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Tonya Allen
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PRInformation Spring 2002 - Focus on International Research
Contents
- Note from the Director
- Faculty Focus
- Staff News
- Student News
- International Research
- Articles of Interest
- New External Research Funding at PRI
- Selected Publications
While recent issues of PRInformation have focused on the Population Research Institute's domestic research, a substantial number of PRI researchers devote their efforts to international topics. PRI's current and recently completed single- and multi-country research projects have investigated population problems in 24 countries on five continents.
Enhancing the international research by PRI faculty is the Graduate Program in Demography. The program consistently has a strong representation of students from outside the U.S. After completing their degrees, most international students apply their expertise to population problems in their home countries, most often developing nations in Africa, Asia, and South America. PRI benefits from graduates' continuing contact with the Institute, both informally, and formally as project collaborators.
Some of PRI's international projects focus on the basic demographic processes of fertility, mortality and migration. Others consider the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors in relation to population well-being. With the exception of student-only projects, all of this research involves host-country collaborators.
Researchers are studying a wide range of topics, including family planning and contraceptive use (Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, Dr. Gretchen Cornwell, Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody, Dr. Leif Jensen, Dr. Patricia Johnson, Dr. Diane McLaughlin, and Dr. David Shapiro); the interface of population and environment (Dr. David Abler, Dr. Jill Findeis, Dr. Leif Jensen, Dr. Stephen Matthews, and Dr. C. Shannon Stokes); and the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security in developing countries (Dr. C. Shannon Stokes). In addition, dissertation improvement grants funded by the Hewlett Foundation currently support three students whose studies focus on family planning/contraceptive use in settings outside the United States.
A detailed listing of many of these projects appears in our section devoted to International Research in this issue, with accompanying maps illustrating current research locations around the world as well as placement of recent graduates from the Graduate Program in Demography. For more information about these projects, please see our home page.
Mark D. Hayward
Director
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology and demography, was elected Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations in December, 2001.
Dr. Linda Burton, professor of human development and family studies and sociology, was appointed as co-chair with Christine Bachrach of the Working Group on Social Environment for the National Children's Study; and was elected to Council for the American Sociological Association.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, assistant professor of anthropology and demography, received the 2002 Roy C. Buck Award, which recognizes the best article accepted or published by a refereed scholarly journal in the social sciences within the previous year.
Dr. Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and industrial relations, was recently appointed Founding Board Member, Berger Institute for Work, Family & Children, Claremont McKenna College; and Elected Board Member, College and University Work/Family Association.
Dr. Mark Hayward, professor of sociology and demography, was elected to the Council of the Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research. He was also appointed to the Board of Overseers of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan.
Dr. Leif Jensen, professor of rural sociology and demography, won the 2001 Award for Excellence in Instruction from the Rural Sociological Society at their August 2001 annual meetings.
Dr. Sean Reardon, assistant professor of educational theory and policy and sociology, was recently named a William T. Grant Foundation faculty scholar. This award is given each year to five young scholars conducting research relating to adolescence. Dr. Reardon will receive funding over five years in support of his study "Adolescence to Adulthood in Chicago Neighborhoods."
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography, received the annual President's Award for Engagement with Students at Penn State University.
Dr. Eric Silver, assistant professor of crime, law, and justice, was chosen as the 2002 Saleem Shah Award winner by the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS -- Division 41 of the American Psychological Association) in conjunction with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. The award, which is for early career excellence, was presented at the May meeting of the AP-LS in Austin, Texas.
Dr. Eric Silver, assistant professor of crime, law, and justice, was co-author of the 2002 American Psychiatric Association Guttmacher award winning book Monahan, J., Steadman, H. J., Silver, E., Appelbaum, P. S., et al. (2001). Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence. Oxford University Press.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Paul R. Amato, professor of sociology and demography, presented "Long-Term Consequences of Parents' Marital Discord and Divorce for Children's Well-Being in Adulthood" at the Conference on Childhood Adversities and Mental Health, University of Mainz, Germany, October 19, 2001; and "Meta-Analysis and Adverse Childhood Experiences: Pitfalls, Limitations, and Strengths" at the Childhood Adversities and Mental Health Expert Symposium, Kloster Eberbach, Germany, October 21, 2001.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, assistant professor of anthropology and demography, presented "Social Responses to Migration among Rural Oaxacans: Outcomes in Sending and Receiving Communities" to the University of Kentucky program in Latin American Studies, November 2, 2001.
