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SOCIOLOGYAngela Hattery
Charles F. Longino, Jr.
Health and Other Predictors of Expected and Actual Mobility Awarded: $58,801 for the period 6/1/04 to 5/31/05 Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Changing residence after retirement is partly driven by health: good health early in retirement promotes mobility, while poor health later in retirement prevents it. Guided by a behavioral model of migration decision-making, this pilot study aims to determine how well expectations of a move predict an actual move just before and after retirement. Specific aims are to assess the relationship between resource variables, including money, travel experience, and community ties, and both expected and actual mobility; between expectations of moving and actually moving; and whether the net effect of variables predicting mobility depend on gender, labor force status, or racial/ethnic background. The study will use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Its 1992 wave contains measures of resources, travel experience, community ties, and expected mobility. A measure of actual mobility between 1992 and 1994 is available from the second wave. The core of the proposed analysis will employ multinomial and binomial logistic regression to model expected mobility and actual mobility, respectively. The proposed analytical design uses SUDAAN software to account for statistical questions arising from the HRS’s complex sampling design and explores couple-level dynamics that may shape mobility behavior and attitudes. The results will enable more accurate behavioral and demographic predictions when the baby-boom cohort begins to retire in about 5 years and continues for the next 18. Earl Smith This exploratory study seeks to determine the depth and severity of the causes of domestic violence among African Americans, which large-scale, quantitative studies have not been able to capture. Specifically, it aims:
The study addresses a significant gap in the IPV literature; namely, qualitative differences in the ways racial and ethnic groups experience IPV. It is unique in focusing on the perceptions and experiences of both men and women, batterers and the battered. In encompassing men, it moves both empirical and theoretical work on IPV beyond the limits of the “women’s issue.” Until men learn not to batter, a quarter of women in our society will be victims of violence at the hands of their partners. Joseph Soares This study looks at the role of family culture and extracurricular activities in the educational accomplishments of children with at least one parent educated at a college at the top tier of selectivity and prestige. While controlling for other family and individual characteristics, this study examines whether parental cultural patterns, children’s cultural patterns, or a combination of the two statistically explain which families do best at achieving educational reproduction at top-tier colleges. The data will make it possible to test a major scholarly hypothesis on cultural capital and elite family educational reproduction. Ian Taplin This pilot study is designed to evaluate how and to what extent senior managers in two major corporations deal with new sets of regulatory pressures following recent corporate governance controversies. With pressure for greater transparency in administrative routines following passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, July 2002, it is hypothesized that managers will be forced to create more elaborate procedures to maintain the status quo. Building on an earlier demonstration that management decision-making is constrained by self-interested actors (senior managers) who seek to minimize the destabilizing effects of externally mandated change, the project further postulates that neither inertia nor a specific firm-based culture leads to errant behavior, but, instead, the system predisposes managers toward rational self-interest. Change, if it occurs, will therefore remain minimal. If we are to understand why some managers behave badly and illegally, we must analyze how they construct an administrative apparatus that shields them from scrutiny and sustains a broad commitment to such principles throughout the firm. |
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