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Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust by Michael, R

“…Although Christianity's precise influence on the Holocaust cannot be determined and the Christian churches did not themselves perpetrate the Final Solution,…”
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Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children by Desai, Sonalde, Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, Michael, Robert T.

“…This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment of children's…”
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US National Children's Study [with Response] by Michael, Robert T., O'Muircheartaigh, Colm A., Savitz, David A., Ness, Roberta B.

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Design priorities and disciplinary perspectives: the case of the US National Children's Study by Michael, Robert T., O'Muircheartaigh, Colm A.

“…The National Children's Study (NCS), which was undertaken in 2000 by collaboration between several US federal government agencies, is one of the largest and…”
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Sexual capital: an extension of Grossman’s concept of health capital by Michael, Robert T.

“…This essay extends Grossman’s concept of health capital to the domain of sexual behavior. Two components of “sexual capital” are discussed, both pertaining to…”
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Children’s cognitive skill development in Britain and the United States by Michael, Robert T.

“…This paper compares the cognitive test scores of children in Great Britain and the United States in vocabulary, reading, mathematics, and memory of words and…”
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Private sexual behavior, public opinion, and public health policy related to sexually transmitted diseases: a US-British comparison by Michael, R T, Wadsworth, J, Feinleib, J, Johnson, A M, Laumann, E O, Wellings, K

“…The purpose of this study was to characterize sexual behavior and opinions about sex in the United States and Britain; implications are discussed for effective…”
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Monitoring AIDS and Other Rare Population Events: A Network Approach by Laumann, Edward O., Gagnon, John H., Michaels, Stuart, Michael, Robert T., Schumm, L. Philip

“…This paper replicates and extends an earlier attempt to use data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to track the distribution of AIDS across demographic…”
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The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort by Michael, Robert T., Pergamit, Michael R.

“…This essay describes the new National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97) that is the data set used in the articles in this volume. It briefly…”
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Measuring Poverty in the NLSY97 by Hill, Carolyn J., Michael, Robert T.

“…Using data from the NLSY97, we construct two measures of poverty using the official U.S. definition and the National Research Council (NRC) definition. We…”
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Money illusion: The importance of household time use in social policy making by Michael, Robert T

“…Discusses the reasons for & the implications of the fact that social policy making does not adequately consider time use or its products. This "money illusion"…”
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Entry Into Marriage and Parenthood by Young Men and Women: The Influence of Family Background by Michael, Robert T., Tuma, Nancy Brandon

“…We investigate the influence of family background on early entry into marriage and parenthood among white, Hispanic, and black men and women ages 14 to 22 in…”
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Why So Many Children Are Poor by Betson, David M., Michael, Robert T.

“…According to the official U.S. measure of poverty, in 1995 the child poverty rate in this country was nearly 21%, compared with an adult poverty rate of 11%…”
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An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability by Becker, Gary S., Landes, Elisabeth M., Michael, Robert T.

“…This paper focuses on the causes of marital instability. Section I develops a theoretical analysis of marital dissolution, incorporating uncertainty about…”
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Consequences of the Rise in Female Labor Force Participation Rates: Questions and Probes by Michael, Robert T.

“…This paper discusses three independent inquiries into consequences of the rise in women's labor force participation rate (LFPR) in the United States since…”
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Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone: 1950-1976 by Michael, Robert T., Fuchs, Victor R., Scott, Sharon R.

“…The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate…”
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Family Size and the Distribution of Real Per Capita Income by Lazear, Edward P., Michael, Robert T.

“…Per capita income is used as an explanatory variable with great frequency in theoretical and empirical analyses, and its size distribution is one of the…”
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Education and the Derived Demand for Children by Michael, Robert T.

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Education in Nonmarket Production by Michael, Robert T.

“…Since an investment in human capital yields a return through time spent in the labor market, it may also yield a return through time spent in productive…”
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Youth Employment: Does Life Begin at 16? by Michael, Robert T., Tuma, Nancy Brandon

“…Theoretical economic models, official labor force statistics, and most empirical studies of young workers disregard employment experience of students under age…”
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