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Tonya Allen
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PRInformation Spring 1998 - Focus on Graduate Training at PRI
Contents
- Note from the Director
- Focus on Training
- Student News
- Faculty Focus
- Staff News
- Articles of Interest
- New External Research Funding at PRI
- Selected Publications
The multidisciplinary population training at Penn State University reflects the diverse academic programs and faculty associated with the Population Research Institute. This emphasis, unlike many other population training programs around the country, has been institutionalized through a dual-title degree program in Demography. The current program, directed by Dr. Gordon De Jong, enrolls fifty-two in-residence graduate students. Students can specialize in population studies, while earning academic degrees in Demography and any one of six social science disciplines (i.e., Agricultural Economics, Anthropology, Economics, Human Development and Family Studies, Rural Sociology, and Sociology). In addition, thirteen Ph.D. students from other disciplines are pursuing an official doctoral minor in Demography.
This issue of PRInformation focuses on population training at Penn State University. Our training program has a rather unique niche in the population field. We are pleased to support a tradition of education "outreach" that has long been part of Penn State University's mission as one of the nation's premier land grant institutions. Not surprisingly, ours is one of the only training programs with a strong emphasis in the agricultural sciences -- rural population and economic development, population and environment, and natural resources. Like many other centers, our faculty are concerned with basic science. But, unlike most, our students also have many training and research opportunities in applied research, such as population projections, community and economic development, extension programs, and child interventions. The land grant mission is also reflected in the fact that many of our students are first-generation college graduates and have gone on to successful careers in academia, government, and the private sector.
Our training program is large enough to form a critical mass, but small enough to provide graduate students with unusual opportunities to work closely with the training faculty on research projects. All of our students currently receive financial assistance through research assistantships and fellowships provided by the University, research grants or contracts, and Foundations (e.g., Mellon Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and the National Science Foundation). The pay-off for the students has been large: most are actively involved as authors or co-authors on research papers. At this year's annual meetings of the Population Association of America, twelve students were listed as participants on the program. Our students also manage their own budget to sponsor and organize an annual demographic methods workshop each summer that brings nationally prominent population scholars to Penn State. This year's workshop focuses on GIS applications in demography. An annual Family Planning Workshop is also available to students, as is the annual Penn State National Family Symposium.
We are proud of our training program in the Population Research Institute and our successful graduates. Our students come with highly diverse backgrounds from a disciplinary perspective. But our dual-title graduate degree program in Demography brings faculty and students together in a way that benefits each of us and the larger community of demographers. This issue of PRInformationhighlights some of the activities and accomplishments of the program.
Daniel T. Lichter
Director
A Brief History of Population Training at Penn State
Population training at Penn State began in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the formation of a coordinated graduate instruction program which permitted students to pursue a Ph.D. with a population area specialization. The founders of this program were Dr. Wilbur Zelinsky (geography), Dr. Warren C. Robinson (economics), Dr. Gordon F. De Jong (sociology) and Dr. Paul T. Baker (anthropology), who formed a "population group." In 1972, the population research and instruction group, bolstered by faculty from the department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, was officially established as the Population Issues Research Center within the university's Intercollege Research Programs. Research and training topics at PIRC included migration and population redistribution, fertility, population and development, population policy, labor force demography, rural demographic trends, and human population adaptation.
In 1987, a dual-title graduate program in Demography was established, and Dr. Gordon F. De Jong appointed program director. The successful application for a NICHD P-30 research grant in 1991 enabled PIRC to become an independent Population Research Institute.
Departments Supporting Population Training
The graduate program in Demography is interdisciplinary in nature and is strongly marked by the institute's training philosophy, which holds that "research and policy questions in demography are best pursued through an integration of substantive knowledge and methods for analyzing population structure and dynamics with existing and emerging paradigms in the disciplines of sociology, developmental psychology, economics, and cultural and biological anthropology." Since 1960, 105 pre-doctoral students have earned one of the six Ph.D. degrees offered through the graduate program in Demography: Sociology and Demography; Anthropology and Demography; Economics and Demography; Human Development & Family Studies and Demography; Rural Sociology and Demography; and Agricultural Economics and Demography. While maintaining professional identification with their core discipline, students in the dual degree program have the opportunity to garner expertise and skills in the theory, methodology, and policy implications of demography.
