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Prevalent poverty and related problems in the East African region call for substantial action from various stakeholders, including social workers. This book, based on comprehensive empirical research, portrays an emerging yet powerful profession that has a significant role to play in the endeavour towards social development, social justice, human rights and gender equality. The book is the first of its kind to provide first-hand theoretical and empirical evidence about social work in East Africa.
Does the rotten child spoil his companion? : spatial peer effects among children in rural India
(2014)
This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child's nearest geographical neighbors, into a production function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh, India. Our peer group definition takes the form of networks, whose structure allows us to identify endogenous peer effects and contextual effects separately. We exploit variation over time to avoid confounding correlated with social effects. Our results suggest that spatial peer and neighborhood effects are strongly positively associated with a child's cognitive skill formation. Further, we explore the effect of peer groups in helping to provide insurance against the negative impact of idiosyncratic shocks to child learning. We find that the data reject full risk-sharing, but cannot rule out the existence of partial risk-sharing on behalf of peers. We show that peer effects are robust to different specifications of peer interactions and investigate the sensitivity of our estimates to potential misspecification of the network structure using Monte Carlo experiments.
In ihrer Dissertation geht Kathrin Schrader der Frage nach, welche Selbsttechnologien Frauen entwickeln, deren Lebensrealitäten von der Verschränkung von Drogenkonsum und Sexarbeit geprägt sind. Auf der Basis von acht Interviews mit drogengebrauchenden Sexarbeiterinnen analysiert sie mittels einer gouvernementalitätstheoretischen Perspektive und der Intersektionalen Mehrebenenanalyse die Handlungsfähigkeiten im Kontext massiver gesellschaftlicher Diskriminierungen in den Subjektkonstruktionen der interviewten Frauen. Auf diese Weise kann sie sehr überzeugend die Wechselwirkungen von gesellschaftlichen Strukturen, Stereotypen und Diskursen sowie Identitätskonstruktionen herausarbeiten und leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Dekonstruktion des gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit dieser Gruppe.