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Building Mental Health Research Capacity in Kenya: a South-North Collaboration
This paper describes a mental health capacity-building partnership between the University of Nairobi (UON) and the University of Washington (UW) that...
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The Obligation to Volunteer as Fair Reciprocity? Welfare Recipients’ Perceptions of Giving Back to Society
Dutch citizens on welfare have to volunteer at Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in return for their benefits. Through applying the ‘worlds of...
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Financial Literacy, Human Capital and Stock Market Participation in Europe
Households’ stock market participation has significant effects on savings and on an economy’s financial development and performance. Yet...
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Randomized Controlled Trials in Substance Abuse Treatment Research: Fundamental Aspects and New Developments in Random Assignment Strategies, Comparison/Control Conditions, and Design Characteristics
Although not without their critics and limitations, randomized controlled trials (RCT) in clinical research are widely considered the highest...
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Nigerian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Contemporary Ghana: Insights on Locational/Sectoral Niches and Inter-Generational (Dis)Continuities
Scholarship on immigrant entrepreneurship tends to focus on those in the developed world. In this paper, I attempt to shift the balance by focusing...
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Good Grandfathers Have a Partner
The study reported here shows that having a partner in one’s older years increases individual capacity for involvement with grandchildren, for...
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Daten und Methoden
Im Anschluss an die vorherigen theoretischen Herleitungen widmet sich dieses Kapitel den empirischen und methodischen Grundlagen für die Analyse des...
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“Shouting it Out”: Religion and the Development of Black Gay Identities
Using an intersectional framework, this paper analyzes the behavioral and interactional responses to anti-gay religious teachings among young Black...
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Bis dass der Tod euch scheidet?
Stirbt ein Kind, werden die Eltern mit großen Belastungen konfrontiert. Vor allem in der ersten Zeit nach dem Tod des Kindes ist die Trauer oft mit...
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Corridor development in Gauteng, South Africa
The development corridor concept has been regarded as an important development instrument in spatial planning and geography for many decades....
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Oscar Wilde in Singapore: Ambivalence, Enforcement, and the Criminalization of Homosexuality
The city state of Singapore, which recently celebrated 50 years of independence, still curiously retains a nineteenth century colonial penal code...
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Assessing Water Poverty in China Using Holistic and Dynamic Principal Component Analysis
The Water Poverty Index (WPI) expands the analysis of China’s water crises from hydrology to a broader focus on integrated water resources management...
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Joint assessment of the latent trait dimensionality and observed differential item functioning of students’ national tests
Students’ assessment tests are routinely validated through item response theory (IRT) models which assume unidimensionality and absence of observable...
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Funding Strategies for Population Researchers: Perspectives from the National Institutes of Health
The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the application and funding process at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We target our...
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Daten und Methoden
Die Unterstützungsmuster zwischen Müttern und Vätern und ihren erwachsenen Töchtern und Söhnen werden mit den Daten des Survey of Health, Ageing and...
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The Greco–Roman Period
After the Macedonian conquest, Egypt was under the Greek domination for three centuries (332–30 B.C.). Ptolemaic Egypt is really a part of the...
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A Longitudinal Study of Well-Being of Older Europeans: Does Retirement Matter?
We examine determinants of financial and subjective well-being, in particular poverty and depression, among older individuals in Europe. We do so...
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Support to the Elderly and Caring Regimes: An Analysis of Patterns of Informal Support and their Determinants in Six European Countries
Recent social, demographic and policy changes have led scholars and policy makers to pay increasing attention to the evolution of care systems in...