Predoctoral students in the dual degree program have been funded by institutional training grants PRI has received from the Hewlett Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Currently sixty-six predoctoral students are officially enrolled in the Graduate Program in Demography.
Recent Appointments
Stephanie Bohon (Ph.D., 1998, Demography and Sociology); assistant professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Ohio University.
Susan Brown (Ph.D., 1998, Demography and Sociology); assistant professor of sociology at Bowling Green University.
Melonie Heron (Ph.D., 1998, Demography and Sociology); assistant professor of sociology at Florida State University.
Padma Karunaratne; the World Bank, long-term consultant/evaluation specialist. She is attached to the Evaluation Unit of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, and is engaged primarily in training evaluation work.
Julie Kraut (Ph.D., 1998, Demography and Economics); two-year postdoctoral fellowship, the Center for Disease Control.
Domingo Pinero (Ph.D., 1998, Demography and Nutrition); postdoctoral fellowship, Hershey Medical School.
Mrutyunjay Sarangi (Ph.D., 1998, Demography and Rural Sociology); government of India.
Student Awards
Frank Avenilla and Tasha Snyder won second place in the Penn State Graduate Research Exhibition on March 28 for their poster entitled "Family and Community Connections: Social Capital Availability and the Development of Human Capital in Adolescent Single Mother Families."
Alexander Kofitse received a dissertation fellowship from the Population Council for 1998-1999. His dissertation is entitled "Birth Spacing and Household Poverty in Ghana: An Economic Analysis."
Tasha Snyder (with Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody) received an award for their PAA poster session, "Nonmarital Childbearing and Coresidence with Parents: Historical Trends and Demographic Factors."
Students Present Research at PAA Meetings
Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew, "Household Structure, Household Economic Resources and Child Well-Being in Trinidad and Tobago"
Netra Chhetri (with Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Tribhuvan University, and Dr. Stephen A. Matthews), "Anthropogenic Impacts on Flora Biodiversity in the Forests and Common Land of Chitwan, Nepal"
Kishor Gajurel, "The Spatial and Temporal Variation of Family Planning Services in the Chitwan District, Nepal" (poster)
Erica Gardner (with Dr. Daniel Lichter, Dr. Diane McLaughlin, and Heidi Melz), "Nonmetropolitan and Small-Town Population Estimates from the American Community Survey"
Annie Georges, "Does Fertility Timing Affect Poverty: A Dynamic Analysis" (poster)
Melonie Heron, "The Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap Revisited: An Application of Relative Distribution Methods"
Michelle Inkley, "Education for All: A Latin American Experience"
Padma Karunaratne, "Understanding Fertility Behavior Using Qualitative Approaches: Evidence from Rural Sri Lanka"
Muyiwa Oladosu (with Dr. Gretchen Cornwell), "A Systematic Model for Evaluating Unmet Need for Knowledge on Modern Contraception: Analysis of Uganda DHS Data for Men and Women"
Mrutyunjay Sarangi, "Women's Empowerment and Participation in Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural India"
Tasha Snyder (with Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody), "Nonmarital Childbearing and Coresidence with Parents: Historical Trends and Demographic Factors" (PAA award-winning poster)
Other Conference Attendance
Rosario Garcia Calderon, Patricia Munoz, Rocio Flores, Silvana Vargas, and Jose Rodriguez attended the Comparative International Society of Education meetings in Buffalo, New York, March 18-21.
Erica Gardner attended the Census Bureau Conference in Washington, D.C., March 24-25.
Sheryl McCurdy attended the African Studies Association Meetings in Columbus, Ohio, November 13-16.
Jose Rodriguez attended the Red de Economia Social conference December 2-6 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Students Sponsor 5th Annual Summer Methodology Workshop on "GIS and Spatial Analysis"
The GIA Core, the Statistics Core and graduate students in Demography hosted the fifth annual summer methodology workshop in late May. The topic of the workshop was "GIS and Spatial Analysis." A one-day workshop focusing on papers of four invited speakers was followed by a three-day short course in GIS and spatial analysis presented by Dr. Luc Anselin.
