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PRInformation Fall 1998 - Focus on Children and Families
Contents
- Note from the Director
- Faculty Focus
- Staff News
- Student News
- Articles of Interest
- New External Research Funding at PRI
- Selected Publications
The Pennsylvania State University has embarked on a major new funding initiative that supports innovative research, teaching, and outreach on child and family well-being. The newly-formed Children, Youth, and Family Consortium (CYFC) will support basic and applied research that seeks to understand risk and protective factors (including intervention efforts) associated with the healthy functioning and general well-being of children, youth, and families. Among its many goals, the CYFC will "seed" interdisciplinary research projects, sponsor conferences and colloquia, and promote new training or outreach efforts. To strengthen its family research faculty at Penn State, the CYFC will also, over the next several years, cost-share numerous new faculty appointments in specific priority areas that crosscut disciplinary boundaries.
For the Population Research Institute (PRI), the CYFC is a welcome new University initiative. It comes at a time when rapid social change in our most basic institutions -- government, economy, family, and education -- threatens the psychosocial development and economic well-being of children today, while preventing untold numbers from entering productive adult roles in the future. Clearly, the goals of CYFC buttress the interdisciplinary family research and training agenda of several population and family scholars currently associated with PRI. Indeed, the various faculty working groups of the CYFC have identified several priority "themes" that are especially germane to the sub-field of family demography. These include, but are not limited to, the following: "intimate family relationships, family stability, and child development," "economic disadvantage, family structure, and child/youth risk," "the work-family interface," "impact of urbanization and changing policies on child, family, and youth well-being in rural areas," "intergenerational family relations and the future of financial and social support," "the causes and consequences of family dissolution," "the impact of welfare reform in America," and "families in a multicultural and multiracial society." The CYFC also will support integrative biosocial research on child development, which potentially could augment current PRI faculty strength in biodemography and ongoing research in behavioral genetics, behavioral endocrinology, and health.
The University's long-term commitment of significant new resources to the social sciences -- especially family social science -- bodes well for the continuing viability of family-related demographic research in the Population Research Institute. It also has the potential to foster new collaborative linkages between PRI's population research and training programs and other Penn State social and behavioral science departments (e.g., psychology, geography, biobehavioral health) concerned with child and family functioning.
For more information about the mission and goals of the new CYFC, see its web site. I think you will agree that Penn State University is entering an exciting new phase in its maturation as a leading institution for research, training, and outreach on children, youth, and families.
Daniel T. Lichter
Director
King Studies Intergenerational Relationships
Dr. Valarie King, assistant professor of sociology and human development, joined Penn State and the Population Research Institute in 1996 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. King received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Her research focuses on intergenerational relationships and processes across the life course. One major line of investigation concerns fathers' relationships with their children. She has published papers on the consequences of nonresident father involvement for child well-being, and more recently has explored the diversity of nonresident parenting arrangements and their consequences for family relationships and child well-being in a forthcoming article in the Journal of Marriage and the Family.
A second line of research centers on relationships between grandparents and grandchildren. With increasing longevity and good health among the elderly, most children will grow up surrounded by contact with active grandparents. However, little is known about what motivates grandparents to become involved in their grandchildren's lives or what consequences such involvement has for the well-being of family members. Dr. King has been exploring these issues in collaboration with Dr. Glen H. Elder, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in a series of published papers appearing most recently in Research on Aging and Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Dr. King currently holds a Brookdale Foundation National Fellowship that supports her research on grandparenting, and she has recently been invited to serve as associate editor for the Journal of Family Issues.
New Faculty Associates
Dr. Clancy Blair (Ph.D., 1996, Developmental Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham), assistant professor of human development and family studies. Research interests: design and evaluation of preventive interventions; developmental relation between social competence and cognition in early childhood; application of epidemiological methods to the study of child development.
Dr. Karen Carver, who earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1995, joins PRI as assistant professor of sociology after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research interests include investigations of the intergenerational transmission of religious attitudes (controlling for genetic transmission); the effect of hormonal contraceptive use on the risk of divorce in the United States; and complex survey design effects in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Dr. Gary King (Ph.D. 1987, Boston University), associate professor of biobehavioral health. Research interests: current research using secondary data analysis of national data bases; American smoking behavior; comparative international tobacco consumption (France and West Africa); child maltreatment and reporting practices. Dr. King is Co-Principal Investigator on "MATCH (Mobilize Against Tobacco for Children's Health)," a four-year project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dr. Michael S. Rendall, associate professor of sociology, comes to PRI from Cornell University's Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Dr. Rendall earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 1993, and holds an A.M. in Economics, also from Brown. His research interests include single motherhood and absent fatherhood; fertility and socioeconomic reproduction; poverty and the family; and family-demographic simulation models. His current work focuses on his role as Principal Investigator on a project entitled "Comparing Men's and Women's Parental Life Courses," a three-year NICHD-funded grant. His other ongoing work includes estimating the effects of inheritances on future black-white wealth disparities, and on demographic models of inter-generational mobility.
