2007 Working Papers Archive

Assessment and Prediction of Natural Hazards from Satellite Imagery
Thomas Gillespie, Jasmine Chu, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas

Mental Health in Sumatra After the Tsunami
Elizabeth Frankenberg, Jed Friedman, Thomas Gillespie, Nicholas Ingwersen, Robert Pynoos, Lip Umar Rifai, Bondan Sikoki, Alan Steinberg, Cecep Sumantri, Wayan Suriastini, Duncan Thomas

Quarter-Squares Revisited: Earlier Tables, Division of Labor in Table Construction, and Later Implementations in Analog Computers
David D. McFarland

Understanding Socioeconomic Gradients in Health in the Mexican-origin Population in the United States
Pamela J. Stoddard

Lessons from Empirical Network Analyses on Matters of Life and Death in East Africa
CCPR‐071‐07
Jere R. Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, Susan Watkins

Test of the “Healthy Migrant Hypothesis”: A Longitudinal Analysis of Health Selectivity of Internal Migration in Indonesia
Yao Lu

Mothers’ Community Participation and Child Health
Jenna Nobles, Elizabeth Frankenberg

Epistemology and Epidemiology: Diagnosing AIDS in rural Malawi
CCPR‐068‐07
Susan Watkins, Gigi Santow, Michael Bracher, Crystal Biruk

Women’s Work and Women’s Health in Mexico: Understanding the links
Jane Rubin-Kurtzman, Catalina Denman

Marriage and Socioeconomic Change in Contemporary Indonesia
CCPR‐066‐07
Jenna Nobles, Alison Buttenheim

Adoption and Foster Care by Gay and Lesbian Parents in the United States
CCPR‐065‐07
Gary Gates, M.V. Lee Badgett, Jennifer Ehrle Macomber, Kate Chambers

Immigration-Related Factors and Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans
David Takeuchi, Nolan Zane, Seunghye Hong, David H. Chae, Fang Gong, Gilbert Gee, Emily Walton, Stanley Sue, Margarita Alegria

Do physical neighborhood characteristics matter in predicting traffic stress and health outcomes?
Yan Song, Gilbert Gee, Yingling Fan, David Takeuchi

Reinventar políticas para familias reinventadas: entre la realidad brasileña y la utopía
Irma Arriagada

Child Bilingualism or Familial Acculturation? ‘New’ Directions in Measuring Acculturation
David A. Cort

Explaining Women’s Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women’s Work
CCPR‐057‐07
Sandra Black, Alexandra Spitz-Oener

Growth Mixture Modeling for Sequential Growth Processes
Shige Song, Bengt Muthen

Assimilation, Multiculturalism and the Challenge of Marginalized Groups
William Clark

Neighborhood Social Conditions Mediate the Associations between Physical Deterioration and Mental Health
Daniel J. Kruger, Thomas M. Reischl, Gilbert Gee

Assimilation and Gender in Naming
Christina A. Sue, Edward Telles

Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men
CCPR‐050‐07
Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Kjell Salvanes

Relationships Between Self-Reported Unfair Treatment and Prescription Medication Use, Illicit Drug Use, and Alcohol Dependence Among Filipino Americans
Gilbert Gee, Jorge Delva, David Takeuchi

Race and Ethnicity and Latin America’s United Nations Millennium Development Goals
Edward Telles

The association between self-reported racial discrimination and 12-month DSM-IV mental disorders among Asian Americans nationwide
Gilbert Gee, Michael Spencer, Juan Chen, Tiffany Yip, David Takeuchi

Differential of Insomnia Symptoms between Migrants and Non-migrants in China
Peifeng Hu, William Mason, Shige Song, Donald J. Treiman, Wei Wang

Hungry for Respect: Discrimination among Adults Using Emergency Food Services
Gilbert Gee, Kathryn J. Lively, Larissa Larsen, Jennifer Keith, Jana Stone, Kara MacLeod

Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men
CCPR‐044‐07
Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Kjell Salvanes

Does Famine Have a Long-Term Effect on Cohort Mortality? Evidence from the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China
Shige Song

Feelings of Usefulness to Others, Disability, and Mortality in Older Adults: The MacArthur Study of Successful Aging
Tara Gruenewald, Arun Karlamangla, Gail Greendale, Burton Singer, Teresa Seeman

Combinations of biomarkers predictive of later life mortality
Tara Gruenewald, Teresa Seeman, Carol D. Ryff, Arun Karlamangla, Burton Singer

Contemporary Art: A ‘Global’ and Local Perspective via New York’s Chelsea District
David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, Yishay D. Maoz

General Pediatricians’ Views on Allocating More Time in Primary Care Practice to Children with Special Health Care: Results from a National Survey
Tumaini R. Coker, G. Caleb Alexander, Lawrence P. Casalino, John Lantos

