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1. Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy

Description:: In the last half decade, America has expanded educational opportunities and experimented with a variety of educational reforms in an effort to reduce educational inequality. The first part of this dissertation examines the effectiveness of two major education policies aim to reduce educational inequality. Chapter 1 examines whether the expansion...
Keyword:: High School Dropouts, Stressful Life Events, No Child Left Behind, Education Inequality, Social Stratification, and Environmental Risks
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Manyee Wong
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-10-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

2. Loneliness, Stress and Depression over the Transition to Adulthood: Physiological and Interpersonal Pathways

Description:: Loneliness, Stress, and Depression over the Transition to Adulthood: Interpersonal and Physiological Pathways Leah Darrah Doane During the transition into adulthood, youth experience substantial stressful changes as they navigate shifts in their interpersonal, familial, educational and economic domains of life. This dissertation aims to understand how the unique experiences of...
Keyword:: HPA axis, stress, loneliness, interpersonal relationships, and depression
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Leah Darrah Doane
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/14/2018
Date Modified:: 09/14/2018
Date Created:: 2008-07-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation

3. Shaping nurture: Evocative effects of children on their environments

Description:: Understanding how contexts shape child development is a primary goal of human development research and theory. Child effects, or the influence of children on their own environment, may be a key process by which contexts and children interact to shape subsequent development. Yet, child effects have been under-studied in social...
Keyword:: mobility, child care, child effects, home environment, human development, and evocative
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Emily Keller Snell
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/12/2018
Date Modified:: 09/12/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation

4. Antecedents, Consequences and Pathways of Associations between Interparental Discord and Child Development in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: An Examination of Negative Emotionality, Child Cognitive and Socioemotional Functioning and HPA-axis activity

Description:: In three essays, this dissertation examined the associations between child characteristics, interparental discord and various aspects of child development and physiological functioning. In the first essay, using longitudinal, nationally representative data on infants and their families from the early childhood longitudinal study (ECLS-B), results revealed small, but significant associations between...
Keyword:: negative emotionality, interparental discord, child-related conflict, HPA axis, cortisol, and child development
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Patricia Pendry
Owner:: Jason Christ Chandra
Date Uploaded:: 08/30/2018
Date Modified:: 08/30/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation

5. Balancing Work and Family with Less: Employment and Welfare Decisions among Single Mothers of Young Children

Description:: This dissertation presents the results of three studies examining the determinants and consequences of employment among single mothers with infants and toddlers. In the first study, I use nationally-representative survey data to identify the effect of age-of-youngest-child welfare-to-work exemptions on the employment of single mothers with no more than a...
Keyword:: quantitative methods, mixed methods, maternal employment, infants and toddlers,, and welfare policy
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Heather D Hill
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-07-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation

6. The Determinants and Development of Academic and Socioemotional Skills in Middle Childhood

Description:: Middle childhood is an important but often overlooked developmental period. Similarly, a large literature examines the importance of child care as a developmental context, focusing almost exclusively on pre-school child care experiences. Through three related empirical studies, this dissertation aims to address these two gaps in the extant literature. These...
Keyword:: Achievement, Child Care, Socioemotional Development, and Middle Childhood
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Amy E Claessens
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-09-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation

7. Long Journey on a Short Path: Information, Organization, and Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Description:: Two-year colleges are a critical site for the expansion of educational opportunity in the United States. They enroll nearly half of all postsecondary students and are a gateway to higher education for low-income, non-traditional, racial and ethnic minority, and first-generation college students. Degree completion rates in the two-year sector are...
Keyword:: college advising, information and signalling, school-to-work, proprietary colleges, and occupational education
Subject:: Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Ann Elizabeth Person
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 05/21/2018
Date Modified:: 05/21/2018
Date Created:: 2007-03-20
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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4. Antecedents, Consequences and Pathways of Associations between Interparental Discord and Child Development in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: An Examination of Negative Emotionality, Child Cognitive and Socioemotional Functioning and HPA-axis activity

5. Balancing Work and Family with Less: Employment and Welfare Decisions among Single Mothers of Young Children

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1. Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy

2. Loneliness, Stress and Depression over the Transition to Adulthood: Physiological and Interpersonal Pathways

3. Shaping nurture: Evocative effects of children on their environments

4. Antecedents, Consequences and Pathways of Associations between Interparental Discord and Child Development in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: An Examination of Negative Emotionality, Child Cognitive and Socioemotional Functioning and HPA-axis activity

5. Balancing Work and Family with Less: Employment and Welfare Decisions among Single Mothers of Young Children

6. The Determinants and Development of Academic and Socioemotional Skills in Middle Childhood

7. Long Journey on a Short Path: Information, Organization, and Student Success in Two-Year Colleges