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PRInformation
Spring 2004
Selected Publications
Amato, P.R. (2003). "Reconciling Divergent Perspectives: Judith Wallerstein, Quantitative Family Research, and Children of Divorce." Family Relations 52(4):332-339.
Amato, P.R. (2004). "Divorce in Social and Historical Context: Changing Social Scientific Views on Children and Marital Dissolution." In Coleman, M. and L.H. Ganong, Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Amato, P.R. and J.M. Sobolewski (2003). "The Effects of Divorce on Fathers and Children: Nonresidential Fathers and Stepfathers." In Lamb, M., The Role of the Father in Child Development (4th edition). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Anstey, K.J., S.M. Hofer and M.A. Luszcz (2003). "A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Late Life Sensory and Cognitive Function over Eight Years: Evidence for Specific and Common Factors Underlying Change." Psychology and Aging 18(4):714-726.
Baumer, E., J. Horney, R.B. Felson and J.L. Lauritsen (2003). "Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence." Criminology 41(1):39-71.
Beekman, M., B.T. Heijmans, N.G. Martin, J.B. Whitfield, N.L. Pedersen, U. DeFaire, H. Snieder, N. Lakenberg, H.D. Suchiman, P. de Knijff, R.R. Frants, G.B. van Ommen, C.C. Kluft, G.P. Vogler, D.I. Boomsma and P.E. Slagboom (2003). "Evidence for a Qtl on Chromosome 19 Influencing Ldl Cholesterol Levels in the General Population." European Journal of Human Genetics 11(11):845-850.
Beron, K. and G. Farkas (2004). "Oral Language and Reading Success: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach." Structural Equation Modeling 11(1):110-131.
Blair, C., R. Peters and F.R. Lawrence (2003). "Family Dynamics and Child Outcomes in Early Intervention: The Role of Developmental Theory in the Specification of Effects." Early Childhood Research Quarterly 18(4):446-467.
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). "The Nature and Nurture of Blood Pressure in African Americans." Ethnicity and Disease 13(2):297-298.
Cohen, J.H. (2003). "Anthropologists, Methods and What We Write about What We Do." Anthropology News 44(9):20.
Cohen, J.H. and J.A. Kurland (2004). "Thinking about Change: Biological Evolution, Culture Change, and the Importance of Scale." In Rice, P.C. and P. Salzman (Eds.), Thinking Anthropologically. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
Cohen, J.H., A.G. Cruz, R.G. Morales and G.E. Chick (2003). "Understanding Transnational Processes: Modeling Migration Outcomes in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico." Field Methods 15(4):366-385.
Crowther, M. and K.E. Whitfield (2003). Ethnogerontology and African Americans (3rd edition). Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
Dodoo, F.N., M.M. Sloan and E.M. Zulu (2003). "Space, Context, and Hardship: Socializing Children into Sexual Activity in Kenyan Slums." In Agyei-Mensah, S. and J.B. Casterline, Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Fagan, P., G. King, D. Lawrence, S.A. Petrucci, R.G. Robinson, D. Banks, S. Marable and R. Grana (2004). "Eliminating Tobacco-Related Health Disparities: Directions for Future Research." American Journal of Public Health 94(2):211.
Farkas, G. (2004) "The Black-White Test Score Gap." Contexts Spring Issue.
Felson, R.B. (2003). "Motives for Sexual Coercion." In Silberman, M., Violence and Society: A Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Fitzgerald, J.T., L.A. Wray, J.B. Halter, B.C. Williams and M.A. Supiano (2003). "Relating Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experience to an Interest in Geriatric Medicine." Gerontologist 43(6):849-855.
Goesling, B. and G. Firebaugh (2004). "The Trend in International Health Inequality." Population and Development Review 30(March):131-146.
Greenwood, J., N. Guner and J.A. Knowles (2003). "More on Marriage, Fertility, and the Distribution of Income." International Economic Review 44(3):827-862.
Harbison, S.F. and W.C. Robinson (2003). "Globalization, Family Structure, and Declining Fertility in the Developing World." Review of Radical Political Economics 35(1):44-55.
Hillemeier, M., J.C. Lynch, S. Harper and M. Casper (2003). "Measuring Contextual Characteristics for Community Health." Health Services Research 38(6):1645-1717.
Hudson, R. and K.E. Whitfield (2003). "Public Policy and Aging: Health Disparities." Public Policy and Aging Report 13(3):1-24.
