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In Rural Mali, Small Businesses Are Key to Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development

In early 2011, Pietronella van den Oever, PRB visiting scholar, visited the Malian staff and villagers she worked with in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) rural training project in…

U.S. Parents Who Have Children With More Than One Partner

View webcast (Time: 45 min) The most disadvantaged U.S. parents are also most likely to have children with more than one partner, creating complex family relationships and potentially exacerbating poverty,…

How U.S. Older Adults Provide Care for Their Aging Parents, Adult Children, and Friends

View webcast, “Gender and Intergenerational Transfer of Time Later in Life,” Suzanne Bianchi (Time: 45 min) Most research on the gender gap in unpaid caregiving in the United States has…

Educational Differences in Adult Mortality in the United States

View webcast (Time: 53 minutes) The relationship between education and adult mortality risk is well documented: Individuals with more education generally live longer. On the other hand, there is less…

Alternate Routes to Equity in Higher Education

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During ’22 professor in Demographic Studies, professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and from 1997 to 2002 served as director of the…

The U.S. Decennial Census and the American Community Survey: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

On March 24, 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau released the final 2010 Census redistricting data files for each state that will be used to redraw federal, state, and local legislative…

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