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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Socioeconomic mobility"”.
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Early parental loss, socioeconomic stressors, and health in later life: Evidence for gender disparity
… oldest old; (2) the effect of intergenerational socioeconomic mobility on cognitive and subjective health in advanced age; and (3) the effect of different dimensions of socioeconomic status and perceived financial strain on subjective health in later life. Data were derived from the 2002 and 2005 …
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Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?
… will advance our community’s battle for socioeconomic mobility. In this study the word education will represent the sharing of information within urban communities. This website will take a detailed look at the power of ownership, community organizations, and local businesses through …
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Becoming an Ally: Multi-family Group Therapy Pilot with Low-income Families
… support directly impacts a family’s chances for socioeconomic mobility. Multi-family group therapy (MFGT) offers an effective vehicle for increasing resilience and social support. This dissertation examines the link between family resilience and poverty and presents an ecological, …
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Herstory: intergenerational transformational learning in upwardly mobile African American women
… American women have succeeded in achieving socioeconomic upward mobility. Their ability to defeat the odds has drawn attention to their patterns of adaptation and the process by which transformative experiences evolve. There is a strong need for qualitative research focusing exclusively on …
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Flood Modeling and Community Engagement in Giles County, Virginia
… more likely to live in floodplains and have less socioeconomic mobility. This thesis takes a two-pronged approach to evaluating flood risk. First, a flood risk model that identifies areas of high runoff in Giles County, Virginia was developed. The model accounts for land cover, soil type and …
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Nigerian Pidgin: The Identity of a Nigerian Away from Home
… NP. Younger speakers prioritize English for socioeconomic mobility and integration into Canadian society, while middle-aged and older speakers use NP more frequently as a cultural marker. Contrary to expectations based on covert prestige (Trudgill, 1972), female speakers expressed more …
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The Georgia Project: A Binational Attempt to Reinvent a School District in Response to Latino Newcomers
… that have limited Hispanic school success and socioeconomic mobility elsewhere. Crucially, it challenged existing distributions of power, which Sarason (1990) said was an essential condition of viable educational reform. However, the Georgia Project risked not realizing its promise for several …
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Ageing and Downward Mobility in Later Life: The Negotiation of Life Chances by Vulnerable Older Persons in Singapore
… the post-retirement years have entailed downward socioeconomic mobility due mainly to the loss of earning capacity, lack of support, and higher financial precarity. Using primary data obtained from qualitative interviews with 36 vulnerable older men and women from the three major ethnic groups in …
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Essays on housing, education, and inequality
… of college graduates and improving individual socioeconomic mobility, urban revitalization, and national economic competitiveness.
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Classification with noisy labels : "Multiple Account" cheating detection in Open Online Courses
… Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to enhance socioeconomic mobility through education. Yet, the viability of this outcome largely depends on the reputation of MOOC certificates as a credible academic credential. I describe a cheating strategy that threatens this reputation and holds the …
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New directions for assisted housing mobility in America
Assisted housing mobility programs aim to help low-income families leverage tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) to move to areas that provide basic ingredients for security and socioeconomic mobility. Although attractive in principle as a way to compensate for the uneven geography of risk and …
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Topics in Selective Migration and Economic Assimilation of New Immigrants
… to a distinctive academic culture and their socioeconomic status (SES), but ignore the importance of the relative attainment of parents formed in the pre-immigration context (i.e., the high relative educational attainment of parents compared to their non-immigrant counterparts in sending …
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Building a diverse health professions workforce? Changes in enrollment and completion among underserved populations in grant supported health professions pathways
… International, 2014), and j) and improved socioeconomic standing (Baum et al., 2013; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2013). Moreover it is argued that when human capital investments are made in underserved populations they have the highest potential for economic and …