Dissertation Titles of Ph.D. Graduates of the Graduate Program in Demography
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| 2008 | Best, Latrica | Mental health disparities among women in midlife: A longitudinal study of depressive symptoms, status, and disease in the united states |
| 2008 | Cheng, Yen-hsin (Alice) | Weight status and sexuality development from adolescence to young adulthood |
| 2008 | Daniels, Kimberly | Racial and ethnic differences in fertility-related behavior and intentions among cohabitors |
| 2008 | Marlay, Matthew | |
| 2008 | Menon, Niveditha | |
| 2008 | Ryan, Andrea K. | The effects of alcohol and illegal drug use on initial family formation |
| 2008 | Yang, Tse-Chuan | Exploring the rural paradox: A spatial investigation of rurality and mortality |
| 2007 | Bhandari, Prem | Technology use in agriculture and occupational mobility of farm households in Nepal: Demographic and socioeconomic correlates |
| 2007 | Dew, Jeffrey P. | Do you have the time? Changes in and implications of spouses' time together |
| 2007 | Durand, Yoshie | Living arrangements of the elderly in Bangkok, Thailand: Impacts of low fertility, life-courses, and non-marriage |
| 2007 | Durham, Rachel | English oral language, generation status, and the educational performance of immigrant children |
| 2007 | Ochai, Sule | Racial disparities in children's use of special education and mental health services |
| 2007 | Scott, Mindy | The effects of nonresident father involvement on offspring well-being during the transition to adulthood |
| 2007 | Shreffler, Karina | Race/ethnicity, fertility intentions, and well-being: the importance of occupational characteristics in american women's lives |
| 2007 | Shrestha, Sundar | Essays on childhood nutritional deprivation in Nepal and off-farm employment in the United States: multi-level and spatial econometric modeling approach |
| 2007 | Sparks, Corey S. | Households, land and labor: Population dynamics in the northern orkney island, scotland, 1851 to 2003 |
| 2007 | Steinmetz, Michele | A multi-level study of reproductive outcomes in Kenya: Quality of care and community factors |
| 2006 | Gubhaju, Bina | Understanding women's contraceptive choices: The role of family and policy interventions |
| 2006 | Jayaraman, Anuja | Poverty dynamics and household response: disaster shocks in rural Bangladesh |
| 2006 | Khatun, Mahmuda | Invisible men in power: Some evidence on unmet need for family planning in Bangladesh |
| 2006 | Moyi, Peter L. | Child labor and schooling in Ghana and Kenya: The roles of poverty and education policy |
| 2006 | Oluwole, Adetokunbo | The Effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Health Insurance Transitions among Low-Income U.S. Children: A Multilevel Approach |
| 2006 | Paré, Paul-Philippe | Income inequality and crime across nations reexamined |
| 2006 | Sambisa, William | The influence of women's autonomy and status on their adoption of safe sexual behaviors as related to HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe |
| 2006 | Smith, Jason | The effects of neighborhood and school context on extracurricular participation and educational outcomes |
| 2006 | Sparks, P. Johnelle | Inequality and infant health: A multilevel approach to disentangling correlates of metropolitan/nonmetropolitan disparities in low birth weight infants |
| 2005 | Aritomi, Paola (Tami) | Exploring barriers to Peruvian mothers' labor force participation: A multi-disciplinary multi-method approach |
| 2005 | Chhetri, Nalini | Global discourse and INGOs. Implications for Nepal's educational development: a qualitative study |
| 2005 | Chhetri, Netra | Understanding the process of agricultural adaptation to climate change: Analysis of climate-induced innovation in rice based cropping system of Nepal |
| 2005 | Galindo, Claudia | Latino students' math learning trajectories in the early school years: The role of English ability and socioeconomic status |
| 2005 | Gebreselassie, Tesfayi | Two essays in child nutritional status and urban poverty dynamics in Ethiopia |
| 2005 | Gifford, Elizabeth | Applying multilevel models to health services research for children with mental health problems |
| 2005 | Hurt, Tera Rose | Childhood experiences, interpersonal trust, and union patterns: an ethnographic analysis of low-income African American primary caregivers |
| 2005 | Kenkre, Tanya S. | Education, economic participation, and women's status in India |
| 2005 | Molla, Azizur | Effects of water quality on health in rural Bangladesh |
| 2004 | Baek, Juhee | Individual variations in family caregiving over the caregiving career |
| 2004 | Bradatan, Cristina | Below replacement fertility in Eastern Europe: A case study |