Dr. Pamela Farley Short, professor of health policy and administration and director of Penn State's Center for Health Policy Research. Research interests: consumer choice of health insurance plans; Medicaid managed care; dynamics of health insurance coverage; public policies governing the organization and financing of health insurance and health care. Among her current research projects is the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study, funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
Dr. Edward A. Smith (DPH, 1983, Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), associate professor of human development and family studies. Research interests: adolescent development with a focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to prevent problem behaviors. Dr. Smith is currently Principal Investigator on a five-year project entitled "Evaluation of Pennsylvania's Abstinence Education and Related Services Initiative," funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (via the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit).
Invited Speakers
Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the graduate program in demography, with Quynh-Giang Tran and Aphichat Chamratrithirong, presented "Migration and Subjective Well-Being: Life Satisfaction Consequences of Migration" at the XIVth World Congress of Sociology, July 27, 1998, in Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the graduate program in demography, presented "Pennsylvania in 2000 and Beyond" as plenary paper at the Pennsylvania State Data Center Annual Conference, September 17, 1998, in Harrisburg. Dr. De Jong also recently presented a seminar entitled "Internal Migration and Occupational Mobility in Thailand" at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, professor of sociology, presented a mini-course on statistical analysis of repeated surveys in Bethesda, Maryland, as part of the University of Michigan-University of Maryland joint program in survey methods.
Dr. Stephen Matthews, assistant professor of geography and Geographic Information Analysis Core director, delivered a presentation and participated in a discussion on "The Use of GIS and Related Technologies in Demographic Research" June 5, 1998 at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University.
Dr. Martina Morris, professor of sociology and statistics, presented "Sexual Networks and HIV" as plenary speaker at the Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS, May, 1998, in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Morris was also an invited panelist on "The Future of Demography" at the meetings of the Population Association of America, April, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Kathleen O'Connor, PRI research associate, presented "The Biology and Epidemiology of Pregnancy-Related Sickness" in April, 1998 at the University of Massachusetts- Boston.
Dr. R. Salvador Oropesa, associate professor of sociology, presented "Ethnicity, Immigration, and the 'Tie that Binds'" at a conference on "The Ties that Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation" held at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics and women's studies, presented a paper entitled "Appartenance ethnique, éducation et fécondité à Kinshasa, Congo" to the Séminaire Démodynamiques at the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques in October, 1997 in Paris, France. He presented the same paper in April, 1998 at the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and presented an English version of the paper at the African Population Policy Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya in January, 1998. In addition, Dr. Shapiro presented a paper on "Gender, Poverty, and School Enrollment in Kinshasa, Congo" at the Public Seminar of the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia in December, 1997, and at the African Population Policy Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya in February, 1998.
Dr. Elizabeth Susman, Shibley Professor of Biobehavorial Health and professor of human development and nursing, presented "Hormones and Behavior at Puberty: Observational and Clinical Trials Findings" at the New Research on the Biology of Puberty and Adolescent Development Workshop, March 23-24, 1998, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Dr. Susman also presented "Endocrine Mechanisms and Externalizing Behavior" to the National Institute of Mental Health "Committee On Taking Stock of Externalizing Behavior," June 23-24, 1998, in Washington, D.C.
Promotions
To professor:
Dr. Nancy S. Landale (sociology)
Dr. W. Martina Morris (sociology and statistics)
Dr. David Shapiro (economics and women's studies)
To associate professor
Dr. Suet-ling Pong (education)
Leave
Dr. Michael J. Shanahan, assistant professor of human development and family studies, will be on leave for the 1998-1999 academic year. His on-leave activities will include a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and research on the transition to adulthood and the effects of poverty across the early life course.
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the graduate program in demography, was elected to the Council of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, 1998-2001.
Dr. Valarie King, assistant professor of sociology and human development, has been invited to serve as associate editor of the Journal of Family Issues.
Dr. Bruce G. Lindsay, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association, one of fifty-eight people to receive this honor in 1998. He was recognized for his research in statistical theory for mixture models, estimating equations and likelihood methods; and for service to the profession.
Dr. Phyllis K. Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, has been made director of the Tremin Trust research program on women's health. Dr. Mansfield has also been re-elected to the board of directors of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.
