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PRInformation
Fall 2003
Selected Publications
Amato, P.R. and D. Previti (2003). "People's Reasons for Divorcing: Gender, Social Class, the Life Course, and Adjustment." Journal of Family Issues 24(5):602-626.
Anstey, K.J., S.M. Hofer and M.A. Luszcz (2003). "Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Patterns of Dedifferentiation in Late-Life Cognitive and Sensory Function: The Effects of Age, Ability, Attrition, and Occasions of Measurement." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 132:470-487.
Blair, C. (2003). "Behavioral Inhibition and Behavioral Activation in Young Children: Relations with Self-Regulation and Adaptation to Preschool in Children Attending Head Start." Developmental Psychobiology 42(3):301-311.
Blair, C. and R. Peters (2003). "Physiological and Neurocognitive Correlates of Adaptive Behavior in Preschool among Children in Head Start." Developmental Neuropsychology 24(1):479-497.
Blaum, C.S., M.B. Ofstedal, K.M. Langa and L.A. Wray (2003). "Functional Status and Health Outcomes in Older Americans with Diabetes Mellitus." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 51(6):745-753.
Brandon, D.T., K.E. Whitfield, J.J. Sollers, S.A. Wiggins, S.G. West, G.P. Vogler, G.E. McClearn and J.F. Thayer (2003). "Genetic and Environmental Influences on Blood Pressure and Pulse Pressure among Adult African Americans." Ethnicity and Disease 13(2):193-199.
Brannan, A.M., C.A. Heflinger and E.M. Foster (2003). "The Role of Caregiver Strain and Other Family Variables in Determining Children's Use of Mental Health Services." Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 11(2):77-91.
Brutsaert, T.D., E.J. Parra, M.D. Shriver, A. Gamboa, J. Palacios, M. Rivera, I. Rodriguez and F. Leon-Velarde (2003). "Spanish Genetic Admixture Is Associated with Larger Vo(2) (Max) Decrement from Sea Level to 4,338 M in Peruvian Quechua." Journal of Applied Physiology 95(2)519-528.
Burton, L.M. and K.E. Whitfield (2003). "Weathering towards Poorer Health in Later Life: Co-Morbidity in Low Income Urban Families." Public Policy and Aging Report 13(3).
Cohan, C.L. (2003). "If the Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil, Can Love and Money Go Together in a Happy Marriage?." Contemporary Psychology 48:211-213.
Cohen, J.H. (2003). "Local Dynamics in Multi-Local, Transnational Spaces of Rural Mexico: Oaxacan Experiences." International Journal of Population Geography 9(2):141-161.
Conroy, D.E., J.N. Metzler and S.M. Hofer (2003). "Factorial Invariance and Latent Mean Stability of Performance Failure Appraisals." Structural Equation Modeling 10(3):401-422.
Crimmins, E.M., M. Johnston, M.D. Hayward and T.E. Seeman (2003). "Age Differences in Allostatic Load: An Index of Physiological Dysregulation." Experimental Gerontology 38(7):731-734.
Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (2003). Focus on Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage. New York: Springer.
Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (2003). "Prospects for Retirement Resources in an Aging Society." In Crystal, S. and D.G. Shea (Eds.), Focus on Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage. New York: Springer.
Davison, K.K., E.J. Susman and L.L. Birch (2003). "Percent Body Fat at Age 5 Predicts Earlier Pubertal Development among Girls at Age 9." Pediatrics 111(4):815-821.
Drago, R. and D. Hyatt (2003). "Symposium: The Effect of Work-Family Policies on Employees and Employers." Industrial Relations 42(2):139-144.
Drago, R. and R. Kashian (2003). "Mapping the Terrain of Work/Family Journals." Journal of Family Issues 24(4):488-512.
Dush, C.M., C.L. Cohan and P.R. Amato (2003). "The Relationship between Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability: Change across Cohorts?." Journal of Marriage and Family 65:539-549.
