Yehuda Sharim Songs that Never End . November 1, 2019
Having fled their home in Iran, the Dayan family is greeted in Houston with hurricanes and perilous politics. Nine-year-old Hana is bold and brilliant and struggles to be heard while her family comes to grips with life in the sprawling Texan metropolis, constantly reaching out to all that is gone but is still here: a hunger for the future, and songs about a kind world.
Charlie Eaton Agile Predators: Private Equity and the Spread of Shareholder Value Strategies to U.S. For-Profit Colleges. October 22, 2019
Eaton shows how private equity investors import predatory shareholder value practices to sectors that previously lacked publicly traded corporations such as the for-profit college sector.
Eaton, Charlie, Howell, Sabrina, Yannelis, Constantine When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education. October 22, 2019
Eaton, Howell, and Yannelis demonstrate that private equity investors incentives adversely affect consumer interests in sectors such as for-profit higher education where the quality of goods are difficult to evaluate and consumer protection regulations are inadequate.
Eaton, Charlie, Kulkarni, Sheisha, Birgeneau, Robert, Brady, Henry, Hout, Mike The Organizational Ecology of College Affordability: Student Debt and Need-Based State Grant Aid for Public University Students. August 2, 2019
Eaton et. al show that low income students have struggled to repay debts across the status hierarchy of public universities but that state grant aid programs and institutional grant aid programs at higher status schools have reduced borrowing and repayment burdens.
Fons-Rosen, Pierre Azoulay and Joshua Graff-Zivin Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?. August 1, 2019
We examine how the premature death of eminent life scientists alters the vitality of their fields.
Denise Diaz Payán Intrapersonal and Environmental Barriers to Physical Activity Among Blacks and Latinos. April 1, 2019
This qualitative study used focus groups to understand perceived barriers and facilitators to physical activity (PA) among at-risk African American and Hispanic adolescents and adults in a low-income community.
Tanya Golash-Boza Punishment beyond the deportee: The collateral consequences of deportation. March 13, 2019
Deportations from the U.S. reached record highs after the Great Recession. The majority of these deportees have U.S. citizen family members. More than 90% of the deportees are men, and nearly all are sent to Latin America, creating gendered and raced consequences for specific communities. This article discusses these implications.
Yehuda Sharim Seeds of All Things. August 1, 2018
Amid the backdrop of a contentious presidential election, a health clinic in Southwest Houston is run by and for immigrants and refugees. A family from Iran is bound by love as they build a new home in the city’s most diverse neighborhood.
Yehuda Sharim Lessons in Seeing. September 1, 2017
When the elderly math teacher, Sibhatleab, ventures alone from a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he finds himself at the bottom rung of the social ladder in a vast, faceless Texan metropolis in the summer before a contentious election. As he still copes with his unthinkable twenty-five-year history of imprisonment and torture, he finds hope at Salem Market, a tiny store that caters to Houston’s refugee community. The film tells his story of disillusionment and resilience, questioning our understanding of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.
Denise Diaz Payán Advocacy coalitions involved in California's menu labeling policy debate: Exploring coalition structure, policy beliefs, resources, and strategies. March 1, 2017
Advocacy coalitions often play an important role in the state health policymaking process, yet little is known about their structure, composition, and behavior. We used a qualitative research approach to identify coalition members and explore their expressed beliefs and policy arguments, resources, and strategies by analyzing legislative documents and newspaper articles produced between 1999 and 2009.
