CBR Versus TFR in Cross-National Fertility Research

Description versus explanation in cross-national research on adolescence.

The last couple of decades have seen a burgeoning of comparative studies of the behavior, health, and development of adolescents living in societies, cultures, or settings outside the United States. These studies have often been carried out by local researchers with collaborators from the U.S., or they sometimes represent the local application, in distant lands, of theories and models and measu...

Quantitative Cross-national Research Methods

Quantitative nation comparisons pose inevitable trade-offs. One is that much of the contextual reality of individual nations is sacrificed for the sake of broader generalization. We fail to capture the uniqueness that defines a nation’s culture, historical heritage, and endemic logic. The interpretation of a variable may, indeed, only be possible when its is studied contextually (Ragin, 1987; a...

Cross-National Research: Caregiver Consequences

Comparing the consequences of caregiving across countries for a person with a serious mental illness needs to take into account not only different languages, but also different cultures, quality of mental health services and standards of living. So far, one questionnaire has shown the most validity and become the exemplar in cross-national research; yet it is still not free from possible cultur...

Ethical considerations in European cross-national research.

Assessing Measurement Invariance in Cross-National Consumer Research