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  • Toward Decolonizing Community Campus Partnerships

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Levkoe, Charles and Kepkiewicz, Lauren
    Date Created:
    2016-03-01

  • Rigour in Methods and Evaluation for Community Engagement

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Yordy, Christopher
    Abstract:
    This paper is an overview of the important considerations that arise at the outset of a project. There are numerous ways that a work team may decide on which methods should be prioritized among the many tools available for community engagement. As the project comes to grips with the scale and the scope of a 7-year project on Community Engagement, it will be essential to explore how the various evaluative methods: Theory of Change (ToC), Developmental Evaluation, Collective Impact, and Action Research are combined, and how Evaluation scholars have typically approached these subjects in the past. Is it possible to use ‘Theory of Change’ at the same time as other methods? One may answer this question with a resounding “Yes!” In the community sector, there are many versions of a Theory of Change. The term may be applied to both one’s personalized impression of the arrow of change, as well as according to traditional Log Frame models for mapping long term ‘policy change.’ Even if there are dilemmas in coming up with language to describe what is meant by “Theory of Change,” there are many opportunities for ToC to be fused with other methods, and tried and tested over the life of the CFICE project, whatever the original connotations of the researcher or community practitioner may be.
    Date Created:
    2012-11-01

  • Newcomer and racialized youth opposing Gender-based Violence : Evaluating the MANifest Change Model

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Conners, Deborah, Schaaf, Matt, Muldoon, Katherine, Smith, Ainsley, and Partridge, Kevin
    Date Created:
    2022-07-01

  • Education for Experience: One View of Tibetan Tantric Initiation

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Given, Brian J.
    Abstract:
    The ethnographic treatment of "rites de Passage" is discussed with reference to material relating to religious initiation. It is suggested that the major transitions engendered through the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric W a n g Kur rituals may be profitably analyzed not simply as changes in social status but rather as tools for the re-ordering of phenomenology which are designed to engender long-term alterations in the initiates' experience of the world. The initiation provides a rationale and instruction conjunctive with ritual technique which is consciously designed to globally and permanently alter the consciousness of the practitioner. Suggestions for studies of rites of passage which take into account this dimension of the ritual control of experience are offered.
    Date Created:
    1992-10-22

  • Forced Retirement Risk and Portfolio Choice

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Nam, Tong-yob, Lee, Minjoon, and Chen, Guodong
    Date Created:
    2018-08-12

  • Older Americans Would Work Longer If Jobs Were Flexible

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Tonetti, Christopher, Caplin, Andrew, Briggs, Joseph, Lee, Minjoon, Shapiro, Matthew D., and Ameriks, John
    Abstract:
    Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work, especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job opportunities or low expectations about finding them than by unwillingness to work longer. This paper establishes these findings using an approach to identification based on strategic survey questions (SSQs) purpose-designed to complement behavioral data. These findings suggest that demand-side factors are important in explaining late-in-life labor market behavior and may be the most appropriate target for policy aimed at promoting working longer.
    Date Created:
    2017-10-29

  • The Welfare and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Volatility: a Quantitative Evaluation

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Bachmann, Rudiger, Lee, Minjoon, Bai, Jinhui H., and Zhang, Fudong
    Date Created:
    2018-05-18

  • The Wealth of Wealthholders

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Lee, Minjoon, Tonetti, Christopher, Shapiro, Matthew D., Caplin, Andrew, and Ameriks, John
    Abstract:
    This paper introduces the Vanguard Research Initiative (VRI), a new panel survey of wealthholders designed to yield high-quality measurements of a large sample of older Americans who arrive at retirement with significant financial assets. The VRI links survey data with a variety of administrative data from Vanguard. The survey features an account-by-account approach to asset measurement and a real-time feedback and correction mechanism that are shown to be highly successful in eliciting accurate measures of wealth. Specifically, the VRI data reflect unbiased and precise estimates of wealth when compared to administrative account data. The VRI sample has characteristics similar to populations meeting analogous wealth and Internet access eligibility conditions in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). To illustrate the value of the VRI, the paper shows that the relationship between wealth and expected retirement date is very different in the VRI than in the HRS and SCF—mainly because those surveys have so few observations where wealth levels are high enough to finance substantial consumption during retirement.
    Date Created:
    2014-12-09

  • Heterogeneity in Expectations, Risk Tolerance, and Household Stock Shares

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Shapiro, Matthew D., Lee, Minjoon, Kézdi, Gábor, and Ameriks, John
    Abstract:
    This paper investigates the relationship between stock share and expectations and risk preferences using linked survey responses and administrative records from account holders. The survey allows individual-level, quantitative estimates of risk tolerance and of the perceived mean and variance of stock returns. Estimated risk tolerance, expected return, and perceived risk have economically and statistically significant explanatory power for the distribution of stock shares. Relative to each other, the magnitudes are in proportion with the predictions of benchmark theories, but they are substantially attenuated. MBA graduates have more stable beliefs, more knowledge about their account holdings, and less attenuation.
    Date Created:
    2017-06-26

  • Portfolio Allocation over Life-Cycle with Multiple Late-in-Life Saving Motives

    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Creator:
    Lee, Minjoon
    Abstract:
    Older households face health-related risks, including risk of being in need of long-term care and mortality risk. How these risks affect financial portfolio choice of households depends on household preferences for long-term care and bequest. Using linked survey-administrative data on clients of a mutual fund company, this paper finds that the desire to have enough resources for long-term care and bequests are overall strong but also heterogeneous across households. The estimated relationship between actual stock share of households and the strength of these preferences is qualitatively similar but quantitatively much weaker compared to the predictions from the life-cycle model with the estimated preference heterogeneity. Based on the predictions from the model, this paper discusses what financial instruments would better meet the needs of households.
    Date Created:
    2018-07-22