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Editor:
Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Spring 2009
Selected Publications
Amato, P.R., N.S. Landale, T. Habasevich, A. Booth, D.J. Eggebeen, R. Schoen and S.M. McHale (2008). "Precursors of Young Women's Family Formation Pathways." Journal of Marriage and Family 70(5):1271-1286.
Asbury, K., D.M. Almeida, J. Hibel, N. Harlaar and R. Plomin (2008). "Clones in the Classroom: A Daily Diary Study of the Nonshared Environmental Relationship between Monozygotic Twin Differences in School Experience and Achievement." Twin Research and Human Genetics 11(6):586-595.
Baker, D. and G. Lenhardt (2008). "The Institutional Crisis of the German Research University." Higher Education Policy 21(1):49-64.
Bean, F.D., C. Feliciano, J. Lee and J. Van Hook (2009). "The New U.S. Immigrants: Do They Elucidate or Confound Our Understanding of the African-American Experience?." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621(1):202-220.
Beverly, E.A., C.K. Miller and L.A. Wray (2008). "Spousal Support and Food-Related Behavior Change in Middle-Aged and Older Adults Living With Type 2 Diabetes." Health Education & Behavior 35(5):707-720.
Blizard, D.A., A. Lionikas, D.J. Vandenbergh, T. Vasilopoulos, G.S. Gerhard, J.W. Griffith, L.C. Klein, J.T. Stout, H.A. Mack, J.M. Lakoski, L. Larsson, J.M. Spicer, G.P. Vogler and G.E. McClearn (2009). "Blood Pressure and Heart Rate QTL in Mice of the B6/D2 Lineage: Sex Differences and Environmental Influences." Physiological Genomics 36(3):158-166.
Bohon, S.A., K. Stamps and J.H. Atiles (2008). "Transportation and Migrant Adjustment in Georgia." Population Research and Policy Review 27(3):273-291.
Booth, A., A.C. Crouter, S. Bianchi and J. Seltzer (Eds.) (2008). Intergenerational Caregiving. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Bradley, M.S. and J.T. Ulmer (2009). "Social Worlds of Stripping: Processual Order and Commitment in Exotic Dance Establishments." The Sociological Quarterly 50(1):29-60.
Browning, C.R., L.A. Burrington, T. Leventhal and J. Brooks-Gunn (2008). "Neighborhood Structural Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and Sexual Risk Behavior among Urban Youth." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49(3):269-285.
Burrington, L.A. and C.R. Browning (2008). "Neighborhood Context: Adulthood." In Carr, D., Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Vol. 2: Adulthood. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
Burrington, L.A. and C.R. Browning (2008). "Neighborhood Context: Childhood and Adolescence." In Carr, D., Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Vol. 1: Childhood and Adolescence. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
Chikobvu, P., C. Lombard, A.J. Flisher, G. King, L. Townsend and M. Muller (2009). "Bias in a Binary Risk Behaviour Model Subject to Inconsistent Reports and Dropout in a South African High School Cohort Study." Statistics in Medicine 28(3):494-509.
Crouter, A.C. and A. Booth (Eds.) (2009). Work-Life Policies. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Crouter, A.C., M.E. Baril, K.D. Davis and S.M. McHale (2008). "Processes Linking Social Class and Racial Socialization in African American Dual-Earner Families." Journal of Marriage and Family 70(5):1311-1325.
Davis, K.D. and K. Stamps (2009). "Limited, Mismatched, and Unequal: Work-life Policies and Practices in the United States." In Crouter, A.C. and A. Booth, Work-Life Policies. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Davis, K.D., W.B. Goodman, A.E. Pirretti and D.M. Almeida (2008). "Nonstandard Work Schedules, Perceived Family Well-Being, and Daily Stressors." Journal of Marriage and Family 70(4):991-1003.
De Jong, G.F. and D.R. Graefe (2008). "Family Life Course Transitions and the Economic Consequences of Internal Migration." Population, Space and Place 14(4):267-282.
Dorn, L.D., E.J. Susman, S. Pabst, B. Huang, H. Kalkwarf and S. Grimes (2008). "Association of Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety with Bone Mass and Density in Ever-Smoking and Never-Smoking Adolescent Girls." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 162(12):1181-1188.
