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Understanding Residential Patterns across Asian Ethnic Groups and U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This paper explores the residential patterns of the six largest Asian ethnic groups – Chinese, Asian Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese – across fifty-seven U.S. metropolitan areas, which are categorized ... -
Unequal at the Starting Line: How Early Learning Experiences and School Capital Influence Stratification in The United States
While the impact of early childhood education on kindergarten readiness is well established, the relationship of such experiences to later life outcomes is not well understood. This dissertation uses longitudinal survey ... -
Unequally Unemployed: Labor Market Stratification After the Great Recession
The Great Recession of 2007-2009 was the most destabilizing recession since the Great Depression. After the mortgage securitization bubble burst in 2007, the Great Recession erased more than half of the stock market ... -
United We Tweet?: A Quantitative Analysis of Racial Differences in Twitter Use
This study is grounded in the perspective that individuals who use Twitter exist within a racialized social structure, and that if handed a flexible platform for communication they may establish different patterns of use. ... -
Unlocking the Black Box of Mental Health Court Case Processing: An Event History Analysis of Extralegal Characteristics & Behavior on Case Revocation
Problem solving courts are a bastion of judicial innovation and pragmatic optimism, however, their structure and case processing dynamics reintroduce high-levels of discretion to the courtroom. Past research indicates that ... -
Urban Displacement, Stress, and Wellbeing in Historically Black Urban Neighborhoods: A Case Study
Given that the majority of the US population lives in an urban area, cities have become production centers, not only for goods and services, but also for national values and norms. As the urban landscape continues to change, ... -
What Makes Unions Strong? A Network Perspective on Union Bargaining Power
(2014-04-30)This paper aims to describe the structural factors which affect the organizational differences in labor unions. Based on Emerson's power-dependence theory, I suggest two axes: dependence and cohesion. Dependence measures ... -
"What's Your Status?" Disclosure of HIV Status Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
(2013-07-25)Disclosure of HIV status is an important factor in negotiating safer sex among MSM. This continues to be a public health concern. In order to make a fully informed decision about using a condom when having sex, both partners ... -
With Conviction: The Politics of Criminal Records Reform
While scholars have charted the extent of exclusions people with criminal convictions face amidst an expanding carceral state, no studies have examined legal and political claims for the restoration of civil rights for ... -
Women's and men's economic roles in northern Viet Nam during an era of market reform
(2002)This dissertation examines men's and women's economic roles during northern Viet Nam's economic reform and transition from socialism to market economy.Viet Nam has experienced great social and economic upheaval in the late ...