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PRInformation
Fall 2005
Selected Publications
Abler, D.G. (2004). "Multifunctionality, Agricultural Policy, and Environmental Policy." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 33(1):8-17.
Almeida, D.M. (2005). "Resilience and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors Assessed via Diary Methods." Current Directions in Psychological Science 14(2):64-68.
Alwin, D.F. (2005). "Attitudes, Beliefs, and Childbearing." In Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter, The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Amato, P.R. (2005). "The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation." Future of Children 15:75-96.
Baker, D. (Ed.) (2004). Inequality Across Societies: Families, Schools and Persisting Stratification. Amsterdam: JAI.
Benjamin, A. (2005). "Ethnography." In Fisher, C.B. and R.M. Lerner, Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Bertelsen, A. and C.A. Flanagan (2005). "Political and Civic Development." In Fisher, C.B. and R.M. Lerner, Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Birditt, K.S., K.L. Fingerman and D.M. Almeida (2005). "Age Differences in Exposure and Reactions to Interpersonal Tensions: A Daily Diary Study." Psychology and Aging 20(2):330-340.
Blair, C., D.A. Granger and R. Peters (2005). "Cortisol Reactivity is Positively Related to Executive Function in Preschool Children Attending Head Start." Child Development 76(3):554-567.
Blair, C., P.D. Zelazo and M.T. Greenberg (2005). "The Measurement of Executive Function in Early Childhood." Developmental Neuropsychology 28(2):561-571.
Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter (Eds.) (2005). The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Booth, A., D.R. Johnson and D.A. Granger (2005). "Testosterone, Marital Quality, and Role Overload." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(2):483-498.
Briesacher, B.A., M.R. Limcangco, L. Simoni-Wastila, J.A. Doshi, S.R. Levens, D.G. Shea and B.C. Stuart (2005). "The Quality of Antipsychotic Drug Prescribing in Nursing Homes." Archives of Internal Medicine 165(11):1280-1285.
Bronte-Tinkew, J. and G.F. De Jong (2005). "Do Household Structure and Household Economic Resources Predict Childhood Immunization? Evidence from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago." Population Research and Policy Review 24(1):27-57.
Brutsaert, T.D., E.J. Parra, M.D. Shriver, A. Gamboa, M. Rivera and F. Leon-Velarde (2005). "Ancestry Explains the Blunted Ventilatory Response to Sustained Hypoxia and Lower Exercise Ventilation of Quechua Altitude Natives." American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 289(1):R225-R234.
Caldwell, L.L., E.A. Smith, L. Wegener, T. Vergnani, E. Mpofu, A.J. Flisher and C. Matthews (2004). "HealthWise South Africa: Development of a Life Skills Curriculum for Young Adults." World Leisure Journal 46:4-17.
Canudas-Romo, V. and R. Schoen (2005). "Age-Specific Contributions to Changes in the Period and Cohort Life Expectancy." Demographic Research 13:63-82.
Casterline, J.B. (2004). Unwanted Pregnancy and Post-Abortion Complications in Pakistan: Findings from a National Study. Islamabad: Population Council.
Casterline, J.B. and R. Roushdy (2005). Fertility Decline in Egypt: The Challenge of Achieving Replacement-Level Fertility. Cairo: Population Council.
Chade, H. and G. Ventura (2005). "Income Taxation and Marital Decisions." Review of Economics Dynamics 8(3):565-599.
Crouter, A.C., M.F. Bumpus, K.D. Davis and S.M. McHale (2005). "How Do Parents Learn about Adolescents' Experiences? Implications for Parental Knowledge and Adolescent Risky Behavior." Child Development 76(4):869-882.
Crouter, A.C., M.R. Head, S.M. McHale and C.J. Tucker (2004). "Family Time and the Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescent Siblings and Their Parents." Journal of Marriage and Family 66(1):147-162.
Davey, A., E.E. Femia, S.H. Zarit, D.G. Shea, G. Sundstrom, S. Berg, M.A. Smyer and J. Savla (2005). "Life on the Edge: Patterns of Formal and Informal Help to Older Adults in the United States and Sweden." Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 60(5):S281-S288.