Downs, D.S., M.F. Feinberg, M.M. Hillemeier, C.S. Weisman, G.A. Chase, C.H. Chuang, R.L. Parrott and L.A. Francis (2008). "Design of the Central Pennsylvania Women's Health Study (CePAWHS) Strong Healthy Women Intervention: Improving Preconceptional Health." Maternal and Child Health Journal 13(1):18-28.
Dreschel, N.A. and D.A. Granger (2009). "Methods of Collection for Salivary Cortisol Measurement in Dogs." Hormones and Behavior 55(1):163-168.
Eiden, R.D., Y. Veira and D.A. Granger (2009). "Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Infant Cortisol Reactivity." Child Development 80(2):528-543.
Felson, R.B. and D.W. Osgood (2008). "Violent Crime." In Goode, E., Out of Control?: Evaluating the General Theory of Crime. Stanford University Press.
Finke, R. and A. Adamczyk (2008). "Cross-National Moral Beliefs: The Influence of National Religious Context." Sociological Quarterly 49(4):617-652.
Firebaugh, G. (2008). "Implications of Implication Analysis." Sociological Methodology 38:51-58.
Flanagan, C.A. (2008). "Private Anxieties and Public Hopes: The Perils and Promise of Youth in the Context of Globalization." In Cole, J. and D. Durham, Figuring the Future: Children, Youth, and Globalization. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
Flanagan, C.A., M. Stout and L.S. Gallay (2008). "It's My Body and None of Your Business: Developmental Changes in Adolescents' Perceptions of Rights Concerning Health." Journal of Social Issues 64(4):815-834.
Fortunato, C.K., A.E. Dribin, D.A. Granger and K.A. Buss (2008). "Salivary Alpha-Amylase and Cortisol in Toddlers: Differential Relations to Affective Behavior." Developmental Psychobiology 50(8):807-818.
Frisco, M.L. (2008). "Obesity, Childhood and Adolescence." In Carr, D., Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Vol. 1: Childhood and Adolescence. Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillan Reference USA.
Goesling, B. and D. Baker (2008). "Three Faces of International Inequality." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26(2):183-198.
Granger, D.A., C.K. Fortunato and L.C. Hibel (2008). "Salivary Hormones in Research and Diagnostics." In Wong, D., Salivary Diagnostics. Blackwell Press.
Gubhaju, B. and G.F. De Jong (2009). "Individual versus Household Migration Decision Rules: Gender and Marital Status Differences in Intentions to Migrate in South Africa." International Migration 47(1):31-61.
Gump, B.B., J. Reihman, P. Stewart, E. Lonky, T. Darvill, D.A. Granger and K.A. Matthews (2009). "Trajectories of Maternal Depressive Symptoms over Her Child's Life Span: Relation to Adrenocortical, Cardiovascular, and Emotional Functioning in Children." Development and Psychopathology 21(1):207-225.
Hao, L. and S. Pong (2008). "The Role of School in the Upward Mobility of Disadvantaged Immigrants' Children." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620(1):62-89.
Harmon, A.G., N.R. Towe, C.K. Fortunato and D.A. Granger (2008). "Differences in Saliva Collection Location and Disparities in Baseline and Diurnal Rhythms of Alpha-Amylase: A Preliminary Note of Caution." Hormones and Behavior 54(5):592-596.
Hillemeier, M.M., D.S. Downs, M.F. Feinberg, C.S. Weisman, C.H. Chuang, R.L. Parrott, D.L. Velott, L.A. Francis, S.A. Baker, A. Dyer and V.M. Chinchilli (2008). "Improving Women's Preconceptional Health: Findings from a Randomized Trial of the Strong Healthy Women Intervention in the Central Pennsylvania Women's Health Study." Women's Health Issues 18(6):S87-S96.
Hohmann-Marriott, B. and P.R. Amato (2008). "Relationship Quality in Interethnic Marriages and Cohabitations." Social Forces 87(2):825-855.
Hook, J.L. and S. Chalasani (2008). "Gendered Expectations? Reconsidering Single Fathers' Child-Care Time." Journal of Marriage and Family 70(4):978-990.
Iceland, J. and K.A. Nelson (2008). "Hispanic Segregation in Metropolitan America: Exploring the Multiple Forms of Spatial Assimilation." American Sociological Review 73(5):741-765.
Irving, S.K. (2008). "State Welfare Rules, TANF Exits, and Geographic Context: Does Place Matter?." Rural Sociology 73(4):605-630.
