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Editor:
Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Fall 2002
Selected Publications
Akey, J.M., D. Sosnoski, E. Parra, S. Dios, K. Hiester, B. Su, C. Bonilla, L. Jin, and M.D. Shriver (2001). "Melting Curve Analysis of SNPs (McSNP): A Gel-Free and Inexpensive Approach for SNP Genotyping." Biotechniques 30(2):358-362+.
Albelda, R., R. Drago, and S. Shulman (2001). Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination. Cambridge, Mass: Economic Affairs Bureau.
Amato, P.R. (2002). "Good Enough Marriages: Parental Discord, Divorce, and Children's Well-Being." Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 9:71-94.
Amato, P.R. and F. Fowler (2002). "Parenting Practices, Child Adjustment, and Family Diversity." Journal of Marriage and Family 64(3):703-716.
Astiz, M.F., A.W. Wiseman, and D.P. Baker (2002). "Slouching Towards Decentralization: Consequences of Globalization for Curricular Control in National Education Systems." Comparative Education Review 46(1):66-88.
Avery, R.B. and M.S. Rendall (2002). "Lifetime Inheritances of Three Generations of Whites and Blacks." American Journal of Sociology 107(5):1300-1346.
Baker, T.A. and K.E. Whitfield (2002). "Arthritis, Depression and Pain: A Biobehavioral Relationship in Older African Americans." African American Research Perspectives 8(1):60-71.
Bateup, H.S., A. Booth, E.A. Shirtcliff, and D.A. Granger (2002). "Testosterone, Cortisol, and Women's Competition." Evolution and Human Behavior 23(3):181-192.
Beekman, M., B.T. Heijmans, N.G. Martin, N.L. Pedersen, J.B. Whitfield, U. DeFaire, G.C. van Baal, H. Snieder, G.P. Vogler, et al. (2002). "Heritabilities of Apolipoprotein and Lipid Levels in Three Countries." Twin Research 5(2):87-97.
Blair, C. (2002). "Early Intervention for Low Birth Weight, Preterm Infants: The Role of Negative Emotionality in the Specification of Effects." Development and Psychopathology 14(2):311-332.
Blair, C. and D. Wahlsten (2002). "Why Early Intervention Works: A Reply to Baumeister and Bacharach." Intelligence 30(2):129-140.
Blair, C. and K.G. Scott (2002). "Proportion of LD Placements Associated with Low Socioeconomic Status: Evidence for a Gradient?" The Journal of Special Education 36(1):14-22.
Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter (2002). Just Living Together: Implications of Cohabitation for Children, Families, and Social Policy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Booth, A., A.C. Crouter, and M. Clements (2001). Couples in Conflict. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Briesacher, B., B. Stuart, J. Doshi, S. Kamal-Bahl, and D.G. Shea (2002). Medicare's Disabled Beneficiaries: The Forgotten Population in the Debate Over Drug Benefits. The Commonwealth Fund and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Chen, L.W. and D.G. Shea (2002). "Does Prospective Payment Really Contain Nursing Home Costs?." Health Services Research 37(2):251-271.
Colbert, L.H., T.J. Hartman, J.A. Tangrea, et al. (2002). "Physical Activity and Lung Cancer Risk in Male Smokers." International Journal of Cancer 98(5):770-773.
Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (2002). Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Springer Publishing.
Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (2002). "Conclusion: Prospects for Retirement Resources in an Aging Society." In Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (Eds.), Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Springer Publishing.
Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (2002). "Introduction: Cumulative Advantage, Public Policy, and Inequality in Later Life." In Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (Eds.), Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Springer Publishing.
Drago, R. (2001). "Time on the Job and Time with Their Kids: Cultures of Teaching and Parenthood in the U.S.." Feminist Economics 7(3):1-31.
Drago, R. (2002). "Childcare and the 'Care Gap' in the United States and Australia." Australian Economic Review 214-220.
Eggebeen, D.J. (2002). "The Changing Course of Fatherhood: Men's Experiences with Children in Demographic Perspective." Journal of Family Issues 23(4):486-506.