De Jong, G.F., D.R. Graefe and T. St. Pierre (2005). "Welfare Reform and Interstate Migration of Poor Families." Demography 42(3):469-496.
Dodoo, F.N. and N. Beisel (2005). "Africa in American Sociology: Invisibility, Opportunity and Obligation." Social Forces 84(1):595-600.
Donnellan, M.B., R.D. Conger and C.M. Bryant (2004). "The Big Five and Enduring Marriages." Journal of Research in Personality 38(5):481-504.
Drago, R., Y. Tseng and M. Wooden (2005). "Usual and Preferred Working Hours in Couple Households." Journal of Family Studies 11(1):41-61.
Eggebeen, D.J. (2005). "Cohabitation and Exchanges of Support." Social Forces 83(3):1097-1110.
Fahrenwald, N.L., J.R. Atwood and D.R. Johnson (2005). "Mediator Analysis of Moms on the Move." Western Journal of Nursing Research 27(3):271-291.
Farkas, G. (2004). "Fixed Effects Models." In Kempf-Leonard, K., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Farkas, G. (2004). "School Readiness: Characteristics and Attributes." In Guthrie, J.W., The Encyclopedia of Education (2nd ed.). New York: Macmillan Reference.
Farkas, G. (2005). "Learning by Doing or Learning by Studying the History of Statistics?" Teaching Sociology 33(3):272-274.
Felson, R.B. (2004). "A Rational Choice Approach to Violence." In Zahn, M.A, H.H. Brownstein and S.L. Jackson, Violence: From Theory to Research. Anderson Publishing Company.
Felson, R.B. and K.B. Burchfield (2004). "Alcohol and the Risk of Physical and Sexual Assault Victimization." Criminology 42(4):837-859.
Felson, R.B. and P. Paré (2005). "The Reporting of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault by Nonstrangers to the Police." Journal of Marriage and the Family 67(3):597-610.
Felson, R.B., J. Ackerman and C. Gallagher (2005). "Police Intervention and the Repeat of Domestic Assault." Criminology 43(3):563-588.
Findeis, J.L., A.R. Snyder and A. Jayaraman (2005). "The Well-Being of U.S. Farm Workers: Employee Benefits, Public Assistance, and Long-Term Effects." Review of Agricultural Economics 27(3):361-368.
Finke, R. (2004). "Observing Religion and Health." In Schaie, K.W., N. Krause and A. Booth, Religious Influences on Health and Well-Being in the Elderly. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Finke, R. and C. Scheitle (2005). "Accounting for the Uncounted: Computing Correctives for the 2000 RCMS Data." Review of Religious Research 47:5-22.
Finke, R. and R. Stark (2005). The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy, Second Edition. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Flanagan, C.A. (2004). "Citizenship [Social Responsibility, Loyalty, Teamwork]." In Peterson, C. and M.E. Seligman, Values in Action Classification. Oxford University Press and American Psychological Association.
Flanagan, C.A., S. Gill and L.S. Gallay (2005). "Social Participation and Social Trust in Adolescence: The Importance of Heterogeneous Encounters." In Omoto, A., Processes of Community Change and Social Action. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Fonda, S.J., N.H. Fultz, K.R. Jenkins, L.M. Wheeler and L.A. Wray (2004). "Relationship of Body Mass and Net Worth for Retirement-Aged Men and Women." Research on Aging 26(1):153-176.
Fortner, M.R., A.C. Crouter and S.M. McHale (2004). "Is Parents' Work Involvement Responsive to the Quality of Relationships With Adolescent Offspring?" Journal of Family Psychology 18(3):530-538.
Freedman, R.J., N. Aziz, D. Albanes, T.J. Hartman, D. Danforth, S. Hill, N. Sebring, J.C. Reynolds and J.A. Yanovski (2004). "Weight and Body Composition Changes during and after Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Women with Breast Cancer." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 89(5):2248-2253.