Jackson, J., D. Mandel, J. Blanchard, M. Carlson, B. Cherry, S. Azen, C. Chou, M. Jordan-Marsh, T. Forman, B. White, D.A. Granger, B. Knight and F. Clark (2009). "Confronting Challenges in Intervention Research with Ethnically Diverse Older Adults: The USC Well Elderly II Trial." Clinical Trials 6(1):90-101.
Jensen, L.A. and C.A. Flanagan (2008). "Immigrant Civic Engagement: New Translations (Special Issue on Civic Engagement among Immigrant Youth)." Applied Developmental Science 12(2):55-56.
Johnson, B.D., J.T. Ulmer and J.H. Kramer (2008). "The Social Context of Guideline Circumvention: The Case of Federal District Courts." Criminology 46(3):737-783.
Kramer, J.H. and J.T. Ulmer (2008). Sentencing Guidelines: Lessons from Pennsylvania. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Kreager, D. (2008). "Guarded Borders: Adolescent Interracial Romance and Peer Trouble at School." Social Forces 87(2):889-910.
Kwan, M., R.D. Peterson, C.R. Browning, L.A. Burrington, C.A. Calder and L.J. Krivo (2008). "Reconceptualizing Sociogeographic Context for the Study of Drug Use, Abuse and Addiction." In Thomas, Y.F., D. Richardson and I. Cheung, Geography and Drug Addiction. Berlin: Springer.
Lambert, B.W., J.D. Terwilliger and K.M. Weiss (2008). "ForSim: A Tool for Exploring the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits with Controlled Truth." Bioinformatics 24(16):1821-1822.
Martin, D., P. Rees, H. Durham and S.A. Matthews (2009). "Census and Population Analysis." In Rees, P., L. Mackay, D. Martin and H. Durham, E-Learning for Geographers: Online Materials, Resources and Repositories. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
Martin, M. (2008). "The Intergenerational Correlation in Weight: How Genetic Resemblance Reveals the Social Role of Families." American Journal of Sociology 114(S1):S67-S105.
Matthews, S.A., A.V. Moudon and M. Daniel (2009). "Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Enhancing Research Relevant to Policy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Weight." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 36(4(Suppl)):171-176.
McLaughlin, D.K. and A.J. Coleman-Jensen (2008). "Nonstandard Employment in the Nonmetropolitan United States." Rural Sociology 73(4):631-659.
Miller, P.E., J.J. Vasey, P.F. Short and T.J. Hartman (2009). "Dietary Supplement Use in Adult Cancer Survivors." Oncology Nursing Forum 36(1):61-68.
Mohrman, K., W. Ma and D. Baker (2008). "The Research University in Transition: The Emerging Global Model." Higher Education Policy 21(1):5-27.
Morgan, P.L., G. Farkas and J. Hibel (2008). "Matthew Effects for Whom?." Learning Disabilities Quarterly 31(4):187-198.
Mortimer, J.T. and J.A. Staff (2008). "School to Work Transition." In Carr, D., Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Vol. 2: Adulthood. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
Oropesa, R.S., N.S. Landale and M.J. Greif (2008). "From Puerto Rican to Pan-Ethnic in New York City." Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(7):1315-1339.
Plutzer, E. and M.B. Berkman (2008). "The Polls--Trends: Evolution, Creationism, and the Teaching of Human Origins in Schools." Public Opinion Quarterly 72(3):540-553.
Reardon, S.F., C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, K. Bischoff and G. Firebaugh (2009). "Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000." Social Science Research 38(1):55-70.
Roff, A. and R.T. Wilson (2008). "A Novel SNP in a Vitamin D Response Element of the CYP24A1 Promoter Reduces Protein Binding, Transactivation, and Gene Expression." The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 112(1-3):47-54.
Ruback, R.B., A.C. Cares and S.H. Haynes (2008). "Crime Victims' Perceptions of Restitution: The Importance of Payment and Understanding." Violence and Victims 23(6):697-710.
Schreck, C.J., E.A. Stewart and D.W. Osgood (2008). "A Reappraisal of the Overlap of Violent Offenders and Victims." Criminology 46(4):871-906.
Schuetze, P., F.A. Lopez, D.A. Granger and R.D. Eiden (2008). "The Association between Prenatal Exposure to Cigarettes and Cortisol Reactivity and Regulation in 7-Month-Old Infants." Developmental Psychobiology 50(8):819-834.
Siennick, S.E. and J.A. Staff (2008). "Explaining the Educational Deficits of Delinquent Youths." Criminology 46(3):609-635.
