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Schafer, Markus H.; Wilkinson, Lindsay R.; Ferraro, Kenneth F. – Social Forces, 2013
College-educated adults are healthier than other people in the United States, but selection bias complicates our understanding of how education influences health. This article focuses on the possibility that the health benefits of college may vary according to childhood (mis)fortune and people's propensity to attain a college degree in the first…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Children, Higher Education, Advantaged
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Feniger, Yariv; Yuchtman-Yaar, Ephraim – Social Forces, 2010
This research addresses a largely ignored question in the study of terror: who are its likely victims? An answer was sought through analysis of comprehensive data on civilian victims of terror in Israel from 1993 through 2003. The chances of being killed in seemingly random terror attacks were found unequally distributed in Israeli society, but…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Foreign Countries, Risk, Victims of Crime
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Buchmann, Claudia; Condron, Dennis J.; Roscigno, Vincent J. – Social Forces, 2010
The authors welcome and appreciate the comments of Eric Grodsky and Sigal Alon on their article "Shadow Education, American Style: Test Preparation, the SAT and College Enrollment." In their comments, Grodsky takes issue with several important theoretical and methodological aspects of their article and Alon highlights key processes…
Descriptors: Race, Educational Mobility, Test Preparation, College Entrance Examinations
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Grodsky, Eric – Social Forces, 2010
Buchmann, Condron and Roscigno argue in their article, "Shadow Education, American Style: Test Preparation, the SAT and College Enrollment," that the activities in which students engage to prepare for college entrance exams are forms of shadow education, a means by which more advantaged parents seek to pass their privileged status along…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Criticism, Research Problems, Test Preparation
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Sarkisian, Natalia – Social Forces, 2007
Disorganization theories postulate that black men have largely abandoned their familial roles. Using the NSFH data, this article refutes the hypothesis of black men's familial disengagement by focusing on extended family integration. Black men are more likely than white men to live with or near extended kin, as well as to frequently see kin in…
Descriptors: Race, Family (Sociological Unit), Racial Differences, Advantaged