Gifford, E.J., R.J. Weech-Maldonado and P.F. Short (2005). "Low-Income Children's Preventive Services Use: Implications of Parents' Medicaid Status." Health Care Financing Review 26(4):81-94.
Granger, D.A. and E.A. Shirtcliff (2005). "The Biosocial Model, Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, and Behavioral Science." In Schneider, B. and L. Waite, Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance. Cambridge University Press.
Granger, D.A. and E.A. Shirtcliff (2005). "Momentary Emotion and Cortisol Levels in the Everyday Lives of Working Parents." In Schneider, B. and L. Waite, Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance. Cambridge University Press.
Groves, R.M., E. Singer, J.M. Lepkowski, S.G. Heeringa and D.F. Alwin (2004). "Survey Methodology." In Juster, F.T., R.L. Kahn, H. Schuman, E. Singer and J.S. House, A Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Halpern, D.F., R. Drago and N. Boyle (2005). "How We Study Work-Family Interactions." In Murphy, S.E. and D.F. Halpern, From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Hampden-Thompson, G. and S. Pong (2005). "Does Family Policy Environment Moderate the Effect of Single-Parenthood on Children's Academic Achievement? A Study of 14 European Countries." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 36(2):227-248.
Hardy, M.A. (2004). "Summarizing Distributions." In Hardy, M.A. and A. Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis. London: Sage Publications.
Hardy, M.A. and J. Reynolds (2004). "Incorporating Categorical Information into Regression Analysis." In Hardy, M.A. and A. Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis. London: Sage Publications.
Hillemeier, M., J.C. Lynch, S. Harper and M. Casper (2004). Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Horan, R.D., J.S. Shortle and D.G. Abler (2004). "The Coordination and Design of Point-Nonpoint Trading Programs and Agri-environmental Policies." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 33(1):61-78.
King, G., R.K. Mallett, R.B. Bendel, F. Noubary and S.B. Nahata (2004). "The Master Settlement Agreement and African Americans: Opinions about the Allocation of Resources." Health Promotion Practice 5(3 (Suppl)):135S-142S.
King, V. and M.E. Scott (2005). "A Comparison of Cohabiting Relationships Among Older and Younger Adults." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(2):271-285.
Koch, P.B., P.K. Mansfield, D. Thurau and M. Carey (2005). "'Feeling Frumpy': The Relationships between Body Image and Sexual Response Changes in Midlife Women." Journal of Sex Research 42(3):215-223.
Landale, N.S. (2005). "The Changing Partnership Context of Parenthood: Where Do Researchers Go From Here?" In Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter, The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries are Shrinking and What it Means. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Landale, N.S. and R.S. Oropesa (2005). "What Does Skin Color Have To Do With Infant Health? An Analysis of Low Birth Weight Among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans." Social Science and Medicine 61(2):379-391.
Lang, D.H., N.A. Sharkey, A. Lionikas, H.A. Mack, L. Larsson, G.P. Vogler, D.J. Vandenbergh, D.A. Blizard, J.T. Stout, J.P. Stitt and G.E. McClearn (2005). "Adjusting Data to Body Size: A Comparison of Methods as Applied to Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis of Musculoskeletal Phenotypes." Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 20(5):748-757.
Lein, L., A. Benjamin, M. McManus and K.M. Roy (2005). "Economic Roulette: When Is a Job Not a Job?" Community, Work, & Family 8(4):359-378.
Lionikas, A., D.A. Blizard, G.S. Gerhard, D.J. Vandenbergh, J.T. Stout, G.P. Vogler, G.E. McClearn and L. Larsson (2005). "Genetic Determinants of Weight of Fast- and Slow-Twitch Skeletal Muscle in 500-day Old Mice of the C57BL/6J and DBA/2J Lineage." Physiological Genomics 21(2):184-192.