Slack, T. and L.I. Jensen (2008). "Birth and Fortune Revisited: A Cohort Analysis of Underemployment, 1974-2004." Population Research and Policy Review 27(6):729-749.
Smith, E.A., L. Palen, L.L. Caldwell, A.J. Flisher, J.W. Graham, C. Mathews, L. Wegner and T. Vergnani (2008). "Substance Use and Sexual Risk Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa: An Evaluation of the HealthWise Program." Prevention Science 9(4):311-321.
Smith, R.A. and R. Rimal (2009). "The Impact of Social Capital on HIV-related Actions as Mediated by Personal and Proxy Efficacies in Namibia." AIDS and Behavior 13(1):133-144.
Staff, J.A. and D. Kreager (2008). "Too Cool for School? Peer Status, Violence, and High School Dropout." Social Forces 87(1):445-471.
Staff, J.A., M.E. Patrick, E. Loken and J.L. Maggs (2008). "Teenage Alcohol Use and Educational Attainment." Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 69(6):848-858.
Stroud, L.R., E. Foster, G.D. Papandonatos, K. Handwerger, D.A. Granger, K.T. Kivlighan and R. Niaura (2009). "Stress Response and the Adolescent Transition: Performance versus Peer Rejection Stressors." Development and Psychopathology 21(1):47-68.
Thomas, K.J. (2008). "Return Migration in Africa and the Relationship between Educational Attainment and Labor Market Success: Evidence from Uganda." International Migration Review 42(3):652-674.
Trauger, A., C. Sachs, M. Barbercheck, N.E. Kiernan, K. Brasier and J.L. Findeis (2008). "Gender Identity and Knowledge Exchange." Journal of Rural Studies 24(4):432-439.
Ulmer, J.T., C.D. Bader and M. Gault (2008). "Do Moral Communities Play a Role in Criminal Sentencing? Evidence from Pennsylvania." The Sociological Quarterly 49(4):737-768.
Volkman, J.E. and M.M. Hillemeier (2008). "School Nurse Communication Effectiveness with Physicians and Satisfaction with School Health Services." Journal of School Nursing 24(5):310-318.
Wegner, L., A.J. Flisher, L.L. Caldwell, T. Vergnani and E.A. Smith (2008). "Healthwise South Africa: Cultural Adaptation of a School-Based Risk Prevention Programme." Health Education Research 23(6):1085-1096.
Wegner, L., A.J. Flisher, P. Chikobvu, C. Lombard and G. King (2008). "Leisure Boredom and High School Dropout in Cape Town, South Africa." Journal of Adolescence 31(3):421-431.
Weiss, K.M. (2008). "A Formidable Shape. . . That Seem'd Woman." Evolutionary Anthropology 17(5):208-212.
Weiss, K.M. and A.V. Buchanan (2009). The Mermaid's Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Whitfield, K.E., J.C. Allaire, R. BeLue and C.L. Edwards (2008). "Are Comparisons the Answer to Understanding Behavioral Aspects of Aging in Racial and Ethnic Groups?." Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 63(5):P301-P308.
Wiggins, C.L., D.K. Espey, P.A. Wingo, J.S. Kaur, R.T. Wilson, J. Swan, B.A. Miller, M.A. Jim, J.J. Kelly and A.P. Lanier (2008). "Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999-2004." Cancer 113(5 Suppl):1142-1152.
Wilkes, R. and J. Iceland (2008). "Hypersegregation." In Parrillo, V.N., Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wilson, R.T., L.C. Richardson, J.J. Kelly, J.S. Kaur, M.A. Jim and A.P. Lanier (2008). "Cancers of the Urinary Tract among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999-2004." Cancer 113(5 Suppl):1213-1224.
Wray, L.A. (2008). "Diabetes, Adulthood and Later Life." In Carr, D., Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Volume 3: Later Life. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
Wray-Lake, L., A.K. Syvertsen and C.A. Flanagan (2008). "Contested Citizenship and Social Exclusion: Adolescent Arab American Immigrants' Views of the Social Contract." Applied Developmental Science 12(2):84-92.
Yorgason, J.B., A. Booth and D.R. Johnson (2008). "Health, Disability, and Marital Quality: Is the Association Different for Younger Versus Older Cohorts?." Research on Aging 30(6):623-648.
Yu, X. and D.G. Abler (2009). "The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(1):57-69.
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