Dr. Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and industrial relations, presented the following invited papers: "Reporting on Low-Income Working Families in the Western States," at the University of Southern California, sponsored by the Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families, University of Maryland, October 20, 2001; "The Future of Faculty Commitments to Families and Related Policy Options," Annual Conference of the College and University Work/Family Association, February 6, 2002; and "Work and Family in a Global Context," 2002 Melbourne Institute Economic and Social Outlook Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, April 4, 2002.
Dr. Glenn Firebaugh, department head and professor of sociology and demography, presented his paper "The Myth of Growing Global Income Inequality" at an international stratification conference at Oxford University, April 10, 2002.
Dr. Constance Flanagan, associate professor of agricultural and extension education, and Dr. Leslie Gallay, research assistant, presented "Nurturing Democratic Character in Teens: The Potential of IT" at the October, 2001 meeting Toward Digital Inclusion for Underserved Youth: A Transatlantic Roundtable, Washington, DC. Dr. Flanagan also presented "Trust and Trustworthiness in the Consolidation of Adolescent Identity" at the invitational conference Beyond the Self: Perspectives on Transcendence and Identity Development, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA in February, 2002; and "Adolescent Solidarity and Trust: Relationships to Civic Engagement and Activism" at the Nineteenth Annual Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, Processes of Community Change and Social Action, Claremont McKenna College, CA, in March, 2002.
Dr. E. Michael Foster, associate professor of health policy and administration, delivered the following invited presentations: "The Full Costs of the System of Care: Cost-Shifting Across Child-Serving Sectors" was presented at the Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, in February, 2002, and at the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, in October, 2001; "Grappling with Selection Problems: Sibling Models, Instrumental Variables, and Other Approaches (Including Propensity Scores)" was presented at the Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh, in February, 2002; "Economic Analysis of Prevention Programs: Facing the Challenges" was presented at the Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, in October, 2001.
Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of demography and sociology (adjunct geography), and director of the GIA Core, gave presentations on GIS and spatial statistical modeling at both the University of Connecticut and Ohio State University in March, 2002.
Dr. Mark Hayward, professor of sociology and demography, made a presentation to the National Board of 4H on the changing social landscape of America's children and youth. He gave an invited presentation at the International Meeting on Age Structure Transition and Policy Dynamics, organized by the Institute of Economics of Academia Sinica and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Scientific Committee on Age Structure and Public Policy, December 6-8, 2001, Taipei, Republic of China. Dr. Hayward recently gave a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center on the consequences of childhood disadvantages for race disparities in adult men's mortality.
Dr. Robert Schoen, Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, was Invited Discussant at the US Census Bureau Conference "The Direction of Fertility in the United States," October 2-3, 2001, Alexandria VA; and Invited Presenter at the International Meeting on Age Structure Transition and Policy Dynamics, organized by the Institute of Economics of Academia Sinica and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Scientific Committee on Age Structure and Public Policy, December 6-8, 2001, Taipei, Republic of China.
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography, gave an invited presentation on "Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dr. Eric Silver, assistant professor of crime, law, and justice, presented an invited address on "Violence and Mental Disorder: A Focus on Contexts Large and Small" to the American Psychology-Law Society, Austin, TX.
Leaves of Absence
Dr. R. Barry Ruback, professor of crime, law, and justice and sociology, to investigate human reactions to social and environmental stressors in three capital cities in South Asia at Allahabad University.
Dr. C. Shannon Stokes, professor of rural sociology, to conduct collaborative research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security at the Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome.
Dr. James W. Wood, professor of anthropology and demography, to complete a book-length manuscript on the epidemiology and demography of the Black Death (1347-1350); to develop new statistical methods for use with ancient DNA sequences of syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy and other pathogens recovered from archaeological bone samples; and to initiate a major new project on the demographic and ecological history of the Orkney Islands at Odense University.
New Staff
Kiet Bang, Library Assistant
Adam Fogelsanger, PC Support Specialist
William Harnish, Writer/Editor
Donald Miller, Programmer
Janet Rush, Web/Database Programmer
Liu Shi, Programmer
Michelle Zeiders, GIS Analyst
Other News
Jennifer Darragh, data archivist, and Tara Murray, Information Core director, attended the Association of Public Data Users conference in Arlington, VA in October, 2001.
