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Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013

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The article was published on 2014-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1516 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public health & Health promotion.

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Editor's Choice: Deliberative and non-deliberative effects of descriptive and injunctive norms on cancer screening behaviors among African Americans.

TL;DR: Subjective norms, effects of which are non-deliberative and heightened by racial identity, may be a uniquely robust predictor of secondary cancer prevention behaviors for AAs.
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The Effects of Income on Children’s Health: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income Eligibility under New York State Medicaid

TL;DR: A pattern that suggests that increased income derived from SSI reduces the incidence of early health shocks but does not change how families respond to these shocks is found, which does not find evidence that children’s receipt of SSI affects their mother's health or fertility.
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Pilot Evaluation of a Conservation Corps Program for Young Adults

TL;DR: These limited pilot results suggest that the Conservation Corps offers vulnerable young adults opportunities for education advancement and a possible pathway to criminal desistance, however, education and employment programs should make retention a priority.
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A Market for Work Permits

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the scope for efficiently managing migration using a competitive market for work permits, where host-county workers have the option of renting out their citizenship work permit for a period of their choice, while foreigners purchase time-bound work permits.
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Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World: Gender Differences in Intake Characteristics and Poorer Outcomes Observed for Men:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a U.S. nationwide study on GA and its application in the United States and internationally. And they propose a capacity-building, anti-poverty, group-based intervention, which they call GA-GA.
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Unstable inferences? An examination of complex survey sample design adjustments using the Current Population Survey for health services research.

TL;DR: Findings show that the standard error estimates derived from the public use CPS data perform poorly compared with the survey design-based estimatesderived from restricted internal data, and that the generalized variance parameters currently used by the U.S. Census Bureau in its ASEC reports and funding formula inputs perform erratically.