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A History Of Rural, Economic, And Social Policies In China, Sibin Wang Jul 2008

A History Of Rural, Economic, And Social Policies In China, Sibin Wang

Center for Social Development Research

This report reviews major rural, social, and economic policies in China over the past century. These policies are discussed in historical context with a focus on how they responded to social, economic, and cultural changes at each stage. Assessment and analysis of these policies and their implications are provided by the author.


Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment, Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson, Rodrigo Kon, Leandro Bottinnelli, Florencia Cabrera, Marta Estarellas Jul 2008

Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment, Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson, Rodrigo Kon, Leandro Bottinnelli, Florencia Cabrera, Marta Estarellas

Center for Social Development Research

Youth Volunteer Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Assessment


Experience Corps: Changes In Activity Associated With Participation, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Changes In Activity Associated With Participation, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Changes in Activity Associated With Participation


Experience Corps: The Volunteer Experience, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: The Volunteer Experience, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: The Volunteer Experience


The Effects Of Holding Assets On Social And Economic Outcomes Of Families: A Review Of Theory And Evidence, Robert Lerman, Signe-Mary Mckernan Jul 2008

The Effects Of Holding Assets On Social And Economic Outcomes Of Families: A Review Of Theory And Evidence, Robert Lerman, Signe-Mary Mckernan

Center for Social Development Research

The Effects of Holding Assets on Social and Economic Outcomes of Families: A Review of Theory and Evidence


Seed For Oklahoma Kids: Launch Media Report, Center For Social Development Jul 2008

Seed For Oklahoma Kids: Launch Media Report, Center For Social Development

Center for Social Development Research

SEED for Oklahoma Kids: Launch Media Report


Volunteerism And Ngos In Latin America: Elements That Enhanced Long-Term Volunteer Retention, Terrance Jantzi, Fiorella Rojas, Caroline Kroeker-Falconi Jul 2008

Volunteerism And Ngos In Latin America: Elements That Enhanced Long-Term Volunteer Retention, Terrance Jantzi, Fiorella Rojas, Caroline Kroeker-Falconi

Center for Social Development Research

Volunteerism and NGOs in Latin America: Elements That Enhanced Long-Term Volunteer Retention


Dialogues On Assets In Native Communities: Recording A Native Perspective On The Definition And Benefits Of Retaining And Building Assets, Amy Locklear Hertel, Kristen Wagner, John Phillips, Karen Edwards, Jessica Hale Jul 2008

Dialogues On Assets In Native Communities: Recording A Native Perspective On The Definition And Benefits Of Retaining And Building Assets, Amy Locklear Hertel, Kristen Wagner, John Phillips, Karen Edwards, Jessica Hale

Center for Social Development Research

Dialogues on Assets in Native Communities: Recording a Native Perspective on the Definition and Benefits of Retaining and Building Assets


Excluding 529 College Savings Plan Accounts From Oklahoma Public Assistance Asset Limit Tests, Lisa Reyes Mason, Margaret M. Clancy, Soda Lo Jul 2008

Excluding 529 College Savings Plan Accounts From Oklahoma Public Assistance Asset Limit Tests, Lisa Reyes Mason, Margaret M. Clancy, Soda Lo

Center for Social Development Research

Excluding 529 College Savings Plan Accounts From Oklahoma Public Assistance Asset Limit Tests


Access To International Volunteering, Amanda Moore Mcbride, Benjamin J. Lough Jul 2008

Access To International Volunteering, Amanda Moore Mcbride, Benjamin J. Lough

Center for Social Development Research

This analysis examines rates of international volunteering among various demographic groups in the United States using data from the 2005 Current Population Survey. We use logistic regression analyses to address the importance of inclusion. Those most likely to serve overseas are white, highly educated, young, foreign-born individuals without dependent children in the home and not employed full-time. As a type of volunteering implemented primarily through the nonprofit sector, these findings suggest implications for recruitment and retention of volunteers who serve abroad.


Experience Corps: Stipends, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacy Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Stipends, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacy Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Stipends


Experience Corps: Who Are The Members?, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song_Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Who Are The Members?, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song_Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Who Are the Members?


