While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and the news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in …
This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
This dissertation focuses on community context using metrics related to health. It aims to make contributions to the neighborhood effects literature. This literature has found …
This dissertation consist of three chapters devoted to topics in Demography and Economic Inequality. The first chapter examines the impact of demographic change on household …
This dissertation explores the institutional and cultural origins of economic development in the long run and seeks to answer some of the important questions of …
This paper addresses one basic question about separated children: why do children separate from their families? We examine this question in the context of South …
The patriarchal Italian father surrounded by his many bambini hardly exists anymore in today's Italy. Although stereotyped as proud of their traditions and ingrained in …
My dissertation uses the lens of migration to examine the relationship between mobility and migrant social networks for the black population of South Africa. It …
This dissertation consists of three chapters studying health, human capital, and innovation in the United States. In the first chapter, I show evidence that recent …
Income inequality has risen steadily since the mid-20th century, while the current concentration of wealth in the hands of the 0.1% rivals that of the …
Research on nationwide racial/ethnic disparities in children’s blood lead levels (BLL) have documented that Black children have presented the highest mean BLL since the 1970s. …
Children in developing countries face a myriad of hardships including poverty, household economic shocks, and high disease burden. These adverse conditions curtail children’s human capital …
