Attitudes of low-income parents toward seeking help with parenting: implications for practice

Fifty-two low-income parents were surveyed to determine attitudes toward parenting and help seeking. Although a majority agreed that most parents, even "good" parents, need help or advice about parenting and thought they would seek help with parenting, low-income parents were less likely to believe in or seek out help than those with higher incomes. The most frequently selected sources of help were family, books and videos, telephone help-lines, and friends. The least likely sources of help were child protective services, school personnel, clergy, and social service/counseling agencies. Parent support and education groups were likely sources of support for only one in four low-income parents.     

Experiments with incentives in telephone surveys

In an effort to counter the problem of noncooperation, survey organizations are offering incentives to respondents with increasing frequency, some at the outset of the survey, as has traditionally been done in mail surveys, and some only after the person has refused, in an attempt to convert the refusal. This article reports on a series of experiments carried out over a period of about 2 years with a monthly telephone survey, the Survey of Consumer Attitudes, in an effort to increase response rates or reduce interviewer effort. We report on experiments with prepaid versus promised incentives; advance letters; and advance letters with prepaid incentives; and we also report on the effects of incentives on response quality, sample composition, response bias, interviewer and respondent expectations, and costs.     

互补品天才

安德烈和爱德华当初是怎么想的？ 1900年，就在两兄弟刚刚接管家族设在克莱蒙一费朗市橡胶生意之后不久，他们决定为旅行者出版一本指导手册。在他们的《米其林指南》一书当中，作者提供了大量加油站、酒店、餐厅和观光景点的信息，并配有详尽的地图和旅行提示。该书第一版印刷了35000册，米其林公司免费将其发放给那些感兴趣的读者们。他们的这一做法后来被证明是一个极其天才的举动。     

AFDC/TANF Exits and Re-entries for Families Raising Children with Educational Disabilities

Having a child with a disability is considered a barrier to self-sufficiency among welfare recipients. This study examines the impact of children's educational disability on single-mother families' welfare exits and re-entries for a cohort of children in a metropolitan region in Missouri, who were born between 1982 and 1994, and received AFDC/TANF at least once from 1990 through 2008 (N=4,928). A semiparametric proportional hazards model for recurrent events is used to analyze the relationship between a child's educational disability and family welfare exit and re-entry. Results show that families with children with disabilities (the disability group) are less likely to exit and more likely to re-enter the welfare system than families with children without disabilities (the nondisability group). After the 1996 welfare reform, the welfare exit rate increases more for the disability group than for the nondisability group, while the welfare re-entry rate decreases less for the disability group than for the nondisability group.     

突破大学培育创新人才的三大障碍

牛端在 2 0 0 0年第 4期撰文指出 ,用人单位招聘时最重视的三个条件依次为 :实干精神、综合素质和创新能力。今天 ,学校能否成为培育创新人才的孵化器 ,直接影响到我国经济和社会的发展。影响创新人才培养的三大障碍是 :1.科研与教学的脱节 ,使创新人才的培育缺乏坚实的基石。解决的办法 ,应从制度上保证教师的待遇和社会地位 ,以吸引最优秀的人从事科研和教学。创新产生于脚踏实地的科学研究 ,离开了科研为支撑的教学 ,必陷入照本宣科的境地。 2 .单一封闭的人文、学术生态环境不利于新观点、新思维、新方法的产生。解决的办法是在高校内培…     

领导人哪去了

所有的领导人哪里去了?政界人士与工商界的人们均在提出这个问题。当前,大家都在找寻某个人,希望他能挺身而出,将大家拯救于金融危机之中,或帮助大家解决难以驾驭的外交冲突。克林顿被逼到墙脚美国和俄国的总统,即比尔·克林顿与鲍里斯·叶利钦明显地已经没有胜出的希望。克林顿已经被逼到墙脚。而叶利钦则在此次俄国金融体系崩塌中广泛地失去声望与信任。德国与日本亦未能提     

关于全球化的10个论题

德国康采恩“戴姆勒—克莱斯勒”(Daimler- Chrysler)理事会主席 J.E.斯任普在柏林阿力弗雷得-赫尔哈京 (Alifred- Herhawzin)协会第七次年会上就全球化问题发表了演讲。本译文作了适当压缩