Krysan Studies Racial Attitudes
Dr. Maria Krysan, assistant professor of sociology, joined PRI as an affiliate in 1996. Her research activities center on the study of racial attitudes, focusing on the connection between racial attitudes and residential segregation, and on trends in racial attitudes. She most recently examined the latter topic as co-author of the 1997 Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, Revised Edition (Harvard University Press). In some cases, these substantive interests are inextricably linked to methodological questions regarding the ways in which attitudinal information about this important area of social life is collected -- both in terms of specific survey questions asked and the manner in which those questions are presented.
As part of Dr. Krysan's current work on the connection between racial attitudes and residential segregation, she is co-principal investigator of an NSF project (with Dr. Reynolds Farley, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Dr. Elaine Fielding, University of Michigan) to produce a series of papers which make use of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. The researchers will move beyond the "Detroit model" and the "black/white model" that characterize much of the existing research on residential preferences to test models examining preferences in other metropolitan areas with very different social and racial histories, as well as additional racial/ethnic groups.
Jensen Fulbright in Norway
Dr. Leif Jensen, associate professor of rural sociology, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, spent the Fall 1997 semester in Norway, where he continued his project on children's work, schooling, and poverty in Latin America (which is being conducted in collaboration with PRI associates Dr. David Post and Dr. David Abler). Dr. Jensen was based at the University of Bergen and was affiliated there with the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP). CROP manages a world-wide network of researchers and experts on poverty and thereby provides an arena for interdisciplinary and comparative research on poverty in developed and developing countries. In addition to conducting and presenting his research to faculty and students at the University of Bergen, Dr. Jensen also gave presentations in Hamar and Trondheim.
Krysan Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage
Dr. Maria Krysan, assistant professor of sociology, will spend the 1998-1999 academic year at the Russell Sage Foundation as a Visiting Scholar, working on a project entitled "Racial Residential Preferences: What's Behind Them?" She will use a rich set of open-ended survey data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to fill the knowledge gap regarding what underlies the racial residential preferences of blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos.
Mansfield Receives Alumni Teaching Fellow Award
Dr. Phyllis K. Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, has received the Alumni Teaching Fellow Award, which honors distinguished teaching and encourages teaching excellence. The award was established by the Penn State Alumni Association, the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate Student Association.
Shapiro Recipient of Faculty Associates Award
Dr. David Shapiro, professor of economics and women's studies, was one of forty-four Penn State faculty members to receive the first Faculty Associates Award, presented by Student Affairs to recognize faculty members for their outstanding involvement in programs and services for students.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Mark Hayward, professor of sociology, presented "The Race Gap in Chronic Disease: The Persistence of Social Disadvantage into Old Age" at the Tenth Meeting of the International Network on Health Expectancy (REVES-X) in Tokyo. Co-authors were E.M. Crimmins of the University of Southern California, and Yang Yu, PRI dual-degree graduate student in demography and sociology.
Dr. Darryl Holman, NICHD postdoctoral Fellow, and Dr. Kathleen O'Connor, NIA postdoctoral trainee, presented "Declining Fecundity with Age in Natural Fertility Populations" at the Workshop on Ovarian Ageing, November 13-15, 1997, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Dr. Alice James, associate professor, College of Liberal Arts, presented "Trends in Rural Population Decline on an Eastern Aegean Island" at the 17th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology held in Chania, Crete, August 25-29, 1997.
Dr. Leif Jensen, associate professor of rural sociology and 1997 Fulbright Scholar, presented "'Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...'? Poverty and Welfare Program Use Among Immigrants to the United States" at the Annual Meetings of The American Studies Association of Norway, Hamar, Norway, October, 1997; and "Recent Developments in Rural Sociology in the United States" at the Center for Rural Research, Trondheim, Norway, October, 1997.