| 2004 | Chau, Yen Hue | Investigating pre-K child care characteristics and Head Start on kindergarten outcomes: Analyses using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K) |
| 2004 | Cheadle, Jacob E. | The role of 'Concerted Cultivation' in childhood academic achievement growth processes: class and race differences from kindergarten through third grade |
| 2004 | Dhital, Purandhar | Household human and social capital and school enrollment in Chitwan, Nepal |
| 2004 | Ho, Ching-Hua | Factors affecting older adults' use f local parks and the mediating/moderating role of social support in this relationship |
| 2004 | Logan, Cassandra | An examination of the relationship between marital status, social support, and psychological well-being among African American women |
| 2004 | Slack, Timothy | Work, welfare, and the informal economy: an examination of family livelihood strategies |
| 2004 | Warner, David | Marital status differences in working life after age 50: A sex-stratified analysis |
| 2003 | Avenilla, Frank | Assessing the links between emotional and behavioral school engagement and academic outcomes among high school students |
| 2003 | Gardner, Erica | Public health insurance and married families with children |
| 2003 | Goosby, Bridget | The impact of poverty duration on youth behavioral and cognitive outcomes |
| 2003 | Nankhuni, Flora | Environmental degradation, resource scarcity and children's welfare in Malawi: School attendance, school progress, and children's health |
| 2003 | Nonoyama, Atsuko | The effects of unintended pregnancy and mother's education on infant mortality in Bangladesh |
| 2003 | van Loon, Mollie | Residential differences in teenage premarital births in the United States: 1970--1990 |
| 2003 | Wang, Qiuyan | Essays on welfare use, the wage gap and unemployment transitions in the United States |
| 2003 | Zhang, Zhenmei | The marital life course and health in midlife |
| 2002 | Hwang, Seok Joon | The value of owner-occupation in neighborhoods |
| 2002 | Kodamanchaly, Joseph | Women's status and adoption of integrated pest management: a study of rural Bangladesh |
| 2002 | Riordan, Kate | Racial and socioeconomic gaps in children's school readiness |
| 2002 | Schachter, Jason | The who and why of moving: the curious case of rurality, poverty, and nativity |
| 2001 | Gajurel, Kishor | Organization of agricultural production and human fertility |
| 2001 | Nicolaeva, Marina Y. | Multilevel analysis of migrant selectivity to Appalachian counties |
| 2001 | Norwood, Romney | Social capital and employment opportunities in urban areas |
| 2001 | Nyangara, Florence | The effects of women's reproductive health behavior on child well-being in Kenya |
| 2001 | Ortega-Sanchez, Ismael | Labor out-migration impacts on agrarian economies: the case of central and southern Mexican communities |
| 2001 | Vargas, Silvana | The social organization of children's time in Peruvian rural communities |
| 2000 | Baluja, Kaari Flagstad | Gender role attitudes among Bangladeshi immigrants: an origin and destination area study |
| 2000 | Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta | Family structure and resource dilution effects of child outcomes: a comparative analysis of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago |
| 2000 | Chen, Yu-Hua | The impact of socioeconomic development on women's status in the family: similarities and differences between China and Taiwan |
| 2000 | Chin, Meejung | Kin support and public assistance to single-mother families: longitudinal analyses |
| 2000 | Gorman, Bridget | Early childhood development among mainland and island Puerto Ricans: the roles of birth outcomes, socioeconomic status, and social support |
| 2000 | Graefe, Deborah | A multi-level contextual approach to adolescent fertility among Mexican-origin women: neighborhood socioeconomic and cultural contexts |
| 2000 | Inkley, Michelle | Families as gatekeepers: the educational decision-making process in Peru |
| 2000 | Mugalla, Constance | Household decision making under different levels of trypanosomosis risk: an investigation of factors affecting disease control, labor participation, and household income decisions in rural households of the Gambia |
| 2000 | Munoz, Patricia | Poverty, schooling, and child labor: a portrait of Chile before and after democratization |
| 2000 | Pearce, Lisa | The multidimensional impact of religion on childbearing preferences and behavior in Nepal |
| 2000 | Robles Vásquez, Héctor Virgilio | A microeconomic analysis of child labor participation and education: the case of Mexico, 1984--1996 |
| 2000 | Ssengonzi, Robert | Female migration and infant/child survival in Uganda |
| 2000 | Zeleny, Beth | Gendered space in Afghan refugee camps |
| 1999 | Cameron, James | The social ecology of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan violent crime: a spatial diffusion model |
