that virtually …
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Describing Human Resource Development in Illinois Social Service Organizations
… (HRD) profile of three different Illinois social service organizations (ISSOs). Surveys were sent to the director, president, or chief executive officer in ail Illinois homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, and child crisis centers to describe the HRD profiles of their …
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Studying Permanency Decision Making
Decision-making in child welfare has been an issue of concern for some time. A study of 28 reunification and 24 adoption and guardianship decisions was conducted to explore the factors considered important by child welfare professionals when making these decisions. Factors influencing decision …
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The Impact of Supervisory Behavior on Permanency Rates for Foster Children in a Child Welfare Context
… characteristics such as education, empowerment, and experience did not act as mediators of supervisory characteristics and behaviors. The moderating variables of average case load and type of foster care, either regular or kinship, predicted significant variance whereas the measures used to …
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Foster Care Placement Decisions: Is Race a Factor
… were analyzed using logistic regression analysis and Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. Data revealed that the number of investigator home visits, the number of other investigator contacts, the number of previous indicated allegations, and infancy were the strongest predictors of …
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Promoting Stability and Well -Being Among Families Who Adopt Children Out of Foster Care: Examining the Role of Formal and Informal Support
… for adoptive families are conceptualized and provided. Whereas traditional models of adoption support tend to be short-term, crisis-oriented and agency-focused, this study highlights the need for an ecologically-based model of adoption support that takes into account the evolving needs of …
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Agricultural Environmental Risk and Rural Community Culture
… the overall study contributes to an understanding of the process by which rural communities solve an environmental problem, specifically, when the source of contamination is agricultural, and community members are familiar with and even identify with farming activities as being vital to the …
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Access to Healthcare in a Free Clinic Population: What Are the Barriers
… study examined the barriers to health care and the levels of access to health care that were achieved by a convenience sample of people who were seeking health care at a free clinic in Champaign, Illinois during the summer of 2006. Methods. Survey of a convenience sample of 131 people which …
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An Analysis of Medicare: How Well Is It Serving Its Constitutencies
… continue. These biases need to be exposed and removed so that all elderly receive equitable care.
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Essays on Applied Economics
… it stems from signaling by low income/high aid and high income/low aid families. Family aid is found to have a positive impact on the probability of attending a four-year college, though this is likely also a result of signaling. In the second analysis, persistence through till their sophomore …
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Idiosyncratic Income Shocks, Access to Credit, and Households' Welfare in an Agrarian Economy: Micro -Econometric Studies on Rural Households in Bangladesh
… portfolio selection, input fixity, safety first, and learning and farmers' experimentation . The validity of these theories is empirically investigated for farm households in Bangladesh. Our empirical results show that the theory of input fixity, resulting from the lack of access to credit, is the …
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Assessing Word Learning: The Use of Dynamic Measures
… the participants in the high-risk, low-risk and language disability groups, not just on the static measures of vocabulary, but on almost every measure. This finding indicated that by first grade, measures of underlying aptitude and ability are also affected by environmental variables. …
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'For the Glorious Privilege of Being Independent': Friendly Societies and Mutual Aid in Great Britain, 1870--1910
… principles when the 1908 Old Age Pensions Act and 1911 National Insurance Act circumscribed their role. In 1946, they found themselves completely unable to counter the Attlee government's plan to eliminate their role as ""approved"" insurance providers under the National Insurance Act, and they …
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Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880--1930
… Dakotas, northern Illinois, northern Michigan, and northwestern Iowa. The structure of agricultural production, especially in the wheat belt, and the structure of the labor market for unskilled laborers are detailed. The origins and identity of laborers, variously known as ""floaters,"" …
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Essays on Welfare Reform and Child Support Enforcement: Evidence From State Administrative Data
Since 1996 welfare reform proclaimed a substantial cutback in welfare benefits, state-initiated child support enforcement has gained increasing attention as a policy alternative for the poor single-parent households. This dissertation assesses the effect of child support enforcement on low-income …
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Race to the Bottom or Move to the Middle? Globalization and Welfare Regime Transformation in the Developing World
My findings demonstrate that the variations of social welfare systems in the developing world are rooted in the conflicting dynamics of industrialization and globalization. Industrialization in the developing world has an expansionary effect on welfare expenditures as it entails risks that fuel the …
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"What Do We Know About Knowledge? Citizen Competence, ""Psychological Realism"" and Political Information"
… knowledge can result from constructed judgments, and, like attitudes or values, knowledge can comprise organized structures and systems. Second, though scholars typically assume that ""more knowledge is better,"" more knowledge can sometimes have undesirable effects. Incorrect ""misbeliefs"" can …
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