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Science Daily announces new research by CPC Fellow Glen Elder about mentorship of disadvantaged teens
A new study in Sociology of Education has found that when a teacher mentors a disadvantaged student, the student's odds of attending college nearly doubles. For all teen students, having an adult mentor means a 50 percent greater likelihood of attending college.The study's lead author is Lance Erickson, now a sociology professor at Brigham Young University and formerly a CPC Predoctoral Trainee. Steve McDonald, now a sociology professor at North Carolina State University and formerly a CPC Postd...
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CPC Fellow Philip M. Cohen featured in WRAL-TV story about mothers during the recession
Philip N. Cohen, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center and UNC associate professor of sociology, is featured in a news story on WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh) discussing mothers in the current recession. Cohen is quoted in the text of the story and also appears in the accompanying video.The recession has put increased pressure on mothers, in part because three-quarters of the jobs lost in the recession were jobs filled by men."Recession puts more pressure on mothers," (WRAL-TV, November 4, 200...
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Nature story features CPC's National Children's Study vanguard center in Duplin County, NC
The NIH-funded National Children's Study was the focus of an article
that appeared today in Nature. The reporter, Meredith Wadman, visited
the NCS vanguard center in Duplin County, NC to learn about the study.
The Carolina Population Center implements the study in Duplin County
and in four other counties in North Carolina. See this website for more
information:
http://centers.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/unc/Pages/default.aspx.
Children's study fights to survive (Nature, November 4, 2009...
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Cross-cultural study of wealth and inequality appears in Science; CPC Postdoctoral Scholar David Nolin among research team
Science has
published a landmark cross-cultural study of the intergenerational transmission
of wealth, and how such transmission can lead to persistent inequality in
small-scale societies.
The project, organized by economist Sam Bowles (Santa Fe
Institute) and anthropologist Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (UC Davis), drew on the
combined research of anthropologists working in 21 different field sites.
Quantitative data from these sites were used to estimate the correlation
between p...
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The State of Things (WUNC) reports on African-American Economic Summit, Nov. 1-2; CPC Fellow William A. Darity is a co-organizer
WUNC radio program The State of Things reported on the upcoming African-American Economic Summit, a free event being held November 1-2 at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. Carolina Population Center Fellow William “Sandy” Darity is a co-organizer and will present the morning of November 2.The free public summit will discuss the current recession and its impact on African-Americans and their communities. Topics will include housing, education, labor, wealth, health and incarceration.After the ...
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Durham Herald-Sun announces groundbreaking new research by CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen about international and domestic adoption
Philip N. Cohen, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center and UNC associate professor of sociology, and Rose M. Kreider, Ph.D. of the U.S. Census Bureau, have published the first national study on disability rates among internationally adopted children.The study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, found that children adopted from overseas have disability rates similar to those adopted from within the United States.The Herald-Sun (Durham) published an announcem...
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