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    Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Working Group on the Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility,National Research Council

    Provides an examination of changes in adolescent fertility, emphasizing the social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.

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    Effective Services for Young Children: Report of a Workshop

    Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Forum on the Future of Children and Families,National Research Council

    Describes the options and steps that could be taken to improve the situation through more effective services to children and families. Many of the leaders in efforts to improve services…

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    Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

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    Understanding Violence Against Women

    Panel on Research on Violence Against Women,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Identifies four areas with the potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence and rape: what interventions are designed to do, whom…

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    Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human Performance

    Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Addresses issues in learning and performance. This book presents theories and findings from a range of research settings: from pilots learning to fly to children learning about physics by throwing…

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    Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior

    Panel on Retirement Income Modeling,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies. This volume covers such behaviors as workers’ decisions…

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    Assessing Policies for Retirement Income: Needs for Data, Research and Models

    Panel on Retirement Income Modeling,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Assesses what we know and recommends what we need to know to estimate the short- and long-term effects of policy alternatives. This book details gaps in data and research, and…

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    America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

    Faith Mitchell,etc.

    Explores the trends among African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the context of a white majority. This volume presents the findings and analysis on racial and social…

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    Measuring Health Performance in the Public Sector: A Summary of Two Reports

    Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    The Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants was established at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its charge…

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    Education for Tomorrow’s Jobs

    Committee on Vocational Education and Economic Development in Depressed Areas,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Deals with the ways in which vocational education can be strengthened to contribute to national education and economic goals. This book discusses changes in the economy and in the nature…

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    Improving Risk Communication: Working Papers

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources,Committee on Risk Perception and Communication

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    Behind the Numbers: U.S. Trade in the World Economy

    Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics,Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Deals with how the systems for collecting and analyzing trade data have fallen behind the times - and presents recommendations for approaches to accuracy and usefulness of these economic data…

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    Improving Data on America’s Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that…

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    Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing

    Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing, National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Academy of Sciences

    Reviews the trends in and consequences of teenage sexual behavior and offers insights on the issues of sexual initiation, contraception, pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and the well-being of adolescent families. This…

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    Understanding and Preventing Violence

    Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Explores the complexity of violent behavior in our society and puts forth a framework for analyzing risk factors for violent events. This book explores such diverse but related topics as…

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    Women’s Work, Men’s Work: Sex Segregation on the Job

    Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues,National Research Council

    Even though women have made substantial progress in a number of formerly male occupations, sex segregation in the workplace remains a fact of life. This volume probes pertinent questions: Why…

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    Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies

    Task Force on Economies in Transition,National Research Council

    Focuses on the interaction between political, social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. This book includes analytic papers, essays by scholars, and an…

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    Nature’s Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment

    Panel on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting,National Research Council

    Recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation’s income and product accounts. This work explores alternative approaches to environmental accounting and addresses thorny issues such as…

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    Performance Assessment for the Workplace: Volume I

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel

    Analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. It includes topics such as the development of performance measures, the relationship between predictor scores…

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    Toward a Health Statistics System for the 21st Century: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council

    The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) convened a workshop on November 4-5, 1999, to identify new directions for health statistics and the implications for health data of changes in the…

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    Preventing Drug Abuse: What Do We Know?

    Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention Research,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Deals with drug abuse prevention and its effectiveness. This book presents: the results of antidrug efforts; the role and effectiveness of mass media in preventing drug use; a profile of…

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    Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures be Included in Social Science Research?

    Committee on Population,National Research Council

    What can social science expect to learn from biological information? This text addresses this issue by questioning what genetic/biological data should be collected, and what ethical and legal concerns could…

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    Work and Family: Policies for a Changing Work Force

    Panel on Employer Policies and Working Families,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Reviews changes in work and family structures and their effects on worker productivity and employer practices. This book presents a range of approaches to easing the conflicts between work and…

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    Quality in Student Financial Aid Programs: A New Approach

    Panel on Quality Improvement in Student Financial Aid Programs,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Focuses on the accuracy of the needs-based award process, this book assesses various measures of system quality and possible alternatives, such as a total quality management approach. It discusses the…

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    Modeling Cost and Performance for Military Enlistment: Report of a Workshop

    Committee on Military Enlistment Standards,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Describes a cost/performance trade-off model useful for illustrating the effects of budget decisions on the quality of expected performance in the military enlisted force. This book discusses technical issues associated…

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    Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education

    Committee on Mandatory Retirement in Higher Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Offers guidance not only for dealing with the elimination of mandatory retirement in higher education, but also for retirement-related issues facing colleges and universities. This book contains analyses of early…

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    Measuring Housing Discrimination in a National Study: Report of a Workshop

    Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Federal law prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of seven protected classes including race. Despite 30 years of legal prohibition under the Fair Housing Act, however, there is evidence of…

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    Under the Influence: Drugs and the American Workforce

    Committee on Drug Use in the Workplace,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

    Examines several major issues such as: the extent and severity of drug use on and off the job; the strengths and weaknesses of methods for detecting drug use through standard…

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    Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs

    Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine

    Looks at the successes and failures of family violence interventions. This book offers recommendations to guide services, programs, policy, and research on victim support and assistance, treatments and penalties for…

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    Valuing Health Risks, Costs and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making: Report of a Conference

    Commission on Physical Sciences,Mathematics and Resources,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

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    Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace: Low Back and Upper Extremities

    Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

    Examines the scientific basis for connecting musculoskeletal disorders with the workplace, considering people, job tasks, and work environments. This work draws conclusions about the likelihood of causal links and the…

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    Placing Children in Special Education: A Strategy for Equity

    Panel on Selection and Placement of Students in Programs for the Mentally Retarded,Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

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    Alcohol in America: Taking Action to Prevent Abuse

    Steve Olson,Dean R. Gerstein,National Research Council,Elizabeth Hanford Dole,United States Department of Transportation

    Alcohol is a killer. One of every thirteen deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. This book takes a look at the problem, and is useful for those in the…

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    Population Dynamics of Senegal

    Working Group on Senegal

    Part of the Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa series, this volume examines key demographic changes in Senegal. It analyzes the changes in fertility and their causes, with comparisons to other…

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    Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions

    Panel on Reproductive Health,National Research Council

    Addressing the design and delivery of reproductive health services, this volume presents lessons learned from past programs and offers principles for deciding how to spend limited available funds. It is…

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    Youth Development and Neighborhood Influences: Challenges and Opportunities

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families

    On January 25, 1996, the Committee on Youth Development of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened a workshop to examine the implications of research on social settings for…

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    Modernizing the U.S.Census

    Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond,National Research Council,Committee on National Statistics

    Examines the traditional US census. This book evaluates several radical proposals that have been made for changing the census, as well as other proposals for redesigning the year 2000 census…

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    A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society

    Committee on the Status of Black Americans,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Drawing on historical perspectives and data, this book examines the many years of change and continuity in the status of black Americans. By studying and comparing black and white age…

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    Performance Assessment for the Workplace

    Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Covers several measurement and analytical issues in technical detail, including: range restriction adjustments, methods for evaluating multiple sources of error in measurement, comparing alternative measures of performance, and strategies for…

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    The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation

    Panel to Evaluate the Survey of Income and Program Participation,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Evaluates changes needed to improve the usefulness and cost-effectiveness of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This volume considers the goals for the survey, the survey and sample…

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    Toward a National Health Care Survey: A Data System for the 21st Century

    Panel on the National Health Care Survey,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,Division of Health Care Services

    Contains an evaluation of the plan developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for restructuring its provider surveys. This work identifies the data needed by researchers and policymakers to…

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    Sharing Research Data

    Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1985-05 Original Publisher: National Academies Original Identifier: NAP:00087 Subjects: Communication in the social sciences Intellectual cooperation Social sciences Communication in the social…

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    Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review

    Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of Pathological Gambling,National Research Council

    Explores America’s experience of gambling. This book examines the issues surrounding the definition of pathological gambling, its co-occurrence with disorders such as alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression; its social characteristics…

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    Sex Segregation in the Workplace: Trends, Explanations, Remedies

    Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues,National Research Council

    How pervasive is sex segregation in the workplace? Does the concentration of women into a few professions reflect their personal preferences, the tastes of employers, or sex-role socialization? This volume…

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    Youth Employment and Training Programs: The YEDPA Years

    Committee on Youth Employment Programs,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    Between 1978 and 1981, the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) funded programs designed to aid disadvantaged youth. Beginning with YEDPA’s inception and lifespan, this report analyzes the data…

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    Who Cares for America’s Children?: Child Care Policy for the 1990s

    Panel on Child Care Policy,National Research Council

    Looks at the barriers to developing a national child care policy, evaluates the factors in child care that are most important to children’s development, and examines ways of protecting children’s…

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    Private Lives and Public Policies: Confidentiality and Accessibility of Government Statistics

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Confidentiality and Data Access

    Explores the seeming conflicts between privacy and data access, an issue of concern to federal statistical agencies collecting the data, research organizations using the data, and individuals providing the data…

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    Enhancing Organizational Performance

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance

    Reviews approaches to organizational change - total quality management, reengineering, and downsizing - in terms of how they affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can be measured, and what…

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