Poster Session 6: Applied Demography, Methods, Migration, Labor and Education, Gender, and Race and Ethnicity

Friday, Apr 2 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Constitution Ballroom 2nd Floor

1.	Health Based Population Forecasting: Analysis of the Effects of Smoking, Obesity, and Alcohol Consumption  •   Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Julia Kravchenko, Duke University

2.	Spatial Patterns of Boston's Ethnic Populations, 2000  •   James P. Allen, California State University, Northridge; Eugene Turner, California State University, Northridge

3.	The 2000 Census Data on Disability: Policy Implications for Rhode Island  •   Roger Avery, Brown University; Dennis Hogan, Brown University

4.	Managing the Balancing Act: Administrative Records and the U.S. Census Bureau  •   Lisa M. Blumerman, U.S. Census Bureau; Ronald C. Prevost, U.S. Census Bureau; Carrie R. Simon, U.S. Census Bureau

5.	Population and Employment Forecast for 2030 by Quarter Section in Chicago: Methodology  •   Marie V. Bousfield, City of Chicago, Department of Planning and Development

6.	Residential Segregation among Nicaraguan Immigrants in Costa Rica in 2000  •   Gilbert Brenes, University of Wisconsin at Madison

7.	Barriers to Marital Assimilation: Hispanic Intermarriage in U.S. Cities  •   J. Brian Brown, Ohio State University

8.	Decomposition of Compositional Effects: Explicating Covariance in Demography Analysis  •   Vladimir Canudas Romo, Pennsylvania State University; James W. Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

10.	Multiple-Race Identification and the Wages of Black Workers  •   Philip N. Cohen, University of California, Irvine

11.	Migration, Population Mixing, and Mortality: A Spatial Analysis  •   Ronald E. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Wesley James, Mississippi State University; Carol Campbell, Mississippi State University

12.	The Association between Family Income and Educational Attainment in Middle Childhood  •   Sally C. Curtin, University of Maryland; Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland

13.	Earnings Inequality and the Gender Wage Gap in U.S. Metropolitan Areas  •   Zsuzsa Daczo, University of Maryland

14.	Status of Women of Migrants  •   Kalyanashish Das, CARE

15.	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Canada and the United States Set the Table for International Migration Data  •   Cynthia J. Davis, U.S. Census Bureau; Marie-France Germain, Statistics Canada; Éric Caron-Malenfant, Statistics Canada

16.	Not in My Back Yard -- but Where? Neighborhood Locations of Group Quarters Institutions  •   Nancy A. Denton, University at Albany, State University of New York

17.	The Search for Water in Urban Sahelian Area. Analysis of Original Transitions: Access and Loss of Running Water in Ouagadougou  •   Stephanie Dos Santos Beauchamp, Université de Montréal

18.	Educational Outcomes of Academically Promising Latino Students  •   Anne K. Driscoll, University of California, Davis

19.	How Linguistic Skills Mediate the Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Reading and Math Achievement in the Elementary Grades  •   Rachel E. Durham, Pennsylvania State University; George Farkas, Pennsylvania State University; Carol Scheffner Hammer, Pennsylvania State University

20.	Reconsidering the Spatial Assimilation Model for Mexican Americans: What Is the Effect of Regional Patterns of Cohort Succession?  •   Karl Eschbach, University of Texas Medical Branch; Kushang V. Patel, University of Texas Medical Branch

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Mixed Logistic Regressions with Covariate Density Defined Components: Applications to Birth Outcomes  •   Timothy B. Gage, University at Albany, State University of New York; Michael Bauer, University at Albany, State University of New York; Fu Fang, University at Albany, State University of New York; Howard Stratton, University at Albany, State University of New York

22.	Was It Worth the Effort? Did Changing Election Methods Make a Difference? Demography, Race, and Ethnicity in the Political Arena  •   Jeanne Gobalet, Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc.

24.	Indigenous Populations and Land Use in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon  •   Clark L. Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jason Bremner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Flora Lu Holt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

25.	The Role of Gender in Asian American-White Wage Differences  •   Emily Greenman, University of Michigan

26.	New Strategies in Estimating International Migration  •   Betsy Guzman, U.S. Census Bureau; Kevin Deardorff, U.S. Census Bureau; Alexa Kennedy-Puthoff, U.S. Census Bureau

27.	The Development of Culture within Latin American International Adoptees  •   Kellie J. Hagewen, Duke University; Rachel Hagewen, North Carolina State University

28.	Causes of Low Educational Attainment and an Early Transition to Adulthood in Guatemala: Ethnicity, Gender, or Poverty?  •   Kelly Hallman, Population Council

29.	Family Cohesion and Ethnic Communities: Chinese, Italian, and Mexican Households, 1990 and 2000  •   Ann H. Kim, Brown University; Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University

30.	Refugee Resettlement and City Revitalization: Prospects for Change in Utica, New York  •   Ellen Kraly, Colgate University

31.	Contraceptive Switching Behavior: An Application of Multistate Life Tables  •   Tzy-Mey (May) Kuo, Research Triangle Institute; Helen P. Koo, Research Triangle Institute

32.	Where Have All the Children Gone?  •   Shelley Lapkoff, Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc.; Pipi R. Diamond, Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc.