Jensen, L.I. and P.M. Karunaratne (2003). "The World Bank and its Renewed Attention to Poverty Alleviation." In Van Genugten, W., P. Hunt and S. Matthews, World Bank, IMF and Human Rights. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers.
Jensen, L.I. and T. Slack (2004). "Beyond Low Wages: Underemployment in America." In Crouter, A.C. and A. Booth, Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Kemper, P. (2003). "Long-Term Care Research and Policy." The Gerontologist 43(4):436-446.
King, V., K.M. Harris and H.E. Heard (2004). "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Nonresident Father Involvement." Journal of Marriage and Family 66:1-21.
King, V., M. Silverstein, G.H. Elder, V.L. Bengtson and R.D. Conger (2003). "Relations with Grandparents: Rural Midwest versus Urban Southern California." Journal of Family Issues 24:1044-1069.
Lawrence, F.R. and C. Blair (2003). "Factorial Invariance in Preventive Intervention: Modeling the Development of Intelligence in Low Birth Weight, Preterm Infants." Prevention Science 4(4):249-261.
Lee, B.A. (2003). "Residential Segregation." In Demeny, P., and G. McNicoll, The Encyclopedia of Population (2nd Ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillian Reference USA.
Lee, B.A. and T. Price-Spratlen (2004). "The Geography of Homelessness in American Communities: Concentration or Dispersion?" City & Community 3(1):3-27.
Lee, B.A., C.R. Farrell and B.G. Link (2004). "Revisiting the Contact Hypothesis: The Case of Public Exposure to Homelessness." American Sociological Review 68(1):40-63.
Lionikas, A., D.A. Blizard, D.J. Vandenbergh, M.G. Glover, J.T. Stout, G.P. Vogler, G.E. McClearn and L. Larsson (2003). "Genetic Architecture of Fast- and Slow-Twitch Skeletal Muscle Weight in 200-Day-Old Mice of the C57BL/6J and DBA/2J Lineage." Physiological Genomics 16(1):141-152.
MacKinnon, A.J., H. Christensen, S.M. Hofer, A.E. Korten and A.F. Jorm (2003). "Use It and Still Lose It? The Association between Activity and Cognitive Performance Established Using Latent Growth Techniques in a Community Sample." Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition 10(3):215-229.
Mansfield, P.K. and S. Bracken (2003). "The Tremin Program: Sixty-Eight Years of Research on Menstruation and Women's Health." Women's Studies Quarterly 31:25-41.
Mansfield, P.K. and S. Bracken (2003). TREMIN: A History of the World's Oldest Ongoing Study of Menstruation and Women's Health. Lemont, PA: East Rim Publishers.
Mansfield, P.K., P.B. Koch and G. Gierach (2003). "Husbands' Support of Their Perimenopausal Wives." Women and Health 38(3):97-112.
Martin, M. and S.M. Hofer (2004). "Intraindividual Variability, Change, and Aging: Conceptual and Analytical Issues." Gerontology 50(1):7-11.
Oropesa, R.S., N.S. Landale and T.S. Kenkre (2003). "Income Allocation in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: The Case of Mainland Puerto Ricans." Journal of Marriage and the Family 65(4):910-926.
Parisi, D., D.K. McLaughlin, S.M. Grice, M. Taquino and D.A. Gill (2003). "TANF Participation Rates: Do Community Conditions Matter?" Rural Sociology 68(4):491-512.
Post, D. (2003). El trabajo, la escuela y el bienestar infantiles en América latina: Los casos de Chile, Perú y México. Fondo de cultura económica.
Post, D. (2003). "Hong Kong Higher Education, 1981-2001: Public Policy and Re-Emergent Social Stratification." Oxford Review of Education 29(4):545-570.
Post, D. (2003). "Post-Secondary Education in Hong Kong - Repercussions for Inequality and Civil Society." Asian Survey 43(6):989-1011.
Quadagno, J., M.A. Hardy and L. Hazelrigg (2003). "Labour Market Transitions and the Erosion of the Fordist Lifecycle: Discarding Older Workers in the Automobile Manufacturing and Banking Industries in the United States." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice 28(4):640-651.
Riggs, N.R., C. Blair and M.T. Greenberg (2003). "Concurrent and 2-Year Longitudinal Relations between Executive Function and the Behavior of 1st and 2nd Grade Children." Child Neuropsychology 9(4):267-276.
Robbins, P.C., J. Monahan and E. Silver (2003). "Mental Disorder, Violence, and Gender." Law and Human Behavior 27(6):561-571.