Trajectories of Alcohol Consumption among Older Japanese Followed from 1987-1999
Gilbert Gee, Jersey Liang, Joan Bennett, Neal Krause, Erika Kobayashi, Taro Fukaya, Yuko Sugihara

WIC Program Participation and Early Childhood Overweight
Gail Harrison, Abdelmonem Afifi, Eloise Jenks, Maria Koleilat

Effects of Layoffs and Plant Closings on Depression Among Older Workers
CCPR‐034‐07
Jennie E. Brand, Becca R. Levy, William T. Gallo

A Nationwide Study of Discrimination and Chronic Health Conditions among Asian Americans
Gilbert Gee, Michael Spencer, Juan Chen, David Takeuchi

Was PostWar Suburbanization “White Flight”? Evidence from the Black Migration
CCPR‐032‐07
Leah Boustan

Age, Cohort and Perceived Age Discrimination: Using the Life Course to Assess Self-reported Age Discrimination
Gilbert Gee, Eliza K. Pavalko, J. Scott Long

Hispanic Paradox in Biological Risk Profiles
Eileen Crimmins, Jung Ki Kim, Dawn Alley, Arun Karlamangla, Teresa Seeman

Unwanted Fertility, Contraceptive Technology and Crime: Exploiting a Natural Experiment in Access to The Pill
Juan Pantano

Development-Induced Displacement and Children’s Human Capital
CCPR‐027‐07
Alison Buttenheim, Jed Friedman, Harold Alderman

What Explains Race and Ethnic Variation in Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Nonmarital Fertility?
R. Kelly Raley, Megan Sweeney

Ties of Dependence: AIDS and Transactional Sex in Rural Malawi
Ann Swidler, Susan Watkins

Child Health in a Post-Flood Period in Bangladesh
CCPR‐024‐07
Alison Buttenheim

The Measurement of Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Couples in the 2000 US Census
Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor

Hygienic Latrine Use and Child Wasting in Urban Bangladesh
CCPR‐022‐07
Alison Buttenheim

Is Biology Destiny? A Sociological Explanation for Divergent Destinies
Amy Hsin

An Assessment of Available Data and Data Needs for Studying Intra- and Inter-Generational Family Relationships and Behavior
CCPR-020-07
Suzanne Bianchi, Judith Seltzer, Jeffery V. Evans, V. Joseph Hotz, Kathleen McGarry

An Analysis of Core Networks among First-Generation Immigrants
Chinyere Osuji

Does Son Preference Influence Children’s Growth in Height? A Comparative Study of Chinese and Filipino Children
CCPR-018-07
Shige Song, Sarah Burgard

How Did the Statewide Assessment and Accountability Policies of the 1990s Affect Instructional Quality in Elementary Schools?
Meredith Phillips, Jennifer Flashman

Education Differences in Intended and Unintended Fertility
Kelly Musick, Paula England, Sarah Edgington, Nicole Kangas

Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences
Maurizio Mazzocco, Shiv Saini

Stability and Change in Ethnic Labeling among Adolescents from Asian and Latin American Immigrant Families
Andrew J. Fuligni, Melissa Witkow, Lisa Kiang, Oscar Baldelomar

Ethnic Socialization, Discrimination, and the Academic Adjustment of Adolescents from Latin American, Asian, and European Backgrounds
Virginia W. Huynh, Andrew J. Fuligni

The Role of Heritage Language Development in the Adjustment of Adolescents from Immigrant Backgrounds
Janet S. Oh, Andrew J. Fuligni

Health over the life course
John Strauss, Duncan Thomas

Household Surveys
Duncan Thomas

Women’s Work and Women’s Health in Mexico: Understanding the links
Jane Rubin-Kurtzman, Catalina Denman

Longitudinal Analysis of Annual Income Dynamics in California
Paul Ong, R. Varisa Patraporn, Douglas Houston

Children’s Health, Academic Experiences and Qualifications in Adulthood: the Case of Great Britain
Margot Jackson

Family Wealth Distribution in California
Paul Ong, R. Varisa Patraporn, Douglas Houston

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

Chinese Immigrant Political Attitudes Ethnic-Centered Political Engagement
Paul Ong, Joanna Lee

SF Chinese Immigrants Voters Persistency in Voter Registration
Paul Ong, Mike Manville

Naturalization of SF Chinese Immigrants: The Surge in the 1990s
Paul Ong, Joanna Lee

The Effect of Labor Migration and Remittances on Children’s Education among Blacks in South Africa
Yao Lu, Donald J. Treiman

Assessment and prediction of natural hazards from satellite imagery
Thomas Gillespie, Jasmine Chu, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas

Brasil: desafíos de las políticas para las familias
Ana Maria Goldani, Aida Verdugo Lazo

Intergenerational Relations and Welfare State Restructuring Why Should We Re-Think this Relationship in Brazil
Ana Maria Goldani

Demographic Variation in Housing Cost Adjustments With US Family Migration
Suzanne Davies Withers, William Clark, Tricia Ruiz