2008 Working Papers Archive

Race and Friendship Choice: A Test of Contact and Group Threat Theories
Jennifer Flashman

Measuring and Modelling Biodiversity from Space
Thomas Gillespie, Giles M. Foody, Duccio Rocchini, Ana Paula Giorgi, Sassan Saatchi

Lessons from Empirical Network Analyses on Matters of Life and Death in East Africa
CCPR-2008-059
Jere R. Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, Susan Watkins

Housing Crowding Effects on Children’s Wellbeing: National and Longitudinal Comparisons
Claudia Solari, Robert Mare

Do Mexican immigrants “import” social gradients in health behaviors to the US?
CCPR-057-08
Alison Buttenheim, Noreen Goldman, Anne Pebley, Rebeca Wong, German Rodriguez, Chang Chung

Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson

Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment
Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas

Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: New Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs
Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Kimberly V. Smith

The Association Between Retirement and Emotional Well- Being: Does Prior Work-Family Conflict Matter?
Kathryn M. Coursolle, Megan Sweeney, James Raymo, Jeong-Hwa Ho

Acceptance of repeat population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi
Francis Obare, Peter Fleming, Philip Anglewicz, Rebecca Thornton, Francis Martinson, Agatha Kapatuka, Michelle Poulin, Susan Watkins, Hans-Peter Kohler

Asking God about the Date You Will Die: HIV Testing as a Zone of Uncertainty in Rural Malawi
Amy Kaler, Susan Watkins

Hearsay Ethnography: A Method for Learning about Responses to Health Interventions
CCPR-2008-047
Susan Watkins, Ann Swidler, Crystal Biruk

‘Teach a Man to Fish’: The Doctrine of Sustainability and Its Social Consequences
Ann Swidler, Susan Watkins

Implications for behavioural change in rural Malawi of popular understandings of the epidemiology of AIDS
CCPR-2008-045
Gigi Santow, Michael Bracher, Susan Watkins

Diversity and Change in Cambodian Households (1998- 2006)
Floriane Demont, Patrick Heuveline

Women’s and Men’s Career Referents: How Gender Composition and Comparison Level Shape Career Expectations
Donald E. Gibson, Barbara Lawrence

Schooling Location and Economic, Occupational and Cognitive Success among Immigrants and Their Children: the Case of Los Angeles
Margot Jackson, Anne Pebley, Noreen Goldman

Measuring the Impacts of the HIV Epidemic on Household Structure and Gender Relations
Patrick Heuveline

Neighborhoods and Individual Preferences: A Markovian Model
CCPR-038-08
Shripad Tuljapurkar, Elizabeth Bruch, Robert Mare

Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
CCPR-037-08
Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Kjell Salvanes

Delay in First Marriage and First Childbearing in Korea- Trends in Educational Differentials
Bongoh Kye

Preferences and Pathways to Segregation: Reply to Van de Rijt, Siegel, and Macy
CCPR-035-08
Elizabeth Bruch, Robert Mare

Recent Trends in Internal and International Mexican Migration: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey
Erika Arenas, Hector Conroy, Jenna Nobles

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Provider-Initiated HIV Testing in Antenatal Clinics in Rural Malawi
Nicole Angotti, Kim Yi Dionne, Lauren Gaydosh

Segregation Processes
CCPR-032-08
Elizabeth Bruch, Robert Mare

Health Selectivity of Internal Migrants in Mexico: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey
Erika Arenas

International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
Lucas W. Davis, Matthew Kahn

Urban Growth and Climate Change
Matthew Kahn

The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew Kahn

Changing Cities and Directions: New York and Los Angeles
David Halle, Andrew A. Beveridge

The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Evidence from Union Army Records
Dora Costa

Health, Wartime, Stress, and Unit Cohesion: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn

Are Both Parents Always Better Than One? Parental Conflict and Young Adult Well-being
Kelly Musick, Ann Meier

Spillover between Family and Peer Conflict in Adolescents’ Daily Lives
Grace H. Chung, Lisa Flook, Andrew J. Fuligni

A Measure of Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Family Obligation
Andrew J. Fuligni, Vivian Tseng

Academic Identification among Adolescents with Latin American Backgrounds
Andrew J. Fuligni, Virginia W. Huynh

Daily Family Interactions among Young Adults from Latino, Asian, and European Backgrounds
Andrew J. Fuligni, Carrie L. Masten

Change in Ethnic Identity across the High School Years among Adolescents with Latin American, Asian, and European Backgrounds
Lisa Kiang, Melissa Witkow, Oscar Baldelomar, Andrew J. Fuligni

Purpose and Meaning, Ethnic Identity, and Adjustment among Adolescents from Latin, Asian, and European American Backgrounds
Lisa Kiang, Andrew J. Fuligni

Measuring Primary and Secondary School Characteristics: A Group-Based Modeling Approach
CCPR-014-08
Andrew Helpern-Manners, John Warren, Jennie E. Brand

Social Conditions and Infant Mortality in China: A Test of the Fundamental Cause Perspective
CCPR-013-08
Shige Song, Sarah Burgard

Mortality Consequences of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China: Debilitation, Selection, and Mortality Crossovers
Shige Song

Into the Mainstream?: Labor Market Outcomes of Mexican Origin Workers
Renee Reichl Luthra, Roger Waldinger

Mother and Daughter Reports about Upward Transfers
I-Fen Lin

Re-Examining the Moving to Opportunity Study and its contribution to changing the distribution of poverty and ethnic concentration
William Clark

Understanding the social context of the Schelling segregation model
William Clark, Mark Fossett

The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression
CCPR‐007‐08
Leah Boustan, Price V. Fishback, Shawn Kantor

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
CCPR‐006‐08
Leah Boustan

Glutathione S-transferase mu, omega, pi, and theta class variants and smoking in Parkinson’s disease
Angelika D. Wahner, Charles E. Glatt, Jeff M. Bronstein, Beate Ritz

International Migration and Educational Assortative Mating in Mexico and the United States
Kate Choi, Robert Mare

Fixed and Random Effects in Panel Data Using Structural Equations Models
PWP-CCPR-2008-003
Kenneth A. Bollen, Jennie E. Brand

Reactions to Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Rural Malawi
Rebecca Thornton, Agatha Bula, Kondwani Chavula, Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Susan Watkins