1996 PAA Award Winners
The first winner of the biennial Clifford C. Clogg Award, given in
recognition of "important and innovative contributions to the design,
collection, modeling, or analysis of population survey or census data,"
is Michael Hout of the University of California, Berkeley. His many
accomplishments include the classic text, Mobility Tables; his SAT (status,
autonomy, and training) model of the mobility table--a key methodological and
substantive advance in our understanding of intergenerational social mobility,
which he has successfully applied both to explanations of trend and of
black-white differences in mobility; and his forthcoming book with several
Berkeley colleagues which demolishes key empirical claims of Herrnstein and
Murray's Bell Curve. Amidst these contributions, Mike has created a vigorous
program of empirical training and research at Berkeley, he has strengthened
ties between the sociology and demography groups, and he now leads the
Berkeley Center for Survey Research.
Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University was given the Mindel
Sheps Award for Mathematical Demography. His work on the evolution of
populations in uncertain environments and on population forecasting proves
just how important it is to attend fully to random variation. In addition to
his important work on human populations, this scholar has made many
significant contributions to the study of non-human populations, the
interactions among populations, and the dynamics of infectious disease. He is
now among the leaders in the new field of biodemography.
Clea Sucoff received the Dorothy S. Thomas Award, for the best
dissertation: "Neighborhood Context and the Risk of Adolescent
Childbearing among Urban African American Women." Dr. Sucoff, who is a
postdoctoral fellow at RAND, received her Ph.D. in September 1995 from the
School of Public Health at the University of California Los Angeles. Her
thesis advisor was Dawn Upchurch.
The PAA Board awarded blue ribbons to selected posters at the annual meeting.
Three judges reviewed each poster session, using as their criteria the desire
to award effectiveness in various forms of presentation, understanding that
some individuals have access to more resources for presentations, but that the
ability to lay out a presentation in an attractive and comprehensible style,
to use an appropriate mix of text and figures, and to draw the reader into the
message is not dependent on the technical quality of the graphics used. The
winners are:
- Robin M. Blakely and Paul R. Voss, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, "Patterns and Predictors of Child Well-Being in the
U.S., 1985-1992." Elizabeth Cooksey, Ohio State University,
"The Effects of Family Structure on Parents' Time with Children."
- P.M. Eloundou-Enyegue and C.S. Stokes, Pennsylvania State
University, "On the Production of Child Quality."
- Mark Evan Edwards, University of Washington, "The Effect of
Education and Delayed Childbearing on Accelerated Rates of Early Maternal
Employment: 1965-1987."
- Diana Greene, Princeton University, "Micro-Simulation of the Costs
and Benefits of Contraceptives: Examination of the Economics of Contraception
for Teenagers."
- Kenneth D. Kochanek, National Center for Health Statistics, "The
Sex Differential in Life Expectancy: United States, 1980-1993."
- Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Cancian, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, "Life After Welfare: The
Economic Well-Being of Women and their Children following an Exit from
AFDC."
- Sonia Miner, University of Utah, and Peter Uhlenberg, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Does Marriage Matter Equally for Blacks
and Whites in Middle and Later Life?"
- Mark Schoenhals, University of Chicago, "The Downside of
Adolescent Employment: Parents, Peers, Beliefs and Behaviors."
- Kathryn A. Sowards, University of Michigan, "Medical Modernization
and the Changing Composition of Infectious Disease Infant Mortality."