Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

List of Contributors ix Foreword xi Preface xiii Natural Experiments, Causal Influences, and Policy Development 1(20) Michael Rutter Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development 21(29) Marta Tienda The Multiple Facets of Ethnicity 50(30) Michael Rutter Marta Tienda Educational Attainments: Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom 80(27) Barbara Maughan Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States 107(32) Charles Hirschman Jennifer C. Lee Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Delinquency in the United States 139(35) Jeffrey D. Morenoff Explaining Ethnic Variations in Crime and Antisocial Behavior in the United Kingdom 174(30) David J. Smith Cultural Differences in the Effects of Physical Punishment 204(23) Kirby Deater-Deckard Kenneth A. Dodge Emma Sorbring Ethnicity and Mental Health: The Example of Schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean Population in Europe 227(35) Peter B. Jones Wai Lun Alan Fung Ethnic Variations in Youth Suicide 262(19) Jewelle Taylor Gibbs Ethnicity and Intergenerational Identities and Adaptations in Britain: The Socio-Political Context 281(20) Tariq Modood Assimilation, Dissimilation, and Ethnic Identities: The Experience of Children of Immigrants in the United States 301(34) Ruben G. Rumbaut Deciphering Ethnicity: Reflections on Research Opportunities 335(16) Marta Tienda Michael Rutter Author Index 351(13) Subject Index 364