Dr. Daniel Lichter, professor of sociology and director, Population Research Institute, gave a keynote address to the Conference on TAFN in Northeastern Pennsylvania: Issues of Work, Family and Community, on March 3, 1998 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His presentation was entitled "TAFN: The Basic Facts (And Will it Work?)."
Dr. Phyllis Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, as plenary speaker at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, April 2-5, 1998, delivered a presentation entitled "Sex, Lies and Menopause."
Dr. Martina Morris, associate professor of sociology and statistics, presented "Job Instability and Wage Inequality" at the conference on Changes in Job Stability and Job Security at the Russell Sage Foundation, February 27, 1998.
Research Leaves
Dr. Alan Booth, professor of sociology and human development, to develop a course on the topic of human social behavior and biology and commence analysis on a project on hormones, family relations and child development.
Dr. David J. Eggebeen, associate professor of human development and sociology, to conduct research on the role of fatherhood and its consequences for men.
Dr. Kenneth M. Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and professor of genetics, to gain first-hand experience and learn methods for analyzing complex DNA sequence data; and to conduct research on human genetic variation, its global distribution and its relevance to disease.
New PRI Associates in Biodemography
Dr. Eric H. Durbrow (Ph.D., 1993, Anthropology, University of Missouri), assistant professor of human development. Research interests: culture and child development; Caribbean, Amish, and Hutterite studies; behavioral ecology; comparative education; community change; computer analysis; and field methods.
Dr. Douglas Granger (Ph.D., 1990, Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles), assistant professor of biobehavioral health and human development and family studies, and director of the Behavioral Endocrinology Laboratory. Research interests: mechanisms and consequences of interactions between the central nervous and immune systems in animals and man; behavioral and cognitive correlates of children's adrenocortical reactivity to naturalistic psychosocial challenges; and the role of cytokines in the emergence of, and continuity in, atypical child development.
Dr. Phyllis K. Mansfield (Ph.D., Health Education, minor in Individual and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University), professor of women's studies and health education. Research interests: women's health issues; the politics of midlife pregnancy; the medicalization of menopause; women as consumers and providers in the health care system; the politics of reproduction; and the sexual politics of mental illness. Dr. Mansfield is a co-investigator (with Dr. James Wood as Principal Investigator) on the NIA-funded project "Biodemographic Models of Reproductive Aging."
Dr. Keith Whitfield (Ph.D., 1989, Psychology, Texas Tech University), assistant professor of biobehavioral health. Research interests: health and psychosocial factors; individual differences; behavioral genetics; and cognitive aging in African-Americans. Dr. Whitfield is Principal Investigator of a five year NIA-supported grant entitled "Health and Psychosocial Factors in Older Black Twins."
Ellen Copper has joined the Information Core as library assistant. Ms. Copper earned her M.L.S. from Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1974, and brings more than fifteen years experience as a librarian in the public school system.
Diane Mattern has joined the Administrative Core as accounting assistant. Her previous experience includes nine years at Penn State.
Tonya Allen, Information Core director, and Ellen Copper, library assistant, attended the APLIC-I conference in Chicago, March 30-April 1. APLIC-I is the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers - International.
Lisa Broniszewski, data archivist, attended the IASSIST/CSS 1998 Annual Conference on Global Access, Local Support: Social Science Computing in the Age of the World Wide Web, in
New Haven, Connecticut, May 19-22, 1998. IASSIST is the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology; CSS is the Social Science Computing Association.
Jeanne Spicer, manager of programming services, presented her paper "Delivering Geographic Information: For Those Who Can't Read a GMAP and Won't Stop to Ask for Directions" at the SAS Users Group International Conference March 19, 1998.
GIA Presents Training at PAA
Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, assistant professor of geography and director, Geographic Information Analysis core, Chris Calienes, and Jim Cameron, together with colleagues from the Carolina Population Center, led a pre-conference workshop for PAA members April 1 entitled "An Introduction to Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Demographic Research." The workshop provided attendees with a conceptual overview of Geographic Information Systems and their application to demographic research questions, addressing issues associated with the collection, integration, manipulation and analysis of both primary and secondary data sources in a Geographic Information System. Demonstrations of how GIS has been used in both domestic and international demographic research, emphasizing applications drawn from studies of health services accessibility and the integration of population and environmental processes, were provided.