| 1999 | Heron, Melonie | The occupational attainment of Caribbean immigrants in the United States, Canada and England |
| 1999 | Jeong, Woo-Cheol | Ethnic variation in outdoor recreation use: the case of Asian immigrants |
| 1999 | Kofitse, Alexander K. | The number and spacing of births and household poverty: an economic analysis |
| 1999 | Oladosu, Muyiwa | Couple decision making and reproductive outcomes in Uganda |
| 1999 | Singley, Susan | Restructuring the 'family wage': gender and the intersection of family and economic change in the United States |
| 1999 | Snyder, Anastasia R. | Living arrangements at first birth among never married single mothers: stability, support, and social mobility |
| 1999 | Ukwuani, Festus | Polygyny, women's economic activity and child health in Nigeria |
| 1998 | Bohon, Stephanie | Inter-ethnic competition, enclave economies, and the occupational attainment of Latin American immigrant workers |
| 1998 | Brown, Susan | A prospective analysis of cohabitation: union dynamics and their meanings for men and women |
| 1998 | Georges, Annie | Racial and ethnic differences of the effect of the ged test on entry into and exit out of poverty among women |
| 1998 | Karunaratne, Padma | Fertility trends in rural Sri Lanka: do development interventions matter? |
| 1998 | Kraut-Becher, Julie R. | A dynamic analysis of young women's family formation decisions |
| 1998 | Pinero, Domingo J. | Iron distribution in the rat brain as a function of iron status |
| 1998 | Sarangi, Mrutyunjay | Women's empowerment and fertility behavior in rural India |
| 1997 | Barber, Jennifer S. | Intergenerational influences on childbearing processes: the effects of behavior and attitudes |
| 1997 | Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait | Demographic responses to economic crisis in Cameroon: fertility, child schooling and the quantity/quality tradeoff |
| 1997 | Friedman, Samantha | Access to opportunity? Race, poverty, and residential mobility in metropolitan America |
| 1997 | Isarabhakdi, Pimonpan | Sexual attitudes and behavior of never-married, rural Thai youth |
| 1997 | Meschke, Laurie L. | Description and prediction of change in risk-taking behavior between adolescence and young adulthood |
| 1997 | Myers, Scott M. | Earlier family migration and offspring's well-being in adulthood |
| 1997 | Rain, David R. | Eaters of the dry season: the changing worlds of circular labor migration in Maradi, Niger, West Africa |
| 1997 | Robinson, Kristen | The effect of educational attainment on mortality rates and cause of death structures |
| 1997 | Ulmer, Gail Johnston | Urban neighborhoods: demographic and economic changes and their impact on poverty |
| 1997 | Witkowski, Kristine M. | Structural, problem-solving, and life cycle issues in the organizational institutionalization of work-family programs |
| 1996 | Anderson, Robert N. | Marriage markets and the process of remarriage |
| 1996 | Calves, Anne | Youth and fertility in Cameroon: changing patterns of family formation |
| 1996 | Chitose, Yoshimi | Effects of ethnicity, gender and development policy on migration: the Malaysian experience |
| 1996 | Conroy, Carol A. | Developmental precursors to labor mobility among rural Pennsylvania youth: implications for career development education and programming |
| 1996 | Holman, Darryl | Total fecundability and fetal loss in rural Bangladesh |
| 1996 | Smith, Ekuwa Gyan | Household characteristics and school participation: implications for children's schooling in Ghana |
| 1995 | Hauan, Susan M. | Hispanics and working poverty in united states cities |
| 1995 | Humpf, Dorothy | Coosa: biocultural studies of a sixteenth century southeastern chiefdom |
| 1995 | Madamba, Anna | Underemployment among Asians in the United States |
| 1995 | Wilmoth, Janet M. | Living arrangement transitions among older adults |
| 1994 | Farkas, Janice | Emergent careers: American women's pension coverage at midlife |
| 1994 | Ogena, Nimfa B. | Female status, development and women's work in the Philippines |
| 1994 | Poukouta, Prosper V. | Effects of demographic variables and socioeconomic organization on fertility among the Herero of Ngamiland, Botswana |
| 1994 | Rauniyar, Durga S. | The relationship between maternal education and child health in rural Egypt |
| 1994 | Shell-Duncan, Bettina | Determinants of infant and childhood morbidity among nomadic Turkana pastoralists of northwest Kenya |
| 1993 | Gichuhi, Wanjiru (Agnes) | The impact of individual characteristics, community resources and maternal preventive health behavior on infant mortality in rural Kenya |
| 1992 | Blair, Marilou C. | Migration and occupational prestige in a developing country: the Philippines |