Fachin, S., D.G. Shea and M. Vichi (2002). "Exploring 3D Datasets: A Factorial Matrices Analysis of the US Industry in the 1980's." Applied Economics 34(3):295-304.
Farkas, G. (2003). "Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits and Behaviors in Stratification Processes." Annual Review of Sociology 29:541-562.
Farkas, G. (2003). "Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?." Teachers College Record 105(6):1119-1146.
Felson, R.B., J. Ackerman and S. Yeon (2003). "The Infrequency of Family Violence." Journal of Marriage and the Family 65(3):622-634.
Fernandez, J.R., M.D. Shriver, T.M. Beasley, N. Rafla-Demetrious, E. Parra, J. Albu, B. Nicklas, A.S. Ryan, P.M. McKeigue, C.L. Hoggart, R.L. Weinsier and D.B. Allison (2003). "Association of African Genetic Admixture with Resting Metabolic Rate and Obesity among Women." Obesity Research 11(7):904-911.
Finke, R. and P. Schwadel (2003). "Religion and Religious Affiliation." In Dictionary of American History. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Finke, R. and R. Stark (2003). "The Dynamics of Religious Economies." In Dillon, M., Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Finke, R., L.R. Iannaccone and R. Stark (2002). "Market Constraints and Religious Vitality." Inchiesta 32(136):88-97.
Firebaugh, G. (2003). The New Geography of Global Income Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Firebaugh, G. (2003). "The New Geography of Income Distribution in the World [in German]." In Miller, W. and S. Scherer (Eds.), Expanding Markets, Welfare State Retrenchment, and Their Impact on Social Stratification. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag.
Fitzgerald, J.T., L.D. Gruppen, L.A. Wray, B.R. Shay and R.N. Anderson (2003). "Measuring Perceptions of Diabetes-Related Concepts: A Preliminary Study." Diabetes Educator 29(3):480-487.
Flanagan, C.A. (2003). "Trust, Identity, and Civic Hope." Applied Developmental Science 7(3):165-171.
Flanagan, C.A. (2003). "Developmental Roots of Political Engagement." PS-Political Science & Politics 36(2):257-261.
Flanagan, C.A. and B. Campbell (2003). "Social Class and Adolescents' Beliefs about Justice in Different Social Orders: The Psychological Meaning of Social Class." Journal of Social Issues 59(4):711-732.
Flanagan, C.A. and B.E. Van Horn (2003). "Youth Civic Development: A Logical Next Step in Community Youth Development." In Villarruel, F.A., D.F. Perkins, L.M. Borden and J.G. Keith, Community Youth Development: Practice, Policy, and Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Flanagan, K.S., K.L. Bierman, C.M. Kam, J.D. Coie, K.A. Dodge, E.M. Foster, M.T. Greenberg, J.E. Lochman, R.J. McMahon and E. Pinderhughes (2003). "Identifying at-Risk Children at School Entry: The Usefulness of Multibehavioral Problem Profiles." Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 32(3):396-407.
Foster, E.M., K.A. Dodge and D. Jones (2003). "Issues in the Economic Evaluation of Prevention Programs." Applied Developmental Science 7(2):76-86.
Gower, B., J.R. Fernandez, T.M. Beasley, M.D. Shriver and M.I. Goran (2003). "Using Genetic Admixture to Explain Racial Differences in Insulin-Related Phenotypes." Diabetes 52(4):1047-.
Granger, D.A. and K.T. Kivlighan (2003). "Integrating Biological, Behavioral, and Social Levels of Analysis in Early Child Development: Progress, Problems, and Prospects." Child Development 74(4):1058-1063.
Granger, D.A., E.A. Shirtcliff, C. Zahn-Waxler, B.A. Usher, B. Klimes-Dougan and P.D. Hastings (2003). "Salivary Testosterone Diurnal Variation and Psychopathology in Adolescent Males and Females: Individual Differences and Developmental Effects." Development and Psychopathology 15(2):431-449.
