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Working Papers Listed By Series

08-01     The Role of School Upward Mobility of Disadvantaged Immigrants' Children By: Lingxin Hao (Johns Hopkins University) and Suet-ling Pong

This working paper has been withdrawn and is no longer available.

08-02     The Parenting of Infants: A Time Use Study By: Robert Drago and Ya-Ning Lee

08-03     What Would They Do? Childcare under Parental Leave and Reduced Hours Options By: Robert Drago and Ya-Ning Lee

Please see revised version: working paper 09-03

08-04     How Diverse Are the Suburbs? By: Matthew S. Hall and Barrett A. Lee

Forthcoming in Urban Studies

08-05     Predicting Post-2000 Welfare-to-Work Transition: Individual and Family, Life Course, Work and Welfare Histories, State Welfare Rules, and State Economic Effects By: Shelley K. Irving, Deborah Roempke Graefe and Gordon F. De Jong

08-06     Assimilation or Isolation? The Case of Mainland Chinese Immigrant Students in Hong Kong By: Suet-ling Pong and Wing Kwong Tsang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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