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Working Papers Listed By Series

09-01     Changes in After-School Program Use: 1995-2005 By: Kathryn Hynes and Emily Doyle

09-02     Co-resident Grandparents and Grandchildren's Academic Performance in Taiwan By: Suet-ling Pong and Vivien W. Chen

Forthcoming in Journal of Comparative Family Studies

09-03     What Would They Do? Childcare under Parental Leave and Reduced Hours Options By: Robert Drago

Revised version of working paper 08-03

09-04     Grade-level and Achievement of Immigrants' Children: Academic Redshirting in Hong Kong By: Suet-ling Pong

Published As: Pong, S. (2009). "Grade Level and Achievement of Immigrants' Children: Academic Redshirting in Hong Kong." Educational Research and Evaluation 15(4):405-425. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

09-05     Big Boys and Little Girls: Gender, Acculturation, and Weight among Young Children of Immigrants By: Jennifer Van Hook and Elizabeth Baker

09-06     Diverging Experiences during Out-of-School Time: The Race Gap in Exposure to After-School Programs By: Kathryn Hynes and Felicia Sanders

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