Eloundou-Enyegue, P.M. and C.S. Stokes (2002). "Will Economic Crises in Africa Weaken Rural-Urban Ties? Insights from Child Fosterage Trends in Cameroon." Rural Sociology 67(2):278-298.
Farley, D., P.F. Short, M. Elliott, D. Kanouse, J. Brown, R. Hays (2002). "Effects of CAHPS Health Plan Performance Information on Plan Choices by New Jersey Medicaid Beneficiaries." Health Services Research 37(4):985-1007.
Farley, D.O., M.N. Elliott, P.F. Short, P. Damiano, D.E. Kanouse, and R.D. Hays (2002). "Effect of CAHPS Performance Information on Health Plan Choices by Iowa Medicaid Beneficiaries." Medical Care Research and Review 59(3):319-336.
Faulkner, S.L. and P.K. Mansfield (2002). "Reconciling Messages: The Process of Sexual Talk for Latinas." Qualitative Health Research 12(3):310-328.
Felson, R.B. (2002). Violence & Gender Reexamined. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Felson, R.B., S.F. Messner, A.W. Hoskin, and G. Deane (2002). "Reasons For Reporting and Not Reporting Domestic Violence to the Police." Criminology 40(3):617-647.
Findeis, J., J. Anton, C. Weiss, and K. Saito (2001). Agricultural Policy Reform and Farm Employment. Paris: OECD.
Foster, E.M. and E.W. Holden (2002). "Benefit-Cost Analyses of the Child Welfare Demonstration Projects: Understanding the Resource Implications of the IV-E Waivers." Children and Youth Services Review 24(6-7):431-453.
Gorman, B.K., N.S. Landale, and R.S. Oropesa (2001). "Poverty, Insurance, and Well-Baby Care among Mainland Puerto Rican Children." Social Biology 48:67-85.
Hill, M.E. (2002). "Race of the Interviewer and Perception of Skin Color: Evidence from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality." American Sociological Review 67(1):99-108.
Hill, M.E. (2002). "Skin Color and the Perception of Attractiveness among African Americans: Does Gender Make a Difference?." Social Psychology Quarterly 65(1):77-91.
Hlusko, L.J., K.M. Weiss, and M.C. Mahaney (2002). "Statistical Genetic Comparison of Two Techniques for Assessing Molar Crown Size in Pedigreed Baboons." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117(2):183-189.
Holden, E.W., S.R. O'Connell, T. Connor, A.M. Brannan, E.M. Foster, G. Blau, and H. Panciera (2002). "Evaluation of the Connecticut Title IV-E Waiver Program: Assessing the Effectiveness, Implementation Fidelity, and Cost/Benefits of a Continuum of Care." Children and Youth Services Review 24(6-7):409-430.
Horan, R.D., J.S. Shortle, and D.G. Abler (2002). "Ambient Taxes Under m-Dimensional Choice Sets, Heterogeneous Expectations, and Risk-Aversion." Environmental and Resource Economics 21(2):189-202.
Jayakody, R. and A. Kalil (2002). "Social Fathering in Low-Income, African American Families with Preschool Children." Journal of Marriage and Family 64(2):504-516.
Jayakody, R. and N. Cabrera (2002). "What Are the Choices for Low-Income Families?: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Remaining Single." In Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter (Eds.), Just Living Together: Implications of Cohabitation for Children, Families, and Social Policy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
King, G., A. Polednak, R. Cooper, R. Bendel, and A. Woodruff (2001). "Smoking in Maywood and the Unhealthy Southern Migrant Hypothesis among African Americans." Ethnicity and Disease 11(3):540-547.
King, V. (2002). "Parental Divorce and Interpersonal Trust in Adult Offspring." Journal of Marriage and Family 64(3):642-656.
Kozlowski, L.T., G.P. Vogler, D.J. Vandenbergh, A.A. Strasser, R.J. O'Connor, and B.A. Yost (2002). "Using a Telephone Survey to Acquire Genetic and Behavioral Data Related to Cigarette Smoking in "Made-Anonymous" and "Registry" Samples." American Journal of Epidemiology 156(1):68-77.