Mahabir, S., D.J. Baer, L.L. Johnson, J.F. Dorgan, W.S. Campbell, E.D. Brown, T.J. Hartman, B.A. Clevidence, D. Albanes, J.T. Judd and P.R. Taylor (2004). "The Effects of Moderate Alcohol Supplementation on Estrone Sulfate and DHEAS in Postmenopausal Women in a Controlled Feeding Study." Nutrition Journal 3(1):11.
Mahabir, S., D.J. Baer, L.L. Johnson, K. Frenkel, J.F. Dorgan, W. Cambell, T.J. Hartman, B.A. Clevidence, D. Albanes, J.T. Judd and P.R. Taylor (2005). "No Association between Alcohol Supplementation and Autoantibodies to DNA Damage in Postmenopausal Women in a Controlled Feeding Study." European Journal of Cancer Prevention 14(4):427-429.
Mallers, M.H., D.M. Almeida and S.D. Neupert (2005). "Women's Daily Physical Health Symptoms and Stressful Experiences across Adulthood." Psychology & Health 20(3):389-403.
Masharani, U., S. Shiboski, M.D. Eisner, P.P. Katz, S.L. Janson, D.A. Granger and P.D. Blanc (2005). "Impact of Exogenous Glucocorticoid Use on Salivary Cortisol Measurements among Adults with Asthma and Rhinitis." Psychoneuroendocrinology 30(8):744-752.
Matthews, S.A. and B. Gubhaju (2004). Contextual Influences on the Use of Antenatal Care in Nepal (DHS Geographic Studies 2). Calverton, MD: ORC Macro.
McDonnell, E., C. Probart, J.E. Weirich, T.J. Hartman and P. Birkenshaw (2004). "School Breakfast Programs: Perceptions and Barriers." Journal of Child Nutrition & Management 28(2):1-8.
McHale, S.M., J.Y. Kim, S.D. Whiteman and A.C. Crouter (2004). "Links between Sex-Typed Time Use in Middle Childhood and Gender Development in Early Adolescence." Developmental Psychology 40(5):868-881.
McLean, D.C., I. Spruill, G. Argyropoulos, G.P. Page, M.D. Shriver and W.T. Garvey (2005). "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Haplotypes Reveal Maternal Population Genetic Affinities of Sea Island Gullah-Speaking African Americans." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127(4):427-438.
Monahan, J., H.J. Steadman, P.C. Robbins, P.S. Appelbaum, S. Banks, T. Grisso, K. Heilbrun, E.P. Mulvey, L.H. Roth and E. Silver (2005). "An Actuarial Model of Violence Risk Assessment for Persons with Mental Disorders." Psychiatric Services 56(7):810-815.
Mroczek, D.K. and D.M. Almeida (2004). "The Effect of Daily Stress, Personality, and Age on Daily Negative Affect." Journal of Personality 72(2):355-378.
Muntaner, C., J.W. Lynch, M. Hillemeier, J.H. Lee, R. David, J. Benach and C. Borrell (2004). "Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries." In Navarro, V. and C. Muntaner, Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and Developments. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing.
O'Connor, R.J., L.T. Kozlowski, D.J. Vandenbergh, A.A. Strasser, M.D. Grant and G.P. Vogler (2005). "An Examination of Early Smoking Experiences and Smoking Status in a National Cross-Sectional Sample." Addiction 100(9):1352-1357.
Pong, S., L. Hao and E. Gardner (2005). "The Roles of Parenting Styles and Social Capital in the School Performance of Immigrant Asian and Hispanic Adolescents." Social Science Quarterly 86(4):928-950.
Probart, C., E. McDonnell, J.E. Weirich, T.J. Hartman, L. Bailey-Davis and V. Prabhakher (2005). "Competitive Foods Available in Pennsylvania Public High Schools." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 105(8):1243-1249.
Ruback, R.B., G.R. Ruth and J.N. Shaffer (2005). "Assessing the Impact of Statutory Change: A Statewide Multilevel Analysis of Restitution Orders in Pennsylvania." Crime and Delinquency 51(3):318-342.