Fall 1998 Family Symposium Focuses on Community Context
The Fall 1998 Family Symposium, Does it Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families, will be held November 5-6 at the Nittany Lion Inn, Penn State. Organized by Dr. Alan Booth and Dr. Ann C. Crouter, the symposium will focus on some of the mechanisms that may link community characteristics to the functioning of the families and individuals within them (e.g., community norms, economic opportunities, reference groups for assessing relative deprivation, and social support networks). Several speakers with applied expertise will review the state of the art in terms of policies and programs designed to strengthen communities and neighborhoods as settings for children, youth, and families. Lead speakers will include Dr. James P. Connell (Institute for Research and Reform in Education), Dr. Robert Sampson (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences), Dr. Greg Duncan (Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University), and Margaret Spenser (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania).
Massey and Raftery Receive 1998 Clifford C. Clogg Award
The Clifford C. Clogg award recognizes distinguished work in population statistics. It is given biennially by the Population Association of America and Penn State University in commemoration of the contributions of the late Clifford C. Clogg, who was a long-time PRI faculty member in Sociology and Statistics. The award was presented at the 1998 PAA meetings in Chicago. This year's co-recipients were Dr. Douglas Massey of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Adrian Raftery of the University of Washington.
Glick Receives Honorary Doctorate
Dr. Paul Glick, who contributed over forty years of public service as a demographer at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, received an honorary doctorate at the Spring 1998 commencement ceremony at Penn State University. Dr. Glick is widely regarded as the "father of family demography" and made important scholarly contributions to several fields, including family studies, public health, and population statistics.
NEW EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING AT PRI
Fertility and Family Formation
James Hagen (with Dr. William Axinn, professor of sociology) has been funded as a post-doctoral Fellow for two years under the Mellon Foundation's fellowship program in Anthropological Demography. Hagen's fellowship will focus on research and training on "Fertility and Family Formation" in Southeast Asia. Hagen is trained as an anthropologist from the University of Michigan and will join PRI as an associate during the summer of 1998. His training at PRI will feature course work in demography and fieldwork in Indonesia. He will work closely with PRI faculty associates to develop new data collection methods for studying marriage, fertility, and family in Indonesia. Along with collecting new field data, Hagen will write research papers and proposals for subsequent projects during his post-doctoral fellowship at PRI.
Marriage, Health and Retirement
Dr. Amy Pienta (Wayne State University) and Dr. Mark Hayward, professor of sociology, have received funding from the AARP Andrus Foundation to support a three-year project to investigate the ways in which chronic health conditions and family economic resources affect the joint retirement processes of husbands and wives within families. Previous studies have usually focused on the retirement process and disability status of individual workers without regard to the economic and health circumstances of other family members (especially spouses).
Mental Health Problems and Welfare Dependence: How Strong Are the Links?
Dr. Rukmalie Jayakody, assistant professor of human development & family studies, has received funding from NIMH for two years to analyze the role that mental health problems may play in preventing poor mothers' successful transitions from welfare to work. The study will be based on data from the 1994 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse. This is an especially important topic in light of current welfare reform aimed at promoting self-sufficiency among welfare-dependent mothers.
Fertility Decline in Bangladesh: Explaining Variability in Contraceptive Use
Dr. Patricia L. Johnson, associate professor of anthropology and women's studies, has received NSF funding for 1998-1999 to examine fertility decline in Bangladesh. Over the past twenty years, fertility in Bangladesh has declined almost by half. The attributed cause of this decline, increased use of contraceptives, is inconsistent with the persisting poverty and underdevelopment in Bangladesh, conditions which normally reduce the success of family planning programs. To investigate and explain this seeming contradiction, among the project's many goals will be to develop an "anthropology of reproduction" that focuses on fertility decisions as they are embedded and make sense in cultural context.
Life Course Determinants and Consequences of Grandparenting
Dr. Valarie King, assistant professor of sociology and human development & family studies, received the Brookdale Foundation Fellowship award for 1998-2000 to examine how the life course experiences and trajectories of adults influence their activities as grandparents, and how such activities are associated with late-life health. The award is designed to "provide young investigators with research opportunities in geriatrics and gerontology and to foster their growth as leaders in the field of aging."