| 1992 | Casper, Lynne M. | Community variations in the rate and type of cohabitation: an evaluation of three explanations with new data |
| 1992 | Dodge, Hiroko Hayama | Poverty transitions among elderly widows in the United States |
| 1992 | Madigan, Timothy J. | Cultural capital and educational achievement: does participation in high-status cultural activities affect achievement in school? |
| 1992 | Shihadeh, Edward S. | Race, family structure and crime in the United States, 1960-1990: alternative explanations of race-disaggregated crime rates |
| 1991 | Blair, Sampson Lee | Determinants of the sex-based division of household labor for American adults and children |
| 1991 | Dehlot, Colette S. | The determinants of maternal compliant health behavior: implications for child health and family formation in Senegal |
| 1990 | Han, Gyoung-Hae | Social change, parental strategy, and the timing of marriage of Korean men |
| 1990 | LeClere, Felicia B. | The impact of measurement on the link between women's status and fertility in Taiwan |
| 1990 | McLaughlin, Diane K. | Influence of labor market structure on differences in outcomes and operation in local labor markets |
| 1990 | Muruli, Leunita A. | Education, labor force participation, residence, and fertility among Kenyan women |
| 1990 | Pennington, Renee L. | Fertility of the Herero and Mbanderu pastoralists of Botswana |
| 1989 | Eliason, Scott R. | Young adult labor force careers in the U.S., 1979-1985: an analysis of the initial stratification and attainment process |
| 1989 | Mohammed, Ahmed T. | Rural-rural labor circulation and poverty: the evidence from the Sudan seasonal migration |
| 1989 | Schendel, Diana E. | Sex differences in factors associated with body fatness in western Samoans |
| 1988 | Chang, Diana K.L. | Effects of education on the job satisfaction of women in Taiwan: a path analytic approach |
| 1988 | Cooney, Teresa M. | School and work transitions in young adulthood: the influence of prior and concurrent family conditions |
| 1988 | Hoque, M.D. Nazrul | Rural electrification and its impact on fertility: evidence from Bangladesh |
| 1987 | Farmer, Frank L. | The ecology of poverty and mortality: impacts throughout the life range |
| 1987 | Harer, Miles D. | Relative deprivation and crime: the effects of income inequality on black and white arrest rates |
| 1987 | Horton, Hayward D. | A demographic analysis of black entrepreneurs |
| 1987 | Root, Brenda Davis | A family migration model: development and empirical application in the Philippines |
| 1986 | Kennedy, John M. | Changes in the selectivity of interregional migrants: 1970-1983 |
| 1986 | Sraiheen, Abdulwahab A. | The economic determinants of number, timing, and spacing of children and labor force participation in Jordan: a case study |
| 1986 | Teo, Peggy C. | The dimensions of poverty and their relationship to fertility in peninsular Malaysia |
| 1986 | Zimmerman, Delore | The mobilization of territorial alliances to enhance economic development |
| 1985 | Brace, Kathy D. | Agricultural chemical use, type of farm production, and farm county cancer mortality in the rural United States: an ecological model |
| 1985 | Crews, Douglas E. | Mortality, survivorship and longevity in American Samoa, 1950 to 1981 |
| 1985 | Hoffman, W. Dean | Metropolitan functional specialization, transportation and gasoline consumption |
| 1985 | Hsieh, Yeu-Sheng | Occupational incongruity and job dissatisfaction in Taiwan |
| 1985 | Poindexter, John R. | An ecological model of mortality in nonmetropolitan counties of the United States |
| 1985 | Shockey, James W. | The utilization of labor: composition and consequences of underemployment in the United States |
| 1983 | Brittain, Ann W. | Migration from St. Barthelemy, French West Indies |
| 1983 | James, Alice | Marriage patterns on Saint Barthelemy, French West Indies |
| 1983 | Novak, John A. | Maintenance of a birth control method: the effects of attitude and distance on first-time users in Santiago, Dominican Republic |
| 1982 | Gage, Timothy B. | Ecological theories of diet and food production: a case study of Samoan subsistence agriculture |
| 1981 | Chou, Bih-Er | A contextual analysis of fertility behavior in a sample of Thai villages |
| 1981 | Cornwell, Gretchen | The influence of premarital employment and education on the fertility of rural Philippine farm women |
| 1981 | Fry, Peggy A. | Changing patterns of marriage and reproduction in a depopulating Caribbean society |
| 1981 | Hanson, Sandra L. | A dynamic, family life cycle approach to the socioeconomic attainment and mobility of married women |
| 1981 | Lee, Sang-Gon | An economic analysis of the decline in rural farm fertility in the United States: 1940-1970 |
| 1981 | Suwan, Manat | Resettlement of population following the dam construction: the case of Srinagarind Dam, Thailand |