Dr. W. Martina Morris, professor of sociology and statistics, has been elected to the Methodology Section Board, American Sociological Association Editorial Board, Sociological Methodology.
Dr. R. Salvador Oropesa, associate professor of sociology, has been elected to the editorial board of the American Sociological Review.
Elizabeth Susman, Shibley Professor of Biobehavorial Health and professor of human development and nursing, was named a member of the Steering Committee for Health Futures of Youth, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Washington, D.C.; and co-chaired a workshop at the Health Futures II National Conference, "Promoting Healthy Physical Development in Adolescents," September 14-16, in Annapolis, Maryland.
Administrative Core Promotions
Cassie Johnstonbaugh, to Staff Assistant VI
Diane Mattern, to Administrative Assistant II
Kris McNeel, to Staff Assistant VI
Sherry Yocum, to Coordinator, Research & Administrative Services
Kim Zimmerman, to Proposal & Grant Assistant
New Staff
Two new statistics consultants join the Statistics Core this fall. Michele Shaffer, a doctoral student in statistics, received her B.S. in Mathematics with highest distinction from Penn State University. Sami Huovilainen, graduate student in statistics, received his B.A. in economics and statistics from the University of Joensuu in Finland, and his M.A. in economics from Penn State.
Dave Barro joined the Computer Core in May as a research analyst/programmer.
Other Staff News
Tonya Allen, Information Core director, has been appointed to the Board of Directors, APLIC-I (Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers- International).
Jeanne Spicer, manager of programming services, presented her paper "Delivering Geographic Information: Just Click My Map Object" at the NorthEast SAS User Group Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, held October 4-6, 1998. Dave Barro, Don Gensimore and Cindy Mitchell also attended the conference.
Second Annual Workshop on Family Planning
The second annual PRI Family Planning Workshop, entitled "Family Planning Post-Cairo: What Demographers Need to Know," was held in May. Speakers included Lori Ashford (Senior Policy Analyst, Population Reference Bureau), Leunita Muruli (Lecturer, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington), and Jay Sarangi (Senior Civil Servant, Government of India, and Research Fellow, Population Research Institute). In addition, students in the Dual-Title Degree Program in Demography presented national case studies of China and Mexico. The workshop concluded with a field trip to a local rural family planning clinic. The workshop is held each year with the goal of furthering participants' knowledge of the complexity and diversity of contemporary family planning programs.
Students Present Research at ASA Meetings
Meejung Chin (with Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody, assistant professor of human development and family studies), "Single Parent Families and Family Assistance" (poster)
Rosario Garcia Calderon and Rocio Flores (with Dr. David Post, associate professor of comparative and international education), "Access to Secondary School in Mexico: The Role of Policy, Gender, and the Family"
Deborah Graefe, "Education, Employment, and Fertility among Kinshasa's Least Educated Women: The Role of Partner's Education"
Michelle Inkley, "Mother's Fertility History and Child School Dropout in Paraguay: A Life Course Perspective"
Patricia Munoz (with Dr. Leif Jensen, associate professor of rural sociology), "Natural-Resource Dependence: Implications for Children's Schooling and Work in Chile"
Romney Norwood, "Female Criminality: When, Where, and Why?"
Romney Norwood (with Dr. Debra Blackwell, NIA Postdoctoral Trainee), "Internal Migration among the Poor Population in the U.S."
Tasha Snyder (with Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody, assistant professor of human development and family studies), "Union Formation after Nonmarital Childbearing: Historical Trends" (poster)
Tasha Snyder and Frank Avenilla, "Family and Community Connections: Social Capital Availability and the Development of Human Capital among Adolescent Single Mother Families" (poster)
Recent Appointments
Dr. Debra Blackwell, NIA Postdoctoral Trainee, begins her appointment as Statistician-Demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey Division, in November, 1998.
New Students in the Graduate Program in Demography
Darwin Cruz-Carabello, B.A., University of Puerto Rico, sociology and demography
Lori Fosdick, B.A., Hunter College, sociology and demography
Tesfayi Gebreselassie, M.A., University of Kent (UK), economics and demography
Brian Goesling, B.S., Western Washington University, sociology and demography
Lorena Gonzales-Lopez, B.A., Southwestern University, sociology and demography
Tera Rose Hurt, B.S., Indiana University, human development and family studies and demography
Tanya Kenkre, M.P.H., George Washington University, sociology and demography
Atsuko Nonoyama, M.A., Arizona State University, rural sociology and demography
Michele Steinmetz, M.A., Long Island University, sociology and demography
Tanja St. Pierre, B.A., Villanova University, sociology and demography
Incoming Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Roland Daeumer, NIA postdoctoral trainee, earned his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. His research interests include social inequality, quantitative methods, political sociology, and the sociology of aging. He is currently engaged in a research project on income and wealth inequality of the elderly population, applying relative distribution methods.