Granger, D.A., N.A. Dreschel and E.A. Shirtcliff (2003). "Developmental Psychoneuroimmunology: The Role of Cytokine Network Activation in the Epigenesis of Developmental Psychopathology." In Cicchetti, D. and E. Walker, Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms in Psychopathology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Heiman, N., M.C. Stallings, J.K. Hewitt and S.M. Hofer (2003). "Investigating Age Differences in the Genetic and Environmental Structure of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire in Later Adulthood." Behavior Genetics 33(2):171-180.
Hillemeier, M., J.C. Lynch, S. Harper, T.E. Raghunathan and G.A. Kaplan (2003). "Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty: A State-Level Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality." American Journal of Public Health 93(4):652-657.
Hofer, S.M., S. Berg and P. Era (2003). "Evaluating the Interdependence of Aging-Related Changes in Visual and Auditory Acuity, Balance, and Cognitive Functioning." Psychology and Aging 18(2):285-305.
Hoggart, C.J., E.J. Parra, M.D. Shriver, C. Bonilla, R.A. Kittles, D.G. Clayton and P.M. McKeigue (2003). "Control of Confounding of Genetic Associations in Stratified Populations." American Journal of Human Genetics 72(6):1492-1504.
Holman, D.J. (2003). mle: A Programming Language for Building Likelihood Models. Version 2.1.
Holman, D.J., K.A. O'Connor and J.W. Wood (2002). "Estimating Age-at-Death Distributions from Skeletal Samples: A Multivariate Latent Trait Approach." In Hoppa R. and J. Vaupel, Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jenkins, K.R., N.H. Fultz, S.J. Fonda and L.A. Wray (2003). "Patterns of Body Weight in Middle-Aged and Older Americans, by Gender and Race, 1993-2000." Sozial-Und Praventivmedizin 48(4):257-268.
Jensen, L. and T. Slack. 2003. "Underemployment in America: Measurement and Evidence." American Journal of Community Psychology, 32(1/2):21-31.
Johnson, P.L. (2002). "The Women Left Behind: Potential Effects of Male Migrants' Return on Women's Fertility and Health in Bangladesh." In Cohen, J.H. and N. Danhaeuser, Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Kandel, W. and D. Post (2003). "After School Work in Mexico: Competing for Children's Time Success." International Journal of Educational Development 23(3):299-314.
Kawasaki, K. and K.M. Weiss (2003). "Mineralized Tissue and Vertebrate Evolution: The Secretory Calcium-Binding Phosphoprotein Gene Cluster." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(7):4060-4065.
Kerin, T.K., G.P. Vogler, D.A. Blizard, J.T. Stout, G.E. McClearn and D.J. Vandenbergh (2003). "Anogenital Distance Measures at Weaning is Correlated with Measures of Blood Chemistry and Behaviors in 450-Day-Old Female Mice." Physiology and Behavior 78(4-5):697-702.
King, G., R.K. Mallett and L.T. Kozlowski (2003). "African Americans' Attitudes toward Cigarette Excise Taxes." American Journal of Public Health 93(5):828-834.
King, V. (2003). "The Influence of Religion on Fathers' Relationships With Their Children." Journal of Marriage and Family 65:382-395.
Lee, B.A., T. Price-Spratlen and J.W. Kanan (2003). "Determinants of Homelessness in Metropolitan Areas." Journal of Urban Affairs 25(3):335-355.
Ménard, K.S. and R.B. Ruback (2003). "Prevalence and Processing of Child Sexual Abuse: A Multi-Data-Set Analysis of Urban and Rural Counties." Law and Human Behavior 27(4):385-402.
Monahan, J., K. Heilbrum, E. Silver, E. Nabors, J. Bone and P. Slovic (2002). "Communicating Violence Risk: Frequency Formats, Vivid Outcomes, and Forensic Settings." International Journal of Forensic Mental Health 1(2):121-126.
Monahan, J. and E. Silver (2003). "Judicial Decision Thresholds for Violence Risk Management." International Journal of Forensic Mental Health 2(1):1-6.