Jim Detwiler, GIA consultant, recently became an ESRI-authorized instructor for the course ArcGIS I. He also attended the ESRI workshop on Programming in ArcObjects; and recently finished development of an ArcView 8.1 programming course for Penn State's World Campus Certificate Program in GIS.
Stephen Graham, GIA analyst/programmer, recently completed three ESRI training courses (ArcGIS I and II and ArcIMS)
Karen Hayslett-McCall, GIA consultant, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of criminology, sociology and political economy at University of Texas-Dallas. Her work on the integration of geospatial data, GIS and spatial statistical methods in crime research won the student paper competition at the Crime Mapping Research Conference held in Dallas, TX in December, 2001.
Michelle Zeiders, GIA analyst, recently completed two ESRI training courses (ArcGIS I and II).
GIA research assistants Jiaqiang Chen, Karen Hayslett-McCall, Flora Nankhuni, and Jason Smith successfully completed the two-day ESRI training course on ArcGIS I.
New Students in the Graduate Program in Demography
Jeffrey P. Dew, Human Development and Family Studies
Hui Pong Liew, Sociology
Mindy Scott, Sociology
Sundar S. Shrestha, Agricultural, Environment and Regional Economics
Jason Smith, Sociology
Heng Zhao, Education Theory and Policy
Recent Graduates
The following Demography students received their Ph.D. degrees in December, 2001:
Joseph Kodamanchaly, Rural Sociology and Demography
Florence Nyangara-Marwnga, Rural Sociology and Demography
Ismael Ortega-Sanchez, Agricultural Economics and Demography
Winners of Hewlett Student Developing Country Dissertation Improvement Grants
Cristina Bradatan, "Structural Factors and Fertility Policies in Romania."
Flora Nankhuni, "Environmental Degradation, Women's and Children's Work Burden, and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off in Demand for Children in Malawi."
Michele Steinmetz, "Explaining the Relationship between Population Policy and Family Planning Programs: Supplementing Kenyan Service Provision Assessment Data."
Winners of Penn State's Graduate School Annual Poster Session Exhibition in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division
First Place: Michael Aitkenhead and co-author Corey Sparks, "Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics in Modern and Pre-industrial Societies."
Second Place: Denise Wallin, "Why Stay Married? Rewards, Barriers and Marital Stability."
FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AT PRI
As mentioned in the Note from the Director, international research holds an important place at PRI, with more than 20 projects currently ongoing or recently completed in South and Central America (Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Peru), Africa (Congo, The Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Togo), Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam), Europe (Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Romania), and the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand). A few of these projects are highlighted below. Maps of international projects and international placements of recent dual-degree graduates are also available.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, assistant professor of anthropology and demography, recently received a Hewlett Faculty Developing Country Research Initiation Grant for his project entitled "Fertility, Family and Contraception among Oaxacan Women in Mexico and the United States: An Interdisciplinary, Bi-National Study" (2002). Dr. Cohen is also conducting an ongoing survey-based study of migration outcomes for a dozen rural communities surrounding Oaxaca City, Mexico, with Alicia Sylvia Gijón-Cruz, Universidad Autonoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, and Rafael G. Reyes-Morales, Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca. Key issues explored include migration history, effect of remittances on social welfare of communities, community organization and household models of migration.
Dr. Stephen Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of demography and sociology (adjunct geography), and director of the GIA Core, has been involved in a number of international projects, including "Reciprocal Relations between Population and Environment," focusing on the Nepalese Himalayas; and a five-year collaboration with the UN-Statistics and Population Division on various projects, including development of a workbook/manual for PopMap software.
Dr. Suet-ling Pong, associate professor of education, is working with Jaap Dronkers of the European University Institute and Gillian Hampden-Thompson (education student at Penn State) on a project entitled "International Comparison of the Effects of Single-Parent Family on Math and Science Achievement," focusing on data from the United States, Canada, Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand from the 1995 Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS).
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography, is currently in the final stages of a long-term project focusing on women's education, employment, and fertility in Kinshasa; fertility transition in urban and rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa and of Togo, and fertility, mortality, and migration in Kinshasa.