Dr. James Hagen, who received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1996, comes to PRI as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow following a Taft postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on kinship and marriage, centering on the Maneo, a small-scale society in Eastern Indonesia.
Dr. William Kandel, Mellon postdoctoral fellow, recently received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. His dissertation examined the impact of Mexican migration to the U.S. on Mexican children growing up in Mexico, focusing on socioeconomic mobility, particularly education levels. Dr. Kandel's other research interests include children's labor force participation and the mobility trajectories of migrants.
Tremin Trust Research Program on Women's Health
Dr. Phyllis Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, is the new director of The Tremin Trust Research Program on Women's Health. The Trust, established in 1934 at the University of Minnesota under the direction of Alan Treloar, a physician, enrolled university women in a long-term study of menstrual and reproductive health. Two cohorts, one in the 1930s and one in the 1960s, have participated in this study, keeping menstrual calendars indicating prospectively the starting and ending dates of their menstrual periods. The participants also complete annual health surveys which gather information on reproductive and other medical events and issues (births, abortions, miscarriages, birth control utilization, surgery, menopause, general state of health) as well as life events (marriage, divorce and stressful episodes). In 1984, the Trust moved to the University of Utah under Dr. Ann Voda's direction; it moved to Penn State in the summer of 1998. The Tremin Trust is unique in that it is possibly the largest longitudinal study focusing on women's reproductive health. Dr. Mansfield, with Dr. Voda, used Trust data in a second ongoing project, the Midlife Women's Health Study, focusing on the menopausal transition. Several hundred women aged 35-55 at the start of the study keep health and menstrual records that help to document normal menopausal experiences. Dr. Mansfield, along with Dr. James Wood, Dr. Kathleen O'Connor and Dr. Darryl Holman (anthropology), are engaged in a five year NIH study entitled Biodemographic Models of Reproductive Aging. This study analyzes first morning urine samples from approximately one hundred fifty women ages 35 to 60 for six months of each year for the metabolic traces of estrogen, progesterone, luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone. The data obtained from this analysis will enable researchers to model fluctuations in levels of these hormones and to relate these fluctuations to prior reproductive/menstrual / health history and ongoing perimenopausal experiences.
National Family Symposium
The Fall 1998 Family Symposium, Does it Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families, was held November 5-6 at the Nittany Lion Inn, Penn State. Organized by Dr. Alan Booth, professor of sociology and human development, and Dr. Ann C. Crouter, professor of human development and family studies, the symposium focused on mechanisms that may link characteristics of communities, such as community norms or economic opportunities, to the functioning of resident families and individuals. Lead speakers included Robert Sampson (University of Chicago), Margaret Spencer (University of Pennsylvania), Greg Duncan (Northwestern University), and James Connell (Institute for Research and Reform in Education). Proceedings of the conference will be published in Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter (1999). Does It Take A Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Ford Foundation Supports Collaborative Research and Training Initiative between PRI and Kathmandu University
Dr. William Axinn (University of Michigan), Dr. Stephen Matthews, assistant professor of geography and Geographic Information Analysis Core director, Dr. Leif Jensen, associate professor of rural sociology, Dr. David Abler, associate professor of agricultural economics, and Dr. Shannon Stokes, professor of rural sociology, have received $60,000 from the Ford Foundation for the planning and establishment of an interdisciplinary center focusing on human and natural resources at Kathmandu University, Nepal. The new center will be based on an integrated program of research and training targeting issues facing the people of Nepal and the local communities surrounding Kathmandu University, with a special emphasis on the study, management and use of water resources and rural-urban population dynamics. Also included in the proposal are Penn State Demography program graduate students Kishor Gajurel (Rural Sociology) and Netra Chhetri (Geography); former graduate student Dirgha Ghimire (Sociology), now at University of Michigan; and PRI colleagues at the Population and Ecology Research Laboratory, Chitwan, Nepal. As an initial step in establishing the center, Dr. Matthews spent part of the summer in Nepal working with Nepalese colleagues to plan collaborative activities over the next three years, develop a needs assessment survey, and discuss strategies to gather information identifying the highest priority areas for research and training in Nepal.
