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Stereotypical depictions of immigrant Mexicans focusing on school dropout and academic failure belie Mexican American youths’ varied pathways into adulthood. Why do some immigrant Mexican youth...

This project will create a Project STAR public use data file.

What out-of-school activities and extracurricular activities in school work best for which youth? What factors move youth into and out of activities? What processes link youth activity involvement...

To support a study that aims to identify how organizations gain the motivation to adopt Youth-Adult Partnerships (Y-AP) in quality ways.

Do non-experimental methods provide a viable alternative to randomized experiments when trying to assess the effects of neighborhood on youth outcomes?

To support a pilot study aimed at informing a larger proposed National Institute of Child Health & Human Development project by collecting middle and high school yearbooks from schools in the...

To support a project aimed at examining what works to evaluate to create positive change in large, public child welfare agencies serving extremely vulnerable, low-income children and youth.

Does the use of a structured, computer-centered reading program in after-school settings affect reading performance? What are the factors that affect the implementation of the intervention?

How does poverty affect youth development in rural areas? What physical and psychosocial factors in children’s homes and communities explain why some children do well while others do poorly?

To support a project that will examine the degree, if any, of affirmative action for men in selective college admissions.

Funds to identify a school district to include in a randomized study of Making Meaning Reading Comprehension program.

What predicts what children understand about the everyday economic world? What is the role of children’s family and community-related experience in the development of their economic understanding?

To contribute to a special investment fund that would support talented and promising scholars as they undertake path-breaking work on research methods, write articles summarizing and disseminating...

Which of the different dimensions of research abstracts are most likely to capture the attention of policymakers?

How can workforce development best support quality in programs for youth?

How do adolescent experiences of daily life change as they transition from the high-school to the post-high school years? How do changes in experiences of daily life relate to changes of emotional...

What are the relationships between children’s health and family daily routines and rituals? What strategies do parents use to construct and maintain family routines and rituals?

Under what conditions do youth develop negative (or positive) social relationships with other youth from diverse social groups?

How do the translating experiences of immigrant youth change over time in relation to their changing linguistic and social competencies, and their families’ changing circumstances?

This project aims to explore the sexual landscape today and its impact on young women: their attitudes, behaviors and the implications of those attitudes and behaviors for life-long relationships,...