Servicio Voluntario Juvenil En Lationamerica Y El Caribe Un Estido Regional [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson Jul 2008

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil En Lationamerica Y El Caribe Un Estido Regional [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil en Lationamerica y el Caribe Un Estido Regional


Changing Roles Of Parental Economic Resources In Children's Education Attainment, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang Jul 2008

Changing Roles Of Parental Economic Resources In Children's Education Attainment, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang

Center for Social Development Research

We investigate whether the relationship between parents’ economic resources and children’s educational attainment has changed over time by comparing two cohorts from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We examine multiple measures of economic resources, including income, net worth, liquid assets, and homeownership. We employ probit regressions and Chow tests in multivariate analyses. Results show that the associations between parents’ liquid assets and college attendance became significantly stronger among the later cohort, suggesting the increasing importance of liquid assets. of particular interest is a change in the role of negative liquid assets (unsecured debt exceeding savings) in high school graduation: …


Determinants Of Asset Building, Sondra G. Beverly, Michael Sherraden, Min Zhan, Trina R. Williams Shanks, Yunju Nam, Reid Cramer Jul 2008

Determinants Of Asset Building, Sondra G. Beverly, Michael Sherraden, Min Zhan, Trina R. Williams Shanks, Yunju Nam, Reid Cramer

Center for Social Development Research

Determinants of Asset Building


Helping People Act On Their Hopes Rather Than Their Fears: Lessons From Non-Enrollees In The Seed Initiative, Trina Williams Shanks, Toni Johnson, Kerri Nicoll Jul 2008

Helping People Act On Their Hopes Rather Than Their Fears: Lessons From Non-Enrollees In The Seed Initiative, Trina Williams Shanks, Toni Johnson, Kerri Nicoll

Center for Social Development Research

Helping People Act on Their Hopes Rather Than Their Fears: Lessons From Non-Enrollees in the SEED Initiative


Household Assets And Health In China: Evidence And Policy Implications, Baorong Guo, Lin Zhang, Michael Sherraden Jul 2008

Household Assets And Health In China: Evidence And Policy Implications, Baorong Guo, Lin Zhang, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

China’s health care reform of the 1990s has not yielded much success. The market-oriented health system has resulted in declines in fairness of health services and efficiency of investment in the health sector. Further health care reform will be required. Among many options, asset-based policy has demonstrated some potential in domestic policy development. To provide evidence to inform health policy development in China, this study focuses on effects of household assets on health in China. Specifically, the current study examines how household assets may affect health status and how assets differ from income in predicting health status. Using a random …


Experience Corps: Methodology Of Member Outcomes Study, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne, Emily Dessen, Cal Halvorsen Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Methodology Of Member Outcomes Study, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne, Emily Dessen, Cal Halvorsen

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Methodology of Member Outcomes Study


State 529 Matching Grant Program Summary, Margaret M. Clancy, Lisa Reyes Mason, Soda Lo Jul 2008

State 529 Matching Grant Program Summary, Margaret M. Clancy, Lisa Reyes Mason, Soda Lo

Center for Social Development Research

State 529 Matching Grant Program Summary


Experience Corps: Benefits Of Volunteering, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne Jul 2008

Experience Corps: Benefits Of Volunteering, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Stacey Mccrary, Ernest Gonzales, Amanda Mcbride, Song-Iee Hong, Wayne Blinne

Center for Social Development Research

Experience Corps: Benefits of Volunteering


Building Assets From Birth: A Global Comparison Of Child Development Account Policies, Vernon Loke, Michael Sherraden Jul 2008

Building Assets From Birth: A Global Comparison Of Child Development Account Policies, Vernon Loke, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Asset building is a growing theme in public policy, and building assets from birth in the form of Child Development Accounts is now occurring in several countries. This paper provides an overview of the Child Development Account policies in Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Korea, and the proposed policy in the United States. The key elements of inclusiveness, progressivity, coherence and integration, and development are explicated and discussed.


