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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication and Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction. Participatory Action Research: A New Vision and Practice in Latino Communities -- Introduction -- A Critique of Traditional Research Strategies: Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Power -- Participatory Action Research: Philosophy and Principles -- Structure of the Book -- Section I: Creating a New Vision and Role for Research in Latino Communities -- Chapter 1. Plugging the Brain Drain: Bringing Our Education Back Home -- Connecting University and Community Through Problem-Solving Research -- Dynamics of Dichotomous Divisions: The Debate over What Constitutes Legitimate Research -- Epistemological and Methodological Limitations -- Reframing Our Research Questions -- Interactive Research -- Closing the Dichotomous Division -- Section II: Latino Community and Research Partnerships in Practice -- Chapter 2. A Participatory Perspective on Parent Involvement -- Parent-School Interaction in Contemporary Society -- Creating a New Cultural Activity in Participation -- In the Act of Transformation -- A New Definition of Parent Involvement -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Chapter 3. Building Community, Research, and Policy: A Case of Community Health and Central Americans in Los Angeles -- Introduction -- Organizational and Community Context -- Community Partnership Methodology -- Learning from the Initiative: Challenges and Benefits -- Appendix: Selected Findings from the Needs Assessment -- Chapter 4. Critical Ethnography and Substance Abuse Research Among Transnational Mexican Farmworkers -- Introduction -- Transnational Mexican Farmworkers and Substance Abuse -- Studying Substance Abuse Among Transnational Mexican Farmworkers -- Using the Ethnographic Method to Overcome Research Obstacles.

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Barrios and Planning Ideology -- 3. Aesthetic Belonging -- 4. Placing Barrios in Housing Policy -- 5. Urban Redevelopment and Mexican American Barrios in the Socio-Spatial Order -- 6. A Pair of Queens -- 7. Fostering Diversity -- 8. Mexican Americans and Environmental Justice -- 9. After Latino Metropolis -- About the Contributors -- Index

PurposeIn an era of increasing financial vulnerability, people are not saving enough to either fund their future pension benefits or having precautionary savings. The authors propose that pension knowledge makes people increase their probability of having voluntary pension and banking savings.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use the social protection survey in Chile, a unique set of panel data for affiliates in 2006 and 2009. First, the authors use clustering algorithms to find naturally occurring groupings in the level of pension knowledge. Second, the authors run a probit regression model for explaining the probability of having a voluntary pension and banking savings, using as determinants the level of pension knowledge and several control variables that are usually explored in the literature.FindingsThe authors find two clusters of pension knowledge in the Chilean pension system. In addition, the authors find that there is a positive correlation between high pension knowledge and good financial decision-making, as these people have voluntary retirement and banking savings.Practical implicationsAs people who spend time planning accumulate more wealth, it is important to develop public policies that promote the advantages to know better about the benefits of having voluntary savings for the long-term horizon. Conscientious people are also more likely to have voluntary savings.Social implicationsPolicy programs to increase to be responsible can have positive effects on society's welfare.Originality/valueUp to the authors' knowledge, this is the first study that connects clustering algorithms and pension knowledge.