Article history: The inclusion of multiple ra Received 27 June 2008 Received in revised form 14 December 2008 Accepted 18 January 2009 Available online 27 January 2009

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic determinants of disparities in health Journal Article (1996). Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic determinants of disparities in health.

In 1989 the English Sports Council introduced its first policy targeting people from ethnic minority communities. This was followed in 1992 by a statement that recognised existing inequalities of opportunity in sport for people from ethnic minority communities and acknowledged a duty to work towards the elimination of racial disadvantage and discrimination in sport, and promote good race relati...

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or political quotas) of education received by ...

Every second, the thoughts and feelings of millions of people across the world are recorded in the form of 140-character tweets using Twitter. However, despite the enormous potential presented by this remarkable data source, we still do not have an understanding of the Twitter population itself: Who are the Twitter users? How representative of the overall population are they? In this paper, we ...

Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in 2006. Because of large differences in male income between China and HK, marriages of HK men with Mainland women outnumbered those of HK women w...

The Network Readiness Index (NRI) was developed to measure the propensity for countries (and regions) to exploit information and communications technology (ICT) for development and growth. Much has been written about the influences of economic and non-economic factors on ICT diffusion in developed societies. Studies examining the impact of relevant factors on Africa’s regions’ capabilities to e...