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Poverty And Fertility In The American South, Leonard M. Lopoo
Poverty And Fertility In The American South, Leonard M. Lopoo
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
This project first reports descriptive evidence of the characteristics of mothers in the American South and compares them to mothers in other regions of the country. Women in the South (and West) tend to have their children at younger ages than those in the Midwest and Northeast. Mothers in the South (and West) also have much lower levels of education and are more likely to be African American or Hispanic compared to women in the Midwest and Northeast. Next, this paper attempts to link the characteristics of the mothers in the American South to the high rates of poverty there. …
Poverty, Race And The Contexts Of Achievement: Examining Educational Experiences Of Children In The American South, Maryah Stella Fram, Julie Miller-Cribbs, Lee Van Horn
Poverty, Race And The Contexts Of Achievement: Examining Educational Experiences Of Children In The American South, Maryah Stella Fram, Julie Miller-Cribbs, Lee Van Horn
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
This paper reports findings of a study examining child-, classroom-, and school-level factors that effect academic achievement among public school children in the South. Using ECLS-K data, we compare and contrast the learning environments in high/low minority and high/low poverty schools. A sizeable minority of Southern children attend schools that are race and/or class segregated; on multiple dimensions these schools are less desirable than are schools attended by more privileged children, and children attending these schools have lower levels of academic achievement. Results from 3-level random intercepts models show that a range of child and family factors, as well as …
Fiscal Policy And Property Values, William Hoyt, John Garen
Fiscal Policy And Property Values, William Hoyt, John Garen
CBER Research Report
Excerpt from the executive summary:
The purpose of this study is to inform on the current state of knowledge of the economics profession of the impacts of state and local taxes on property values. Our goal is also to suggest how to interpret some of the findings of this literature as well as to provide some conceptual background to assist in interpreting these findings.
Fiscal Policy And Local Economic Development, William Hoyt, John Garen
Fiscal Policy And Local Economic Development, William Hoyt, John Garen
CBER Research Report
No abstract provided.
Kentucky Annual Economic Report 2005, John Garen, William H. Hoyt, Glenn C. Blomquist, Devanathan Sudharshan, Roy A. Sigafus
Kentucky Annual Economic Report 2005, John Garen, William H. Hoyt, Glenn C. Blomquist, Devanathan Sudharshan, Roy A. Sigafus
Kentucky Annual Economic Report
No abstract provided.