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Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Spring 2004
Student News
Five Students Selected as Population Policy Fellows
Five Penn State Demography Program international graduate students have been selected by the Population Reference Bureau (Washington, DC) to be Population Policy Fellows for the 2004-2005 cohort. The selected dual-Ph.D. students are: Tami Aritomi (HDFS and Demography candidate from Peru), Bina Gubhaju (Sociology and Demography candidate from Nepal), Mahmuda Khatun (Rural Sociology and Demography candidate from Bangladesh), Tom Owuor (Sociology and Demography candidate from Kenya), and William Sambisa (Rural Sociology and Demography candidate from Zimbabwe).
Students Present Research at PAA (See photos of Poster Presentations)
Paola Tami Aritomi, "Matching Non-Parental Child Care Usage and Preferences by Race/Ethnicity: Is It Connected to Maternal Work Stability?" (poster)
Latrica Best, "The Chronic Burden of Diabetes: Exploring the Racial Gap in Functional Status among Older Americans" (poster)
Prem Bahadur Bhandari, Sundar S. Shrestha and Nalini Chhetri, "Child Labor and Forest Resource Collection: Variation in Individual Fertility Preferences in Nepal"
Cristina Bradatan (with Dr. Nancy S. Landale), "Below Replacement Fertility in Eastern Europe. Case Study of Romania"
Jeff Dew (with Dr. David Eggebeen), "Integrating the Structure and Process of Marital Commitment: How Do Moral and Personal Commitment Protect Families Facing Financial Difficulties?" (poster)
Rachel Durham (with Dr. George Farkas and Dr. Carol Scheffner Hammer), "How Linguistic Skills Mediate the Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Reading and Math Achievement in the Elementary Grades" (poster)
Tesfayi Gebreselassie, "Maternal Education and Child Nutritional Status: Do Family and Community Matter? The Case of Ethiopia" (poster)
Mira M. Hidajat (with Dr. Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University and Dr. Mark D. Hayward), "Active Life Expectancy, Gender, and Education among Elderly Indonesians"
Anuja Jayaraman (with S. Chandrasekhar), "A District Level Analysis of the Total Fertility Rate Using Indian Census Data" (poster) (award-winner)
Stefan H. Jonsson (with Dr. Robert Schoen and Paula Tufis), "A Population with Continually Declining Mortality"
Bob Du Lee (with Dr. Geoffrey Godbey and Dr. Yaoyin Zhu), "Use of Computers and the Internet among Older Adults in the United States and the P. R. of China: A Cross-Cultural Study" (poster)
Danielle C. May (with Dr. Gordon F. De Jong), "Disability and Migration Behavior in the Early Years of Welfare Reform: Do Poverty and Social Support Change the Equation?" (poster)
Niveditha Menon (with Dr. Michael P. Johnson), "A Feminist Study of Domestic Violence in Rural India"
Julianne K. Ohlander, "A Comparison of the Division of Household Labor in the United States and Sweden" (poster)
Tom O. Owuor and Bina Gubhaju, "Women's Empowerment and Fertility Decision-Making in Africa: Does the Presence of Inlaws Make a Difference?" (poster)
Leila Rodriguez (with Dr. Jeffrey H. Cohen), "Generations and Motivations: Russian and Other Ex-Soviet Immigrants in Costa Rica"
Mindy Scott (with Dr. Valarie King), "A Comparison of Cohabiting Relationships among Older and Younger Adults"
Yetunde Shobo (with Dr. Francis Dodoo), "Sexual Behavior and Polygyny: Poverty-Driven Slum, Urban, and Rural Differences in Kenya" (poster)
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