Salari, K., S. Choudhry, H. Tang, M. Naqvi, D. Lind, P.C. Avila, N.E. Coyle, N. Ung, S. Nazario, J. Casal, A. Torres-Palacios, S. Clark, A. Phong, I. Gomez, H. Matallana, E.J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Shriver, P.Y. Kwok, D. Sheppard, W. Rodriguez-Cintron, N.J. Risch and E. Ziv (2005). "Genetic Admixture and Asthma-Related Phenotypes in Mexican American and Puerto Rican Asthmatics." Genetic Epidemiology 29(1):76-86.
Schaie, K.W., N.M. Krause and A. Booth (Eds.) (2004). Religious Influences on Health and Well-Being in the Elderly. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Scheuble, L.K. and D.R. Johnson (2005). "Married Women's Situational Use of Last Names: An Empirical Study." Sex Roles 53(1-2):143-151.
Schoen, R. and V. Canudas-Romo (2005). "Timing Effects on First Marriage: Twentieth-Century Experience in England and Wales and the USA." Population Studies 59(2):135-146.
Shanahan, M.J. and S.M. Hofer (2005). "Social Context in Gene-Environment Interactions: Retrospect and Prospect." Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 60(Special Issue 1):65-76.
Shirtcliff, E.A., D.A. Granger, A. Booth and D.R. Johnson (2005). "Low Salivary Cortisol Levels and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Youth." Development and Psychopathology 17(1):167-184.
Smith, E.A., J.D. Swisher, J.R. Vicary, L.J. Bechtel, D. Minner, K.L. Henry and R. Palmer (2004). "Evaluation of Life Skills Training and Infused-Life Skills Training in a Rural Setting: Outcomes at Two Years." Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education 48(1):51-70.
Steffensmeier, D., J. Schwartz, H. Zhong and J. Ackerman (2005). "An Assessment of Recent Trends in Girls' Violence Using Diverse Longitudinal Sources: Is the Gender Gap Closing?" Criminology 43(2):355-405.
Stuart, B.C., B.A. Briesacher, D.G. Shea, B. Cooper, F.S. Baysac and M.R. Limcangco (2005). "Riding the Rollercoaster: The Ups and Downs in Out-Of-Pocket Spending under the Standard Medicare Drug Benefit." Health Affairs 24(4):1022-1031.
Swisher, J.D., E.A. Smith, J.R. Vicary, L.J. Bechtel and A.M. Hopkins (2004). "A Cost-Effectiveness Comparison of Two Approaches to Life Skills Training." Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education 48(1):71-87.
Updegraff, K.A., H. Helms-Erikson, S.M. McHale, A.C. Crouter, S.M. Thayer and L.H. Sales (2004). "Who's the Boss? Patterns of Perceived Control in Adolescents' Friendships." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 33(5):403-420.
Vicary, J.R., K.L. Henry, L.J. Bechtel, J.D. Swisher, E.A. Smith, R. Wylie and A.M. Hopkins (2004). "Life Skills Training Effects for High and Low Risk Rural Junior High School Females." Journal of Primary Prevention 25(4):399-416.
Weber, B., L. Jensen, K. Miller, J.M. Mosley and M. Fisher (2005). "A Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect?" International Regional Science Review 28(4):381-414.
Whitfield, K.E. (2005). "Studying Biobehavioral Aspects of Health Disparities among Older Adult Minorities." Journal of Urban Health 82(2 Suppl 3):iii103-iii110.
Wickrama, K.S., S. Noh and C.M. Bryant (2005). "Racial Differences in Adolescent Distress: Differential Effects of the Family and Community for Blacks and Whites." Journal of Community Psychology 33(3):261-282.
Wray, L.A., C.S. Blaum and M.B. Ofstedal (2004). "Diabetes Diagnosis and Weight Loss in Middle-Aged Adults." Research on Aging 26(1):62-81.
Wray, L.A., M.B. Ofstedal, K.M. Langa and C.S. Blaum (2005). "The Effect of Diabetes on Disability in Middle-Aged and Older Adults." Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 60(9):1206-1211.
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