Ngomane, T. and C.A. Flanagan (2002). "Hope and Despair: Extension Agents in a Young Democracy." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 9(12):37-43.
O'Connor, K.A., E. Brindle, D.J. Holman, N.A. Klein, M.R. Soules, K.L. Campbell, F. Kohen, C.J. Munro, J.B. Shofer, W.L. Lasley and J.W. Wood (2003). "Urinary Estrone Conjugate and Pregnanediol-3-Glucuronide Enzyme-Immunoassays for Population Research." Clinical Chemistry 49(7):1139-1148.
Pedersen, N.L., S. Ripatti, S. Berg, C. Reynolds, S.M. Hofer, D. Finkel, M. Gatz and J. Palmgren (2003). "The Influence of Mortality on Twin Models of Change: Addressing Missingness through Multiple Imputation." Behavior Genetics 33(2):161-169.
Pong, S., J. Dronkers and G. Hampden-Thompson (2003). "Family Policies and Children's School Achievement in Single-Versus Two-Parent Families." Journal of Marriage and the Family 65(3):681-699.
Preston, S.H., I.T. Elo, M.E. Hill and I. Rosenwaike (2003). The Demography of African Americans, 1930-1990. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Previti, D. and P.R. Amato (2003). "Why Stay Married? Rewards, Barriers, and Marital Instability." Journal of Marriage and Family 65:561-573.
Reardon, S.F. and J.T. Yun (2003). "Integrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000." North Carolina Law Review 81(4):1563-1596.
Reardon, S.F. and J.T. Yun (2003). "Private School Racial Enrollments and Segregation." In Kahlenberg, R.D., Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers. New York: Century Foundation Press.
Ribar, D.C. and M.O. Wilhelm (2002). "Altruistic and Joy-of-Giving Motivations in Charitable Behavior." Journal of Political Economy 110(2):425-457.
Robinson, W. (2002). "Population Policy in Early Victorian England." European Journal of Population/Revue europeenne de demographie 18(2):153-173.
Rogers, S.J. and D.C. May (2003). "Spillover between Marital Quality and Job Satisfaction: Long-Term Patterns and Gender Differences." Journal of Marriage and the Family 65(2):482-495.
Ruback, R.B. (2002). Restitution in Pennsylvania: A Multimethod Investigation. Erie, PA. Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
Sambamoorthi, U., D. Shea and S. Crystal. (2003). "Total and out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Prescription Drugs among Older Persons." The Gerontologist 43(3):345-359.
Sarton-Miller, I., D.J. Holman and H. Spielvogel (2003). "Regression-Based Prediction of Net Energy Expenditure in Children Performing Activities at High Altitude." American Journal of Human Biology 15:554-565.
Schoen, R. (2002). "Union Disruption in the United States." International Journal of Sociology 32(4):36-50.
Schoen, R. (2003). "Dynamic Populations With Uniform Natural Increase Across States." Mathematical Population Studies 10:195-210.
Schoen, R. and S.H. Jonsson (2003). "Estimating Multistate Transition Rates from Population Distributions." Demographic Research 9:1-24.
Shapiro, D. (2003). "Family Influences on Women's Educational Attainment in Kinshasa." In Cosio, M. et al., Education, Family and Population Dynamics. Paris: Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED).
Shapiro, D. and B.O. Tambashe (2003). Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Shapiro, D. and B.O. Tambashe (2003). "Villes et transition de la fécondité en Afrique au sud du Sahara." In Eggerickx, T. et al., Populations et défis urbains. Actes de la Chaire Quetelet 1999 (selected papers from the annual Chaire Quetelet symposium in demography. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Academia-Bruylant/L'Harmattan.
Shapiro, D., D. Meekers and B.O. Tambashe (2003). "An Evaluation of the 'SIDA dans la Cité' AIDS Prevention Television Series in Côte d'Ivoire." AIDS Care 15(3):303-314.
Short, P.F., D.G. Shea and M.P. Powell (2003). "Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age Sixty-Five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform." Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law 28(1):41-76.