Demographic Change and Diversity in Appalachia
Dr. Daniel Lichter, director, Population Research Institute and professor of sociology, Dr. Diane McLaughlin, assistant professor of rural sociology, and Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, assistant professor of geography and Geographic Information Analysis Core director, received funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission to perform a baseline demographic analysis of Appalachia. The policy study focuses on the changing and future labor force in the Appalachian region, population aging, the school-aged population, in-and-out migration of young adults, and community racial transformations. The final report will also discuss "capacity building" for future demographic analysis (e.g., identify datasets, measures, research templates, etc.) in the ARC.
Entering Adulthood: Poor, Socially Disadvantaged, and Resilient
Dr. Daniel Lichter, professor of sociology and director, Population Research Institute, and Dr. Michael Shanahan, assistant professor of human development & family studies, have received an NSF (sociology program) award for a 30-month project to evaluate the long-term effects of childhood economic deprivation and welfare dependence on "successful" early adult transitions (i.e., marriage-fertility sequencing, school-to-work transitions, etc.), adult achievement, and adult civic behavior.
Amato, P. and A. Booth (1997). Generation at Risk: Growing up in an Era of Family Upheaval. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Barber, J.S. and W.G. Axinn (1998). "Gender Role Attitudes and Marriage Timing among Young Women." The Sociological Quarterly 39(1):11-32.
Barber, J.S., G.P. Shivakoti, W.G. Axinn, and K. Gajurel (1997). "Sampling Strategies for Rural Settings: A Detailed Example from the Chitwan Valley Family Study, Nepal." Population Journal of Nepal 6(5):193-203.
Booth, A., A.C. Crouter, and N. Landale (1997). Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on U.S. Immigrants. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Booth, A. and A.C. Crouter (1998). Men in Families: When Do They Get Involved? What Difference Does It Make? New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Britt, C.L. (1997). "Reconsidering the Unemployment and Crime Relationship: Variation by Age Group and Historical Period." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 13(4):405-428.
Cohen M.N., K.A. O'Connor, M.E. Danforth, K.P. Jacobi, and C. Armstrong (1997). "Archaeology and Osteology of the Tipu Site." In S.L. Whittington and D.M. Reed (eds.), Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Ellies, D.L. and K.M. Weiss (1997). "Relationship between the Genomic Organization and the Overlapping Embryonic Expression Patterns of the Zebrafish dlx Genes." Genomics 45(3):580-590.
Firebaugh, G. (1997). "Development Sociology as We Approach the Twenty-First Century." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17:90-96.
Firebaugh, G. and D.L. Haynie (1997). "Using Repeated Surveys to Study Aging and Social Change." In M. Hardy (ed.), Studying Aging and Social Change: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Schuman, H., C. Steeh, L. Bobo, and M. Krysan (1997). Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Smith, S.M. and J.L. Findeis (1997). "Nonagricultural Micro-Enterprise Development among the Pennsylvania Amish: A New Phenomenon." Journal of Rural Studies 13(3):237-251.
Sukhatme, V.A. and D.G. Abler (1997). "Economists and Food Price Policy Distortions: The Case of India." Economic Development and Cultural Change 46(1):79-96.
Taylor, R.J., L.M. Chatters, M.B. Tucker, and R. Jayakody (1997). "Demographic Trends in African American Families." In R.J. Taylor, L.M. Chatters, and J.S. Jackson (eds.), Family Life in Black America. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
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Willis, S., K.W. Schaie, and M.D. Hayward (1997). Societal Mechanisms for Maintaining Competence in Old Age. New York: Springer.
Wilmoth, J., G.F. De Jong, and C. Himes (1997). "Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Living Arrangements among America's Hispanic and Asian Elderly Population." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17(9/10):57-82.
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PRInformation is published twice yearly by the Population Research Institute, Penn State. Please address correspondence to the editor, Tonya Allen, 601 Oswald Tower, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802-4900.
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