Landale, N.S. and R.S. Oropesa (2002). "White, Black or Puerto Rican? Racial Self-Identification among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans." Social Forces 81:231-254.
Lichter, D.T., D.K. McLaughlin, and D.C. Ribar (2002). "Economic Restructuring and the Retreat from Marriage." Social Science Research 31(2):230-256.
Mazur, A., U. Mueller, W. Krause, and A. Booth (2002). "Causes of Sexual Decline in Aging Married Men: Germany and America." International Journal of Impotence Research 14(2):101-106.
Moffett, S., J. Martinson, M.D. Shriver, et al. (2002). "Genetic Diversity and Evolution of the Human Leptin Locus Tetranucleotide Repeat." Human Genetics 110(5):412-417.
Myers, S.M. and A. Booth (2002). "Forerunners of Change in Nontraditional Gender Ideology." Social Psychology Quarterly 65(1):18-37.
Nelson, T.L., D.T. Brandon, S.A. Wiggins, and K.E. Whitfield (2002). "Genetic and Environmental Influences on Body-Fat Measures among African-American Twins." Obesity Research 10(8):733-739.
Oropesa, R.S., N.S. Landale, and A.L. Davila (2001). "Poverty, Prenatal Care, and Infant Health in Puerto Rico." Social Biology 48:44-66.
Parra, E.J., R.A. Kittles, G. Argyropoulos, C.L. Pfaff, K. Hiester, C. Bonilla, N. Sylvester, D. Parrish-Gause, W.T. Garvey, L. Jin, P.M. McKeigue, M.I. Kamboh, R.E. Ferrell, W.S. Pollitzer, and M.D. Shriver (2001). "Ancestral Proportions and Admixture Dynamics in Geographically Defined African Americans Living in South Carolina." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 114(1):18-29.
Pienta, A.M. and M.D. Hayward (2002). "Who Expects to Continue Working after Age 62? The Retirement Plans of Couples." Journals of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 57b(4):S199-S208.
Pollack, H.A., S. Danziger, K.S. Seefeldt, and R. Jayakody (2002). "Substance Use among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses." Social Service Review 76(2):256-274.
Reardon, S.F. and G. Firebaugh (2002). "Measures of Multigroup Segregation." In Stolzenberg, R. (Ed.), Sociological Methodology 2002. Boston and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Reardon, S.F. and G. Firebaugh (2002). "Response: Segregation and Social Distance -- A Generalized Approach to Segregation Measurement." In Stolzenberg, R. (Ed.), Sociological Methodology 2002. Boston and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Reardon, S.F. and J.T. Yun (2002). "Segregation in Church and State?: Vouchers and Racial Enrollment Patterns Among Public and Private Schools." Teachers College Record July 15.
Reardon, S.F., R.T Brennan, and S.L. Buka (2002). "Estimating Multi-Level Discrete-Time Hazard Models Using Cross-Sectional Data: Neighborhood Effects on the Onset of Adolescent Cigarette Use." Multivariate Behavioral Research 37(3): 297-330.
Ruback, R.B. and M.A. Thompson (2001). Social and Psychological Consequences of Violent Victimization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Shapiro, D. and B.O. Tambashe (2002). "Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Preliminary Evidence of a Three-Stage Process." Journal of African Policy Studies 8(2&3):103-127.
Shea, D.G. (2002). "Parity and Prescriptions: Policy Developments and Their Implications for Mental Health in Later Life." Generations 26(1):83-89.
Shea, D.G., B. Briesacher, B. Stuart, and J. Doshi (2002). Graying of Medicare's Disabled Population: Implication for a Medicare Drug Benefit. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Shepard Engel, R. (2002). "Patrol Officer Supervision in the Community Policing Era." Journal of Criminal Justice 30(1):51-64.
Shepard Engel, R., J.M. Calnon, and T.J. Bernard (2002). "Theory and Racial Profiling: Shortcomings and Future Directions in Research." Justice Quarterly 19(2):249-273.