Shriver, M.D., E.J. Parra, S. Dios, C. Bonilla, H. Norton, C. Jovel, C.L. Pfaff, C. Jones, A. Massac, N. Cameron, A. Baron, T. Jackson, G. Argyropoulos, L. Jin, C.J. Hoggart, P.M. McKeigue and R.A. Kittles (2003). "Skin Pigmentation, Biogeographical Ancestry and Admixture Mapping." Human Genetics 112(4):387-399.
Shuey, K. and M.A. Hardy (2003). "Assistance to Aging Parents and Parents-in-Law: Does Lineage Affect Family Allocation Decisions?." Journal of Marriage and Family 65(2):418-431.
Spanier, G.B. (2003). "Bats, Owls, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night." EDUCAUSE Review 38(3):8-9.
Stark, R. and R. Finke (2002). "Beyond Church and Sect: Dynamics and Stability in Religious Economies." In Jelen, T.G., Sacred Markets and Sacred Canopies: Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Steffensmeier, D. and J. Ulmer (2003). "Confessions of a Dying Thief: A Tutorial on Differential Association." In Akers, R.L. and G.F. Jensen, Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime: A Guide for the New Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
Stokes, C.S. (2002). Measuring Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Rural Livelihoods and Food Security. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Susman, E.J., L.D. Dorn and V.L. Schiefelbein (2003). "Puberty, Sexuality, and Health." In Lerner, R.M. and M.A. Easterbrooks, Handbook of Psychology: Developmental Psychology, Vol. 6. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
Uhrig, J.D. and P.F. Short (2002). "Testing the Effect of Quality Reports on the Health Plan Choices of Medicare Beneficiaries." Inquiry 39(4):355-371.
Ukwuani, F.A., G.T. Cornwell and C.M. Suchindran (2002). "Polygyny and Child Survival in Nigeria: Age-Dependent Effects." Journal of Population Research 19(2):155-171.
Vandenbergh, D.J., K.A. Anthony and K.E. Whitfield (2003). "Optimizing DNA Yield from Buccal Swabs in the Elderly: Attempts to Promote Buccal Cell Growth in Culture." American Journal of Human Biology 15:1-7.
Weiss, K.M. and A.V. Buchanan (2003). "Evolution by Phenotype: A Biomedical Perspective." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46(2):159-182.
Whitfield, K.E. (2003). "Sources of Individual Differences in Indices of Health Disparities among Older African Americans." Phylon.
Whitfield, K.E. and M.D. Hayward (2003). "The Landscape of Health Disparities in Older Adults." Public Policy and Aging Report 13(3).
Whitfield, K.E. and S.A. Wiggins (2003). "Educational Influences on Cognitive Aging among African Americans: Quantity and Quality." Journal of Black Psychology 2:275-291.
Whitfield, K.E. and S.A. Wiggins (2003). "The Impact of Desegregation on Cognition among Older African Americans." Journal of Black Psychology 29(3):275-291.
Whitfield, K.E., D.T. Brandon and S.A. Wiggins (2003). "Genetics and Health Disparities: Fears and Realities." Journal of the National Medical Association 95(7):539-543.
Whitfield, K.E., D.T. Brandon, S.A. Wiggins, G.P. Voglerand G.E. McClearn (2003). "Does Intact Pair Status Matter in the Study of African American Twins?: The Carolina African American Twin Study of Aging." Experimental Aging Research 29(4):1-17.
Whitfield, K.E., G. Weidner, R. Clark and N.B. Anderson (2003). "Cultural Aspects of Health Psychology." In Nezu, A.M. and C.M. Nezu, Handbook of Psychology: Health Psychology, Vol. 9. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Wilson, M.S. and R.B. Ruback (2003). "Hate Crimes in Pennsylvania, 1984-99: Case Characteristics and Police Responses." Justice Quarterly 20(2):373-398.
Wood, J.W., D.J. Holman, K.A. O'Connor and R.J. Ferrell (2002). "Models of Human Mortality." In Hoppa R.D. and J.W. Vaupel, Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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