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 the mid-1970s. As part of PRB’s 2011-2012 Policy Seminar series, she discussed her recent research on the project’s results, which continue to be economically and…

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View webcast (Time: 48 minutes) American families have changed dramatically in recent years. More children are living with single parents and more mothers are working. As a result, stay-at-home mothers, once the norm, have become increasingly rare. These changes have profound implications for the role of work-family policies in promoting child well-being. As part of PRB’s…

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Immigration in the United States is a debated and much-researched topic. What are the social and economic effects of immigration on the United States? On the one hand, immigration leads to displacement of jobs. On the other hand, immigrants create economic demand and growth. In this video, PRB president Bill Butz talks with Charles Hirschman,…

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Transcript of Questions and Answers Michelle Sparkman Renz: What industries are you observing women juggling? Do you have information about the educational attainment of Women and Men and their balance? Specifically, MBAs or those with business degrees in the workforce? Is there any difference of “intensity of balance” so to speak? Suzanne M. Bianchi: We…

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