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  • UNDER THE GUN
    PETER H. ROSSI
    In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States. The purpose of the project is best described as a "sifting and winnowing" of the claims and counterclaims from both ...

    $1,360.00

  • THE EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS
    ANDREW M. GREELEY / PETER H. ROSSI / STEPHEN M. KRASON
    First Published in 2017. The Education of Catholic Americans was a famous, comprehensive study of the effects of Catholic education in America by two very wellknown, heavily published sociologists, Fr. Andrew M. Greeley and Peter H. Rossi. The book was one of many seminal studies of different aspects of life and groups within American society sponsored by the National Opinion R...

    $1,160.00

  • MONEY, WORK, AND CRIME
    PETER H. ROSSI / RICHARD A. BERK / KENNETH J. LENIHAN
    Money, Work, and Crime: Experimental Evidence presents the complete details of the Department of Labor’s $3.4 million Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP), a large-scale field experiment which attempted to reduce recidivism on the part of ex-felons. Beginning in January 1976, some prisoners released from state institutions in Texas and Georgia were offered financial aid f...

    $970.00

  • NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    PETER H. ROSSI / JAMES D WRIGHT / ELEANOR WEBER-BURDIN
    Natural Hazards and Public Choice: The State and Local Politics of Hazard Mitigation presents a research project that emerged from a concern for estimating the balance of support versus opposition to prospective social policies that aim to reduce the risks of damage or injuries from major natural hazard events via the regulation of land use and establishment of building and occ...

    $970.00

  • MODELLING STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY: BRIDGING THE GAP TO CONTINUOUS TIME
    ROSSI, PETER H.
    This essay collection focuses on the relationship between continuous time models and Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroskedastic (ARCH) models and applications. For the first time, Modelling Stock Market Volatility provides new insights about the links between these two models and new work on practical estimation methods for continuous time models. Featuring the pioneering sch...

    $1,971.00

  • DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
    PETER H. ROSSI
    The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks. ...

    $662.39