Robinson, W.C. and G.L. Lewis (2003). "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Behaviour Change Interventions: A Proposed New Approach and an Application to Egypt." Journal of Biosocial Science 35(4):499-512.
Rogers, S.J. (2004). "Dollars, Dependency, and Divorce: Four Perspectives on the Role of Wives' Income." Journal of Marriage and Family 66(1):59-74.
Roth, M.J., D.J. Baer, P.S. Albert, T.W. Castonguay, J.F. Dorgan, S.M. Dawsey, E.D. Brown, T.J. Hartman, W.S. Campbell, C.A. Giffen, J.T. Judd and P.R. Taylor (2003). "Relationship between Serum Leptin Levels and Alcohol Consumption in a Controlled Feeding and Alcohol Ingestion Study." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 95(22):1722-1725.
Ruback, R.B., J.N. Shaffer and M.A. Logue (2004). "The Imposition and Effects of Restitution in Pennsylvania: Effects of Size of County and Specialized Collections Units." Crime and Delinquency 50:168-188.
Schoen, R. and P. Tufis (2003). "Precursors of Nonmarital Fertility in the United States." Journal of Marriage and Family 65(4):1030-1040.
Schoen, R. and S.H. Jonsson (2003). "A Diminishing Population Whose Every Cohort More Than Replaces Itself." Demographic Research 9(6).
Schoen, R. and S.H. Jonsson (2003). "Modeling Momentum in Gradual Demographic Transitions." Demography 40(4):621-635.
Shea, D.G., A. Davey and E.E. Femia (2003). "Exploring Assistance in Sweden and the United States." The Gerontologist 43:712-721.
Short, P.F. and D.R. Graefe (2003). "Battery-Powered Health Insurance? Stability in Coverage of the Uninsured." Health Affairs 22(6):244-255.
Slack, T. and L.I. Jensen (2004). "Employment Adequacy in Extractive Industries: An Analysis of Underemployment, 1974 - 1998." Society and Natural Resources 17(2):129-146.
Sliwinski, M.J., S.M. Hofer and C. Hall (2003). "Correlated and Coupled Cognitive Change in Older Adults with and without Preclinical Dementia." Psychology and Aging 18(4):672-683.
Sliwinski, M.J., S.M. Hofer, C. Hall, H. Buschke and R.B. Lipton (2003). "Modeling Memory Decline in Older Adults: The Importance of Preclinical Dementia, Attrition and Chronological Age." Psychology and Aging 18(4):658-671.
Susman, E.J. and A. Rogol (2003). "Puberty and Psychological Development." In Lerner, R.M. and L. Steinberg, The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology. New York: Wiley.
Terwilliger, J.D. and K.M. Weiss (2003). "Confounding, Ascertainment Bias, and the Blind Quest for a Genetic 'Fountain of Youth'." Annals of Medicine 35(7):532-544.
Weiss, K.M. (2003). "THINK! Being a Student of Frank B. Livingstone." Human Biology 75(4):625-628.
Weiss, K.M. and A.V. Buchanan (2004). Genetics and the Logic of Evolution. New York: Wiley-Liss.
Whitfield, K.E. (2003). "Sources of Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging among African Americans." In Boston, P.Q. (Ed.) , The Cultural Diversity of Aging: The 14th Annual Southeastern Regional Student Convention in Gerontology and Geriatrics; Symposia, Posters, and Keynote Address. Athens: The University of Georgia Gerontology Center.
Wood, J.W. and S.N. Dewitte-Avina (2003). "Was the Black Death Yersinial Plague?" The Lancet Infectious Diseases 3:327-328.
Wood, J.W., R.J. Ferrell and S.N. Dewitte-Avina (2003). "The Temporal Dynamics of the Fourteenth-Century Black Death: New Evidence from English Ecclesiastical Records." Human Biology 75(4):427-448.
Zelinsky, W. (2004). "America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?" Professional Geographer 56(1):142.
Zimprich, D., S.M. Hofer and M.J. Aartsen (2004). "Short-Term versus Long-Term Changes in Processing Speed." Gerontology 50(1):17-21.
Zulu, E.M., F.N. Dodoo and A.C. Ezeh (2003). "Urbanization, Poverty and Sex: Roots of Risky Sexual Behaviors in Slum Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya." In Kalipeni, E., S. Craddock, J. Oppong and J. Ghosh, HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
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