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Editor:
Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Spring 2006
Student News
New Students in the Graduate Program in Demography
Kristin Burnett, Sociology and Demography
Johanna Yngvason, Anthropology and Demography
Students Present Research at PAA
Kristin Burnett, "The Relationships of Time-Varying Family Structure and Poverty Status to Child Trajectories of Mathematical Achievement"
Satvika Chalasani, "Changing Effects of Education on Parents' Time with Children"
Yen-hsin (Alice) Cheng, "Teenagers' Smoking Trajectories from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood"
Alisha J. Coleman (with Dr. Anastasia R. Snyder, Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin, and Dr. Jill L. Findeis), "Do Grandparent-Headed Households Promote Intergenerational Income Transfers and Residential Stability in Children's Lives?" (poster)
Alisha J. Coleman (with Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin), "Contingent Work and Nonstandard Employment: Prevalence and Outcomes" (poster)
Shawn Dorius, "Gender Inequality: An Assessment of World Trends in Economic, Political, Health, and Educational Gender Differences"
Rachel Durham (with Dr. Duane Alwin and Dr. Ryan McCammon, University of Michigan), "Does Family Structure Matter in the Educational Attainment Process?"
Rachel Durham, "Who Are the Language Minority Students of the ECLS-K? Demographic Predictors of English Language Acquisition" (poster)
Ashley E. Frost (with Dr. Francis Dodoo), "Prospects for Change: Adolescent Male Perspectives on Marital Gender Relations in Ghana" (poster)
Bina Gubhaju, "A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of the Role of Gender-Power Relations on Women's Contraceptive Choice in Nepal" (poster)
Matthew Hall (with Dr. Gordon F. De Jong and Dr. Deborah R. Graefe) "Welfare Rules, State Economics, and Life Course Transitions in the Interstate Migration of Immigrants"
Shelley K. Irving, "Work, Welfare, and the Financial Well-Being of Poor Women after Migration"
Julianne Ohlander, "The Relationship between Attitudes toward Work and Suicide in Sweden"
Tom O. Owuor, "Social Change and Ethnic Variation in Seasonality of Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa" (poster)
Beth Rustenbach, (with Dr. Alan Booth), "Risk and Resilience and the Transition to Cohabitation, Parenting, and Marriage During the Emerging Adulthood Stage of Development"
Beth Rustenbach, "Friendship Network Structure and Quality and Adolescent Sexual Relationships" (poster)
Mindy Scott, "Nonresident Fathers and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Explaining the Link" (poster)
Patrice J. Smith, "Inequality and Infant Health: A Multilevel Approach to Disentangling Correlates of Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Disparities in Low Birth Weight Infants"
Corey S. Sparks, "A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Immigrant Behavior in Northern Orkney, 1851-1901" (poster)
Katherine Stamps, (with Dr. Stephanie A. Bohon, University of Georgia), "Educational Attainment in New and Established Latino Metropolitan Destinations"
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