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Round Table Plan for Trustees of Institutions for Dependent Children

Editor
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
15 pages

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In 1916, the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping organized round table sessions to assist trustees of institutions caring for dependent children in their administrative duties. This document outlines the agendas of the meetings, which also accompanied the publication of eight short monographs of study findings.

C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Physical Care of Dependent Children in Institutions

To accompany round table plan for trustees of institutions for dependent children
Author
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
23 pages

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One of a series of monographs prepared by the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping to accompany round table meetings of trustees of institutions caring for children. Physical Care of Dependent Children in Institutions discusses how the vital health needs of children were met at institutions in New York.

C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Education of Dependent Children in Institutions

To accompany round table plan for trustees of institutions for dependent children
Author
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
26 pages

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One of a series of monographs prepared by the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping to accompany round table meetings of trustees of  institutions caring for children. The Education of Dependent Children in Institutions discusses the academic and vocational aspects of the subject, social, moral and religious considerations are put forth in another monograph of the series.

C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Dependent Delinquent and Defective Children of Delaware

Author
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
88 pages

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This report is the outcome of a study commissioned by the Children's Bureau of Delaware. It tracked interventions of fifteen Delaware children's organizations over six months. The author makes recommendations for improvements, which are indexed in the table of contents. Dependent Delinquent and Defective Children of Delaware was published by the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping in 1918.

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The Newburgh Survey

Reports of Limited Investigations of Social Conditions in Newburgh, NY
Editor
Zenas L. Potter
Ebook
Publication Date
104 pages

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The Newburgh survey project was undertaken by the Foundation's Department of Surveys and Exhibits in 1913 in order to learn significant facts of living conditions in the community, to make recommendations where corrective action is needed, and to acquaint the general citizenship with both facts and needs.

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

CONTRIBUTORS: Franklin Zeiger, Zenas L. Potter, Franz Schneider, Amy Woods, Frederick W. Jenkins, Margaret F. Byington, Edward F. Brown, D. O. Decker.

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Public Lectures in School Buildings

Suggestions for Their Organization and Sources of Speakers and Topics
Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
60 pages

About This Book

A survey of evening public lecture programs held at U.S. schools, carried out by the Foundation's Department of Child Hygiene in 1910.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

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Sources of Speakers and Topics for Public Lectures in School Buildings

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
34 pages

About This Book

A directory of organizations which used the public lecture platform and their topics, published by the Foundation's Division of Recreation in 1915.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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The Social Centers of 1912-13

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
11 pages

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A 1912 report on the results of a schools survey taken to obtain data on evening "social center" activities hosted.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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Household Management

Author
Florence Nesbitt
Ebook
Publication Date
170 pages
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A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series, written in 1918.  The book is primarily a home economics study of how low-income households of the time managed money.

FLORENCE NESBITT was director of the food conservation section of the Cleveland Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense.

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This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.

During his time in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation, Thomas Palfrey (California Institute of Technology) is writing a book on Quantal Response Equilibrium (QRE) and its applications to the social sciences. Developed by Palfrey and Richard McKelvey, QRE is a game theory concept that is now one of the leading approaches to modeling bounded rationality—the idea that individuals’ rationality is limited by the information they have—in games.

In a new interview with the Foundation, Palfrey explained some of the basic applications of game theory to public policy, and the limitations of those approaches.

Q. What is Nash Equilibrium? How has it been applied to public policy, and what are its limitations?