Many graduates of PRI's Dual-Degree Program in Demography continue to collaborate with PRI researchers on various projects. Dr. Pimonpan Isarbhakdi, Mahidol University, Thailand, is currently working with Dr. Leif Jensen, professor of rural sociology and demography, and Dr. Gretchen Cornwell, research associate and assistant professor of rural sociology and demography, on a project entitled "The Demographic Implications of Global Manufacturing." Dr. Marina Y. Nicolaeva, assistant professor at Universidad Privada Boliviana and recent PRI alumna, is collaborating with Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin, assistant professor of rural sociology and demography, on a recently initiated project which examines factors affecting rural Bolivian women's reproductive health, focusing particularly on the interaction of individual and household characteristics and community or contextual factors.
Dr. Jill Findeis, professor of agricultural, environmental and regional economics and demography, has collaborated with a number of current and past PRI graduate students on projects focusing on international issues; the latest of these are "The Impacts of Out-Migration on Agricultural Households in Mexico," with Ismael Ortega-Sanchez; and "Agricultural Household Decision-making in Malawi," with Hema Swaminathan (Ph.D. candidate in agricultural economics) and Flora Nankhuni (graduate student in agricultural economics and demography).
With the support of Penn State's Children, Youth and Families Consortium and International Programs, Penn State researchers have established the Southern African Penn State Interest Consortium (SAPSIC), a network of faculty intended to promote research and intervention collaborations in Southern Africa, . Members of this network include PRI associates Dr. David Baker, director, Institute for Policy and Research Evaluation, and professor of education and sociology; Dr. Gary King, associate professor of biobehavioral health; and Dr. Constance Flanagan, associate professor of agricultural and extension education
2002 Family Issues Symposium
The 2002 National Symposium on Family Issues, entitled "Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and their Children," will be held October 10-11, 2002. Please visit the newly expanded web site for the National Symposium on Family Issues.
Penn State Demography Training Program Selected as Model
Christine Bachrach, Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NIH, has selected the Penn State Demography Training Program as the "exemplary interdisciplinary training program" from her branch, suggesting it as a model for other NIH interdisciplinary training grants.
NEW EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING AT PRI
The Community Context of Rural and Urban Child Neglect
Dr. David R. Johnson, professor of sociology and human development and family studies and director, Survey Research Center, received funding from NICHD for five years in support of this project, with co-investigators at University of Nebraska Brian Wilcox, Jeff Chambers, and Michelle Graef.
Expanding a Web-Accessible Women's Health Data Archive
Dr. Phyllis K. Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, with Dr. Susannah Barsom, NIA Postdoctoral Trainee, received a three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, to develop a web-accessible data archive for the Tremin Trust Research Program on Women's Health.
Project on Police-Citizen Contacts Collection and Analysis of Police-Citizen Contact Data for the Pennsylvania State Police
Dr. Robin Shepard Engel, assistant professor of crime, law and justice, received funding from the Pennsylvania State Police for 18 months to provide reliable and valid police-citizen contact data analyzed against the appropriate base rates to enable specific policy recommendations.
Hewlett Faculty Developing Country Research Initiation Grants
Four PRI associates were awarded research initiation funding in December, 2001 from the Hewlett Grant to Penn State's Population Research Institute: Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, assistant professor of anthropology and demography, and collaborators from Rice University and Universidad Iberoamericana for their project entitled "Fertility, Family and Contraception among Oaxacan Women in Mexico and the United States;" Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin, assistant professor of rural sociology and demography, and former dual-degree Ph.D. student Marina Nicolaeva, Universidad Privida Boliviana, for their project "Family Planning and Fertility in Bolivia: Contraceptive Use, Women's Status, and the Local Development Context;" Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics, women's studies and demography and collaborators from Tulane University and the Demography Department, University of Kinshasa, Congo, for "Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences of Economic Crisis: Evidence from Kinshasa;" and Dr. Leif Jensen, professor of rural sociology and demography, and former dual-degree Ph.D. student Pimonpan Isarabhakdi, Mahidol University, Thailand, for their project entitled "The Demographic Implications of Global Manufacturing."
International Population Training and Research
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded a three-year grant to the Penn State Population Research Institute and the Graduate Program in Demography to support international population training and research. With this award for the 2002-2005 period, the foundation will have supported the Penn State demography program continuously for 23 years.
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