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  • Spotlight Research

    China's Floating Population

    by Yao Lu

    The article explores the impact of China’s rapid economic growth and continued industrialization on the people of China's underdeveloped central and western regions. The disparity between the booming coastal metropolises and the rural interior has created a massive movement of migrant laborers know as the “floating population”.  Professor Yao Lu describes her work documenting the lives of these migrant workers, outlining the difficulties they face, and exploring the lives of those who remain in rural China.

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  • Spotlight Grant News

    New Federal Funds Lead to Spike in Grant Requests

    In late February, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) received one-time budget injections as a result of the Congressional American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), more commonly referred to as the economic stimulus package. Later that same month, the Obama administration proposed regular budget in¬creases to both agencies for the 2010 fiscal year. These commitments led to a spike in federal grants applications by ISERP Faculty Fellows.

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  • Spotlight Research

    H&SS Scholars Co-edit Special Issue of AJS

    The American Journal of Sociology published a special issue devoted to the intersection between genetics and sociology. The supplement, published in September 2008, was the collaboration of CHSSP Co-Director Peter Bearman, Sara Shostak, Cohort 2 and Molly Martin, Cohort 1, who co-edited the issue titled  “Exploring Genetics and Social Structure.”

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  • Spotlight Research

    Home Computers Equal More Gaming and Less Studying?

    ISERP Seed Grant Awardees Seek Answers in Romanian Voucher Program

    In the spring of 2006 ISERP Faculty Fellow Cristian Pop-Eleches (SIPA and Economics) and his research partner Ofer Malamud (University of Chicago) were awarded an ISERP seed grant to study the effect of home-computer ownership on  students’ academic achievement.

    Two years later the seed grant flourished into a finished report, The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes, published through the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies Working Paper Series.

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