Recent research has indicated that there are long-term consequences of early media exposure. Early exposure to television is related to vocabulary expansion and prosocial development; early exposure is also related to ...

Since the nineties, the enthusiasm for a "rights-based approach" as a development strategy has not only been promoted by human rights experts, but also developmental experts. This approach has become an important factor ...

An in-depth examination of some of the most significant relations between social capital and development in the Salvadoran context. I hypothesize that generalized social trust is a necessary form of positive social capital ...

Tobacco is the single leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and the majority of adults who smoke first tried cigarettes before they were 18 years old. Identifying the factors that encourage children and ...

Food aid is accused of causing labor disincentives, yet little empirical evidence tests this theory. In this paper, I use a panel survey from Bangladesh after the 1998 flood to investigate whether in-kind food aid created ...

The following work contributes to previous research done on youth smoking in an effort to get at who, among our children, is smoking cigarettes. Predicated on the theory that public policy programs can be more effective ...

This thesis poses two central questions about the changing nature of work in an increasingly Internet dominated professional landscape. The first question is whether the Internet impacts the amount of work that employees ...

Recent analyses of economic well-being by race have shifted their focus from income inequality to the wealth gap. Dr. Melvin L. Oliver and Dr. Thomas M. Shapiro's pioneering work in Black Wealth/White Wealth: New Perspective ...

In 2005 11% of households in the United States reported being food insecure at some point during the year. Research into food security over the last several years has expanded to look at personal, social, and health ...

This paper explores the effects on employment outcomes of unearned income (i.e., remittances and social transfer payments) in Bulgaria. Since the late 1980's, Bulgaria has been transitioning from a socialist, command style ...