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Graduate Student Paper Award Winners

2009 Kyle Longest, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Integrating Identity Theory and the Life Course Perspective: The Case of Adolescent Religious Behavior"
2008 Genevieve Pham-Kanter, University of Chicago, "Social Comparisons and Health: Can Having Richer Friends and Neighbors Make You Sicker?"
Tetyana P. Shippee, Purdue University, "'But I am Not Moving': Residents' Perspectives on Transitions within a Continuing Care Retirement Community"
2007 Daniel Carlson, Ohio State University, "The Stress of Non-Marital Events"
2006 Jinyyoung Kim and Emily Durden, University of Texas, Austin, "Socioeconomic Status and Age Trajectories of Health"
2005 Yang Yang, Duke University, "Is Getting Old Depressing?"
2004 Miles Taylor and Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, Duke University. "Socioeconomic Status across the Life Course and Mental Health in Adulthood: The Interplay of Ascribed and Achieved Status"
2003 Krysia Mossakowski, Indiana University, "The Nativity Paradox and the Social Timing of Immigration over the Life Course"
2002 Tay McNamara, Boston College
2001 Joy E. Pixley and Carter T. Butts. "Analyzing Life Course Patterns with the Interval Graph Approach"
2000 Kim Shuey, Florida State University, "In the Middle: Intergenerational Patterns of Assistance Among a Cohort of American Couples"