| 1980 | Hunter, Stanley R. | Land, the utilities of children and human fertility: an example from a rice producing region of the Philippines |
| 1980 | Keppel, Kenneth G. | Implications of the development of nonmetropolitan areas for gross in-migration rates and for the characteristics of in-migrants |
| 1980 | Krannich, Richard S. | Local social action and community growth: the impact of the growth machine on population change in small urban places, 1973-1978 |
| 1980 | Nelson, Merwyn R. | The relationship between level of living and fertility among a rural population in the Philippines |
| 1980 | Porter, Elaine K. | Social-psychological and communication factors in discontinuance of birth control use in the Dominican Republic |
| 1980 | Ron, Zvi | Agricultural variation and household behavior: a microeconomic analysis of human fertility among Thai rice farm families |
| 1979 | Brennan, Ellen | Kinship, demographic, social, and geographic characteristics of mate choice in a small human population |
| 1979 | Chalamwong, Yongyuth | Land, income, wealth, and human fertility among rural farm families in the central plain of Thailand |
| 1979 | Rizk, Ibrahim A. | The influence of infant and child mortality on the reproductive behavior of women in rural Egypt: combining individual and community-level data |
| 1979 | Rudnicki, Ryan E. | Peopling industrial america: formation of Italian and Polish settlements in the manufacturing heartland of the United States, 1880-1930 |
| 1978 | Bencloski, Joseph W. | Changes in the spatial variation of Pennsylvania fertility rates, 1960-1970 |
| 1978 | Verstraete, Anthony A. | Depopulation and social change: a study of a French rural community |
| 1977 | Bush, Trudy L. | The influence of family constellation variables on completed fertility: a longitudinal analysis of the effects of birth order, sex of respondent, sex of siblings, and size of family of orientation in conjunction with certain personality factors |
| 1977 | Harbison, Sarah F. | Determinants of nuptiality and fertility in a small population |
| 1977 | Houseknecht, Sharon K. | Wives but not mothers: factors influencing the decision to remain voluntarily childless |
| 1977 | Johnson, Nan E. | Farm-nonfarm differentials in fertility: the effects of compositional and sex-role factors |
| 1977 | Krout, John A. | Net migration change in U.S. nonmetropolitan counties between the 1960's and 1970's: an examination of three alternative hypotheses |
| 1977 | Leslie, Paul W. | Mating structure and the genetics of small human populations |
| 1977 | Sell, Ralph R. | Household and neighborhood factors in migration: a motivational decision-making analysis |
| 1977 | Srisawas, Narong | Factors associated with internal migration in Thailand, 1960-1970 |
| 1976 | Dutt, James S. | Altitude and fertility: the Bolivian case |
| 1976 | Gillaspy, Ronald Tom | Dynamics of sex mix and desired family size |
| 1976 | Leiker, Karl K. | Spatial images and the mobility decision process: a cognitive behavioral investigation of great plains outmigration |
| 1974 | McAuley, William James | The age differential in residential mobility: a multivariate analysis |
| 1974 | O'Donnell, Dennis J. | The micro-economics of completed family size--a simultaneous equations approach |
| 1973 | Ahmad, Zafar M. | Explorations in the dynamics of demographic system interrelationships during demographic transition |
| 1973 | Glamser, Francis D. | The efficacy of pre-retirement preparation programs for industrial workers |
| 1973 | Horlacher, David E. | Econometric estimation of the benefits of family planning in India |
| 1973 | Kidane, Asmerom | The demand and price structure for selected food products in Ethiopia: an econometric and spectral analysis |
| 1973 | Larkin, Robert P. | Out-migration from Altoona, Pennsylvania: mobility response to changing opportunities |
| 1973 | Peters, Gary L. | The sex selectivity of Appalachian migration, 1955-1960 |
| 1972 | Fuller, Gary A. | The spatial diffusion of birth control in Chile |
| 1972 | Hoff, Charles J. | Preliminary observations on altitudinal variations in the physical growth and development of Peruvian Quechua |
| 1972 | Kahley, William J. | Family planning in Colombia: an analysis of cost and achievement |
| 1971 | Florin, John W. | Death in New England: an analysis in time and space |
| 1969 | Monmonier, Mark S. | On the use of digitized map sampling and measurement: an example in crop ecology |
| 1969 | Stinner, William F. | Modernization, nuptiality, and fertility in Latin America: an assessment of causal inference models |
| 1968 | Field, Donald R. | The impact of employment alternatives on a growing rural community |
| 1964 | Demko, George J. | The Russian colonization of Kazakhstan: 1896-1916 |