Matched Savings Initiatives In Hungary And Slovakia: Pilot Projects And Future Directions, David Meier Jul 2008

Matched Savings Initiatives In Hungary And Slovakia: Pilot Projects And Future Directions, David Meier

Center for Social Development Research

Matched Savings Initiatives in Hungary and Slovakia: Pilot Projects and Future Directions


Equal Opportunity For All?: Parental Economic Resources And Children's Educational Achievement, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang Jul 2008

Equal Opportunity For All?: Parental Economic Resources And Children's Educational Achievement, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang

Center for Social Development Research

We investigate the roles of parents’ economic resources in children’s educational attainment and test the liquidity constraint hypothesis. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that parents’ liquid assets have significantly positive associations with years of schooling, high school graduation, and college attendance. We find that the relationship between liquid assets and education is non-linear: children from negative liquid asset households have a higher chance of finishing high school but a lower chance of graduating college than those from zero liquid asset households. Results suggest that we should consider assets when seeking to understand educational mobility.


Eitc In Indian Country: Moving Beyond The Safety Net To Asset Building, Kristen Wagner, Amy Locklear Hertel Jul 2008

Eitc In Indian Country: Moving Beyond The Safety Net To Asset Building, Kristen Wagner, Amy Locklear Hertel

Center for Social Development Research

EITC in Indian Country: Moving Beyond the Safety Net to Asset Building


Parental Assets: A Pathway To Positive Child Educational Outcomes, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yeong H. Yeo, Kate Irish, Min Zhan Jul 2008

Parental Assets: A Pathway To Positive Child Educational Outcomes, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yeong H. Yeo, Kate Irish, Min Zhan

Center for Social Development Research

A growing body of evidence suggests parental assets have positive effects on children’s well-being. Using 2004 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study tests the effect of parental asset holding on child educational outcomes, and explores whether this relationship is mediated by parental involvement and expectations. Results indicate that assets are a significant predictor of all child academic outcomes of our study, however income is not a significant predictor for school outcomes when controlling for assets. The mediation analyses show the effect of assets on school outcomes is mediated by two of the three parenting measures: …


Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment, Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson Jul 2008

Youth Volunteer Service In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Regional Assessment, Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Youth Volunteer Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Assessment


Servicio Voluntario Juvenil Na America Latina E O Caribe: Um Estudo Regional; Resumo Executivo [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin American And The Caribbean: A Regional Assesment; Executive Summary], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson Jul 2008

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil Na America Latina E O Caribe: Um Estudo Regional; Resumo Executivo [Youth Volunteer Service In Latin American And The Caribbean: A Regional Assesment; Executive Summary], Amanda Moore Mcbride, René Olate, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Servicio Voluntario Juvenil na America Latina e o Caribe: Um Estudo Regional


Exploring Saving Performance In An Ida For People With Disabilities: Some Preliminary Findings, Margaret Lombe, Jin Huang, Michelle Putnam, Kate Cooney Jul 2008

Exploring Saving Performance In An Ida For People With Disabilities: Some Preliminary Findings, Margaret Lombe, Jin Huang, Michelle Putnam, Kate Cooney

Center for Social Development Research

Asset development policies have been promoted as a means to create a more inclusive “ownership society.” During the past few years, asset building scholarship has begun to focus specifically on marginalized groups including persons with disabilities. Using a sample of Individual Development Account (IDA) program participants (N=376), we examine effects of disability status on IDA saving performance; we also assess variations in saving performance by individual and programmatic characteristics. Our results suggest that disability status, in addition to a number of individual and program characteristics, is associated with saving performance in an IDA. Implications for practice and scholarship are presented.


Asset-Building Coalitions In States: Innovative Coalition Development And Policy Advocacy Strategies Meeting, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn Mcclendon, Jennifer Heffern Jul 2008

Asset-Building Coalitions In States: Innovative Coalition Development And Policy Advocacy Strategies Meeting, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn Mcclendon, Jennifer Heffern

Center for Social Development Research

Asset-Building Coalitions in States: Innovative Coalition Development and Policy Advocacy Strategies Meeting


Assets, Poverty, And Public Policy: Challenges In Definition And Measurement, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, Michael Sherraden Jul 2008

Assets, Poverty, And Public Policy: Challenges In Definition And Measurement, Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement