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03-01 Do High-Stakes Tests Affect Students' Decisions to Drop Out of School? Evidence from NELS By: Sean F. Reardon and Claudia Galindo
03-02 Hong Kong Higher Education, 1981-2001: Public Policy and Re-emergent Social Stratification By: David Post
Published As: Post, D. (2003). "Hong Kong Higher Education, 1981-2001: Public Policy and Re-Emergent Social Stratification." Oxford Review of Education 29(4):545-570. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
03-03 Post-Secondary Education in Hong Kong: Repercussions for Inequality and Civil Society By: David Post
Previously entitled "Higher Education Reform: Repercussions for Stratification and Civil Society in Hong Kong."
Published As: Post, D. (2003). "Post-Secondary Education in Hong Kong - Repercussions for Inequality and Civil Society." Asian Survey 43(6):989-1011. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
03-04 Access to Credit and Women's Work Decisions: An Empirical Study in Rural Malawi By: Hema Swaminathan and Jill Findeis
Published As: Swaminathan, H. and J.L. Findeis (2003). "Access to Credit and Women's Work Decisions: An Empirical Study in Rural Malawi." Journal of Population 9(1):1-49. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
03-05R Sources of Educational Inequality: The Growth of Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Test Score Gaps in Kindergarten and First Grade By: Sean F. Reardon
Revised version (June 2003) of working paper 03-05, "Sources of Inequality: The Growth of Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Test Score Gaps in Kindergarten and First Grade"
03-06 Gender and Intergenerational Transfer of the Farm: Its Influence on Multiple Job-holding and On-farm Decision-making Among U.S. Farm Women By: Jill L. Findeis and Hema Swaminathan
03-07 Immigrant Children's School Performance By: Suet-ling Pong
03-08 Insights from Parity Status Life Tables for the 20th Century U.S. By: Robert Schoen
Published As: Schoen, R. (2006). "Insights from Parity Status Life Tables for the 20th Century U.S.." Social Science Research 35(1):29-39. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
03-09 A Life Course Model of Race Disparities in Men's Mortality: The Role of Childhood Social Conditions By: David Warner and Mark D. Hayward
Published As: Warner, D. and M.D. Hayward (2006). "Early-Life Origins of the Race Gap in Men's Mortality." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47(3):209-226. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
