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601. Publications & Writing
The Development Imperative: Toward a People-Centered Approach
This volume emerges from the first annual International Forum for Development (IFD), held in New York City on October 17-19, 2004. Amidst growing dissatisfaction with development strategies that have failed to produce adequate rates of growth or to distribute resources equitably,…
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602. Publications & Writing
The Development of Home Town Associations in the United States and the Use of Social Remittances in Mexico
This paper examines the development of Mexican Hometown Associations (HTA) in the United States and the use of their social remittances in Mexico. Money remittances sent by individuals, households, and HTAs may serve as an indirect engine of regional economic development and also…
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603. Publications & Writing
The Effect of Emigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Sender Households: A Longitudinal Approach Using Data from Nicaragua
This paper uses panel data from two large, nationally-representative household surveys in Nicaragua (1998 and 2001) to examine the impact of international migration on labor market participation and poverty. With panel data, the author is able to control for selectivity by usin…
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604. Publications & Writing
The Effects of Migration on Child Health in Mexico
This paper investigates the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a 1997 nationally representative demographic survey. To correct for the endogeneity of migration status, the authors use historic migration networks -- 1920s, state-level…
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605. Publications & Writing
The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
What is the best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, managers, and employees? These questions are being hotly debated as scandals and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The standard assumption is that gl…
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606. Publications & Writing
The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences
Daedalus, Number 129, Volume 4, Fall 2000. Sponsored by the Working Group on Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law.
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607. Publications & Writing
"The Enduring Idea of the Congo: Public Attitudes, the Nation, and the State," in Borders, Nationalism, and the African State
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608. Publications & Writing
The Formation of Interdisciplinary Scientists: You'll know it when you see it
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609. Publications & Writing
The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century
In the third decade of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, women and particularly young women and girls have become a growing proportion of those affected and infected. What are the reasons for this growing “feminization” of the HIV and AIDS epidemic? Moreover, how and why is the resp…
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610. Publications & Writing
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are s…
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