Search Results - "Rossi, Peter H."

The measurement of SES in health research: current practice and steps toward a new approach by Oakes, J.Michael, Rossi, Peter H

“…The resurgence of social epidemiology has yet to induce corresponding research into basic measurement issues. This paper aims to motivate investigators to…”
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Assessing Welfare Reform's Impact by Rossi, Peter H

“…In this essay Peter H. Rossi describes the four major research projects assessing welfare reform, programs that account for more than half the spending in the…”
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Understanding Decisions about Child Maltreatment by Rossi, Peter H., Schuerman, John, Budde, Stephen

“…To understand how decisions are made in abuse/neglect cases by the child welfare system, the authors asked child welfare experts and protective service line…”
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Randomize Groups, Not Individuals: A Strategy for Improving Early Childhood Programs by St.Pierre, Robert G., Rossi, Peter H.

“…Until the past few years, our nation's approach to designing federal programs for preschool-age children lacked coherence and paid little attention to what had…”
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Who Should Get What? Fairness Judgments of the Distribution of Earnings by Alves, Wayne M., Rossi, Peter H.

“…Previous traditions of distributive-justice research assume the existence of a normative structure for making judgments about fairness of allocations of social…”
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Social Science Research and Contemporary Studies of Homelessness by Shlay, Anne B., Rossi, Peter H.

“…This review takes stock of contemporary social science research on homelessness. Research on homelessness in the 1980s has been prompted by the increased…”
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Family and Child Welfare Reconsidered by Besharov, Douglas J, Rossi, Peter H

“…In the issue's final essay, Douglas J. Besharov and Peter H. Rossi summarize the major findings of this issue. The main sources of data they discuss, besides…”
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The Old Homeless and the New Homelessness in Historical Perspective by Rossi, Peter H

“…In the 1950s and 1960s homelessness declined to the point that researchers were predicting its virtual disappearance in the 1970s. Instead, in the 1980s,…”
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Hazardous Waste Facilities: "Environmental Equity" Issues in Metropolitan Areas by Anderton, Douglas L

“…Claims that hazardous waste facilities are more likely to be located in areas with higher than average proportions of minorities and examines the issue using…”
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Decisions on Placement and Family Preservation: Agreement and Targeting by Schuerman, John, Rossi, Peter H., Budde, Stephen

“…Vignettes presented to experts and workers in the child welfare field were used to explore the degree of agreement on decisions to place children in substitute…”
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The Seriousness of Crimes: Normative Structure and Individual Differences by Rossi, Peter H., Waite, Emily, Bose, Christine E., Berk, Richard E.

“…Using ratings of the seriousness of a set of 140 crimes obtained from a household sample taken in Baltimore in 1972, the study explores certain collective…”
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Research Designs for Assessing the USDA’s Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs Outcomes, Part 2: Impact Evaluation of Demonstrations by Lin, Biing-Hwan, Smallwood, David, Hamilton, William, Rossi, Peter H

“…This is the second part of a 2-part article that summarizes a review of research designs for assessing the impact of the USDA’s food assistance and nutrition…”
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The Urban Homeless: Estimating Composition and Size by Rossi, Peter H., Wright, James D., Fisher, Gene A., Willis, Georgianna

“…Although homelessness has been recognized as a serious and growing urban social problem, scientifically acceptable methods for estimating the composition and…”
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Just Punishments: Guideline Sentences and Normative Consensus by Rossi, Peter H., Berk, Richard A., Campbell, Alec

“…The federal sentencing guidelines prescribe ranges of sentences to be given to persons convicted of felonies in the federal criminal courts. The U.S…”
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Saving Academic Sociology by Rossi, Peter H.

“…In this paper, I argue that academic sociology threatens to slip into the very limited relevance of scholasticism. Saving it from such a fate will require less…”
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Three Encounters by Rossi, Peter H.

“…Relates three experiences with the mass media that involved misrepresentations of research on social policy issues. The first incident centered on a project to…”
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Varieties of Normative Consensus by Rossi, Peter H., Berk, Richard A.

“…The empirical study of consensus has long been impeded by lack of an adequately conceptualized appropriate measurement model. Using the study of social norms…”
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Gender and Jobs: Prestige Standings of Occupations as Affected by Gender by Bose, Christine E., Rossi, Peter H.

“…Our main objective is the measurement of prestige for the full range of men's and women's occupations and of gender incumbency effects on prestige; subsidiary…”
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The American Homeless Family Shelter "System" by Weinreb, Linda, Rossi, Peter H.

“…A significant increase in homelessness among families during the past decade has led to the establishment of an extensive family shelter system. Because the…”
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Distributive Justice and Earned Income by Jasso, Guillermina, Rossi, Peter H.

“…This is an empirical exploration of the normative criteria for just distributions of earned income. The results indicate that the fairness of earnings is…”
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