GIA Workshop
The Fifth Annual Demography Graduate Student Methodology Workshop, held in May, 1998, focused on Geographic Information Analysis. This annual workshop is organized by graduate students in PRI's Demography program and focuses on a different methodological issue each year. This year's workshop was coordinated by Bridget Gorman (sociology) and Tasha Snyder (human development and family studies) and was sponsored by PRI's Geographical Information Analysis and Statistical Cores. The approximately one hundred attendees had the opportunity to hear presentations on "The Spatial Distribution of Income Inequality in the United States," by Dr. Diane McLaughlin (rural sociology) and Dr. Mark Handcock (statistics); "Remote Sensing, GIS, and Sample Surveys: An Example from the Brazilian Amazon," by Dr. Stephen McCracken (Indiana University); "Spatial Econometric Analysis of Amazon Deforestation," by Dr. Luc Anselin (University of Texas at Dallas); and "Identifying Areas of High Infant Mortality in U.S. Cities and Evaluating the Success of Interventions to Reduce IMR in High Rate Areas," by Dr. Gerard Rushton (University of Iowa). Immediately following the workshop, Dr. Anselin led a three-day course focusing on SpaceStat (his spatial analysis program) and its interface to Arcview. This hands-on course provided an opportunity for twenty-five researchers from across Penn State to become familiar with SpaceStat and its functionality. Spacestat is capable of a variety of spatial clustering, autocorrelation and spatial econometric models, and with the interface to Arcview makes some complex routines more easily available. This represented a tremendous opportunity to learn about spatial analysis from one of the key researchers in the field. For more information on SpaceStat see http://www.bruton.utdallas.edu or http://www.rri.wvu.edu/spacestat.htm.
NEW EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING AT PRI
Intercountry Income Inequality: New Analytic Directions
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, professor of sociology, has received funding from the National Science Foundation to extend previous research on the topic of income inequality between nations. This project will expand analysis to include a social welfare component, utilizing a family of inequality indexes proposed by Atkinson to compare trends in intercountry inequality based on different assumptions about the relative welfare impact of income transfers.
The Peer Group Revisited: A Network Approach for Understanding Delinquency
Dana Haynie, graduate student in sociology, with mentor Dr. Darrell Steffensmeier, professor of sociology and crime, law, and justice, has received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award to study peer group influences on delinquency. The project will use The Adolescent Health Survey (ADHealth), which provides detailed demographic and social network information on adolescents of high school age.
Substance Abuse and Welfare Reform
Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody, assistant professor of human development and family studies (with Dr. Sheldon Danziger at the University of Michigan), has received funding for three years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the relationship between substance abuse and workforce readiness among welfare mothers. The researchers will analyze data from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse, the University of Michigan's Women's Employment Survey, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Coming of Age in America: A Cohort Analysis of Underemployment
Dr. Leif Jensen, associate professor of rural sociology, and Dr. Jill Findeis, associate professor of agricultural economics, have received funding from the U.S. Dept of Agriculture as part of the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants program. Their project will use the 1968-1998 March CPS files to describe and explain inter-cohort differences in various categories of underemployment (e.g., part-time unemployment, low wages, etc.) among young adults in the United States.
Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market
Dr. Martina Morris, professor of sociology and statistics, Dr. Mark Handcock, associate professor of statistics, and Dr. Annette Bernhard (Columbia University) have received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation for an 18-month project that addresses the question of rising wage inequality and changing career mobility patterns, particularly among younger-aged cohorts of workers in the National Longitudinal Surveys.
Sexual Networks and HIV Supplemental Award
Dr. Martina Morris, professor of sociology and statistics, has received a supplemental award to her NICHD grant "Sexual Networks and HIV." This new award provides funding for two postdoctoral fellowships to aid her in evaluating epidemiological in formation loss associated with collecting data on local networks and to assist in developing demographic models of the long-term consequences of the clustering of HIV-mortality on household structure.
The Impact of Class Size on Math and Science Achievement
Dr. Suet-ling Pong, associate professor of education, has received funding from the American Educational Research Association for a two-year project which will use the Third International Math and Science Study to evaluate the effect of classroom size on academic achievement among middle-school and secondary-school students in ten countries.
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Booth, A. and A. Mazur (1998). "Old Issues and New Perspectives in Testosterone Research." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21:386-397.
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Mansfield, P., P. Koch, and A. Voda (1998). "Qualities Midlife Women Desire in Their Sexual Relationships and Their Changing Sexual Response." Psychology of Women Quarterly 22:285-303.
Markatou, M. and B.G. Lindsay (1998). "Weighted Likelihood Equations with Bootstrap Root Search." Journal of the American Statistical Association 93(442):740-750.
Mazur, A. and A. Booth (1998). "Testosterone and Dominance in Men." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21:353-363.
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