Shirtcliff, E.A., D.A. Granger, and A. Likos (2002). "Gender Differences in the Validity of Testosterone Measured in Saliva by Immunoassay." Hormones and Behavior 42(1):62-69.
Short, P.F., L. McCormack, J. Hibbard, J.A. Shaul, L. Harris-Kojetin, M.H. Fox, P. Damiano, J. Uhrig, and P.D. Cleary (2002). "Similarities and Differences in Choosing Health Plans." Medical Care 40: 289-302.
Silver, E. (2001). Mental Illness and Violence: The Importance of Neighborhood Context. LFB Scholarly Publishing.
Silver, E. (2002). "Mental Disorder and Violent Victimization: The Mediating Role of Involvement in Conflicted Social Relationships." Criminology 40(1):191-212.
Silver, E. and L. Chow (2002). "A Multiple Models Approach to Assessing Recidivism Risk: Implications for Judicial Decision Making." Criminal Justice and Behavior 29(5):538-568.
Silver, E., E.P. Mulvey, and J.W. Swanson (2002). "Neighborhood Structural Characteristics and Mental Disorder: Faris and Dunham Revisited." Social Science and Medicine 55(8):1457-1470.
Slack, T. and L.I. Jensen (2002). "Race, Ethnicity, and Underemployment in Nonmetropolitan America: A 30-Year Profile." Rural Sociology 67(2):208-233.
Stengard, J.H., A.G. Clark, K.M. Weiss, S. Kardia, D.A. Nickerson, V. Salomaa, et al. (2002). "Contributions of 18 Additional DNA Sequence Variations in the Gene Encoding Apolipoprotein E to Explaining Variation in Quantitative Measures of Lipid Metabolism." American Journal of Human Genetics 71(3):501-517.
Terza, J.V. (2002). "Alcohol Abuse and Employment: A Second Look." Journal of Applied Econometrics 17(4):393-404.
Vandenbergh, D.J., C.J. Bennett, M.D. Grant, A.A. Strasser, R. O'Connor, G.P. Vogler, and L.T. Kozlowski (2002). "Smoking Status and the Human Dopamine Transporter Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR) Polymorphism: Failure to Replicate and Finding That Never-Smokers May Be Different." Nicotine and Tobacco Research 4(3):333-340.
Whitfield, K.E. (2002). "Challenges in Cognitive Assessment of African Americans in Research on Alzheimer's Disease." Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders 16(Suppl 2):S80-1.
Whitfield, K.E., and J.R. Harris (2002). "Preface: Advances in Gerogenetics." Experimental Aging Research 28(4):345-345.
Whitfield, K.E., D.T. Brandon, and W.A. Wiggins (2002). "Sociocultural Influences in Genetic Designs of Aging: Unexplored Perspectives." Experimental Aging Research 28(4):391-405.
Whitfield, K.E., G. Weidner, R. Clark, and N.B. Anderson (2002). "Sociodemographic Diversity and Behavioral Medicine." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 70(3):463-481.
Whitfield, K.E., T.A. Baker, and D.T. Brandon (2002). "Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention." In Schaie, K.W., H. Leventhal, and S. L. Willis (Eds.), Effective Health Behavior in Older Adults. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Woodson, K., S. Triantos, T.J. Hartman, et al. (2002). "Long-Term Alpha-Tocopherol Supplementation is Associated with Lower Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels." Anticancer Research 22(1A):375-378.
Wu, H., H. Wang, H. Li, J. Akey, F. Xiao, Y. Ke, H. Xu, J. Xiao, D. Lu, E. Parra, M.D. Shriver, et al. (2001). "Skin Reflectance in the Han Chinese and Tibetan Populations." Human Biology 73(3):461-466.
Zarit, S.H. and D.J. Eggebeen (2002). "Parent-Child Relationships in Adulthood and Later Years." In Bornstein, M.H. (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting: Vol. 1: Children and Parenting. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Zelinsky, W. (2001). The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma. University of Iowa Press.
Zelinsky, W. (2001). "The Uniqueness of the American Religious Landscape." Geographical Review 91(3):565-585.
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