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Spring 2005

Student News

Students Present Research at PAA

Paola Tami Aritomi, "Mommy, Are You Going to Work Today? A Quantitative/Qualitative, Multidisciplinary Analysis of Peruvian Mothers' Employment"

Latrica E. Best (with Dr. Mark D. Hayward), "Childhood Influences on Diabetes among Older Americans"

Prem Bahadur Bhandari and Sundar S. Shrestha, "Labor Availability, Agricultural Technology Use and Contraceptive Attitudes in Nepal" (poster)

John Boateng (with Dr. Francis Dodoo), "Does Education Make Men in Sub-Saharan Africa More Receptive to Women's Contraceptive Behavior?"

Alisha Coleman and Mary Ann Demi (with Dr. Anastasia R. Snyder, Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin and Dr. Jill L. Findeis), "Race, Place and Family: Race/Ethnic Differences among Nonmetro Female-Headed Families"

Kimberly A. Daniels, "Economic Dependency and the Division of Household Labor: A Longitudinal Examination of the Impact of Relative Earnings on Household Labor" (poster)

Jeffrey Dew, "Sinking, Swimming, and Yachting in Deep Water: The Role of Consumer Debt and Assets in Marriage" (poster)

Rachel E. Durham and Patrice Johnelle Smith, "Nonmetropolitan Status and Kindergarteners' Early Literacy Skills: Is There a Rural Disadvantage?"

Claudia L. Galindo, "Hispanic Learning Trajectories: Country of Origin, Generational Status and English Ability in the Early School Years"

Bina Gubhaju (with Dr. Gordon F. De Jong), "Individual versus Household Migration Decision Rules: Gender Differences in Intentions to Migrate in South Africa"

Mira M. Hidajat and Latrica E. Best (with Dr. Mark D. Hayward), "The Life Table without the Civil Registration System: Alternative Models of Indonesian Mortality" (poster)

Shelley K. Irving (with Dr. Deborah Roempke Graefe), "Predicting Post-2000 Welfare-to-Work Transition: Personal and Family Life Course, State Welfare Rules, and State Economic Effects"

Anuja Jayaraman (with Dr. Jill L. Findeis), "Disaster, Population and Poverty Dynamics among Bangladeshi Households"

Tanya Kenkre, "Education, Economic Participation, and Women's Status in India" (poster)

Hui-Peng Liew (with Dr. David Post), "Mathematics and Science Achievement in Malaysia"

Azizur R. Molla, "Pond Water Contamination And Incidence of Disease in Rural Bangladesh" (poster)

Azizur R. Molla (with Dr. Gretchen Cornwell), "Tube-Wells as a Community Health Intervention: Can They Be Effective in Bangladesh?" (poster)

Julianne Ohlander, "The Role of Demographic Changes in the Decline of Suicide in Sweden" (poster)

Tom O. Owuor, William Sambisa and Peter Moyi, "Health Seeking Behavior and Child Health Outcome: Malaria Treatment and Preventive Behavior in Kenya and Zimbabwe" (poster)

Leila Rodriguez and Mira M. Hidajat, "Diasporic Migrations: A Comparative Analysis of Guatemalans in Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, and the United States"

Mindy E. Scott (with Dr. Alan Booth), "Pre-Divorce Factors Related to Post-Divorce Father-Child Relationship Quality"

Yetty Shobo, "African Immigrants: Patterns of Assimilation - Past Research and New Findings"

Yetty Shobo, "Risk Perception and Response to Perceived Risk Models: Findings from the Slums of Nairobi" (poster)

Karina M. Shreffler (with Gloria Chepngeno, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and Dr. Francis Dodoo), "The Impact of Land Availability on Fertility Behavior in Nyeri District, Kenya"

Karina M. Shreffler (with Amy E. Pirretti, Dr. Stephanie Lanza, and Dr. Ann Crouter), "The Work Preferences and Labor Force Participation of Rural Mothers"

Sundar S. Shrestha and Prem Bahadur Bhandari (with Pawan Shrestha, Family Planning Association Nepal), "Spousal Communication and Attitudes Towards and Practice of Contraception in Nepal: A Gender Comparison" (poster)

Michele Steinmetz, "Quality of Care in Kenya's Clinics: A Hierarchical Linear Approach" (poster)

Samuel Sturgeon, "The Effect of PRWORA on Welfare Caseloads in Pennsylvania: Fixed Effects Versus Random Effects Models" (poster)

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