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Murray Research Archive
Studies: 491
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of changes in classroom and family environments on adolescents' achievement-related beliefs, motives, values, and behaviors.

A sample ...

hdl:1902.1/01015
70 downloads + analyses
Updated: Oct 28, 2009
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This study examined the personalities of a group of college women and their interactions with social institutions. The focus was on the relationship between the changes in values and ideas brought about ...

hdl:1902.1/00341
77 downloads
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
Index of African Governance - 2009 Release by Robert I. Rotberg; Rachel M. Gisselquist
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The Index of African Governance is a project to measure and assess the quality of governance across Africa's fifty-three countries. It focuses on performance in five areas: Safety and Security; the ...

hdl:1902.1/13713
68 downloads
Updated: Oct 1, 2009
Index of African Governance - 2008 Release by Robert I. Rotberg; Rachel M. Gisselquist
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The Index of African Governance is a project to measure and assess the quality of governance across the forty-eight countries of sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on performance in five areas: Safety and ...

hdl:1902.1/12705
168 downloads
Updated: Oct 1, 2009
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The project was launched in 1987 to investigate the human consequences of the Farm Crisis that began in the late 1970s and continued to affect rural America up to 1997, a decline more drastic than any ...

hdl:1902.1/10765
69 downloads + analyses
Updated: Sep 16, 2009
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The main purposes of this longitudinal study were to describe and understand the influences of social context on the psychological determinants of behavioral choices and developmental trajectories during ...

hdl:1902.1/01066
1790 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jul 16, 2009
Family Transformations, 1981-1982 by Abigail J. Stewart
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This longitudinal study examined differences among families in the process of divorce and the meanings and experiences of it for individual family members. The families in the study were recruited through ...

hdl:1902.1/00715
17 downloads
Updated: Jun 30, 2009
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In 1951, mothers of 5-year-old children in the Boston area were interviewed about their own and their husbands' parenting practices for a study by Sears, Maccoby, and Levin, Patterns of Child Rearing, 1951-1958 ...

hdl:1902.1/01012
27 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jun 29, 2009
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We acknowledge the contribution of von Stein (2005) in calling attention to the very real problem of selection bias in estimating treaty effects. Nonetheless, we dispute both von Stein’s theoretical ...

hdl:1902.1/12910
142 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jun 23, 2009
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The massive increase in text available in digital formats presents enormous opportunities for social scientists. Yet systematically hand coding a significant share of the available blogs, speeches, emails, web ...

hdl:1902.1/12898
225 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jun 23, 2009