33.	Age and Race Data on Death Certificates for Older Asian Americans  •   Diane S. Lauderdale, University of Chicago; Bert Kestenbaum, U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)

34.	Immigration and Unemployment in the United States: A Multilevel Analysis  •   Jing Li, PRO-ED, Inc.; Isao Takei, Texas A&M University

35.	Sex Segregation in Fields of Doctorate Degrees in the United States, 1971-1998: A Methodological and Empirical Analysis Using Segregation Indices Describing Evenness  •   Su Li, Northwestern University

36.	The New Patterns of International Migration from China to the United States  •   Zai Liang, University at Albany, State University of New York; Guotu Zhuang, Xiamen University; Wenzhen Ye, Xiamen University

37.	Rethinking the Demography of Iraq: What Do We Think Today about What We Thought 12 Months Ago?  •   Thomas M. McDevitt, U.S. Census Bureau

38.	Clean Process Data Methodology -- Emerging Approaches in the Management and Preparation of Longitudinal Analysis Sets  •   James W. McNally, University of Michigan

39.	Census 2000 Profiles International Migrants in Massachusetts  •   Janin Menendez, U.S. Census Bureau; Joseph M. Costanzo, U.S. Census Bureau; Luke J. Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau

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The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth: A Survey of 12,500 Men and Women  •   William Mosher, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC; Joyce C. Abma, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC; Gladys M. Martinez, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC; Stephanie J. Willson, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC; Anjani Chandra, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

42.	The Impact of Illegal Immigration and Border Enforcement on Crime Rates along the U.S.-Mexico Border  •   Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Roberto Coronado, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

43.	Women's Empowerment and Fertility Decision-Making in Africa: Does the Presence of Inlaws Make a Difference?  •   Tom O. Owuor, Pennsylvania State University; Bina Gubhaju, Pennsylvania State University

44.	Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: A Select Review of Approaches and Methods  •   Mahendra Panda, Indian Council of Medical Research; Kanhu Ch. Satapathy, Indian Statistical Institute

45.	Empowering Women Saves Children's Lives: A Comparative Analysis  •   Sangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland

46.	The Effect of Climate on Migration: United States, 1995-2000  •   Dudley Poston, Texas A&M University; David Gotcher, Abilene Christian University; Yuan Gu, Texas A&M University

48.	The New Economics of Return Labor Migration: A Test on the Determinants of Return for Latin Americans in the U.S.  •   Fernando Riosmena, University of Pennsylvania

49.	Migrants Who Participate in the Labor Force in Puerto Rico: Its Demographic Characteristics and Segmented Participation in the Economy  •   Jenilda Rivera, University of Puerto Rico

50.	The International Database on Longevity (IDL)  •   Jean-Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); Cournil Amandine, Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer

51.	Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population and Population Eligible to Naturalize: 2002  •   Nancy Rytina, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

52.	Do Affirmative Action Policies Increase Educational Attainment? Examining the Effects of Caste Based Policies in India  •   Ankur Sarin, University of Chicago

53.	Households and Families in Six Race/Ethnic Groups: Issues for Surveys Identified in Qualitative Studies  •   Laurie Schwede, U.S. Census Bureau

54.	Using Qualitative Methods for Ex Post Analysis of Local Population Projections  •   Joachim Singelmann, Louisiana State University; Michael Irwin, Duquesne University; Jack Beggs, Louisiana State University

55.	Child Disability and Mothers' Labor Force Participation: A Study Using Matched 1993 NHIS and 1995 NSFG Data  •   Carrie E. Spearin, Brown University; Maryhelen D'Ottavi, Brown University; Jennifer M. Park, Harvard University

56.	Effects of Multiracial Identification on Students' Perception of Racism  •   Zongli Tang, Auburn University; Ann Marcus, Auburn University; Larry Mullins, Auburn University; Kimberly Brackett, Auburn University

57.	The Influence of Local Hispanic Population Share on White Anglos' Stereotypes of Hispanics, Views on Immigration, and Related Policy Opinions  •   Marylee C. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University; Jenna L. Aurand, Pennsylvania State University

58.	Population Density and Fertility  •   Maria Rita Testa, Austrian Academy of Sciences

59.	U.S. Commuting Zones for 2000  •   Charles Tolbert, Baylor University; Troy Blanchard, Mississippi State University; Alex Trouteaud, Baylor University

60.	The Effect of Foreign Investment on Income Inequality and Median Earnings in Mexico  •   Andres Villarreal, University of Texas at Austin

61.	A Non-Parametric Application for Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis Using Infant Mortality Rates  •   Ann Von Holle, University of Pennsylvania; Chirayath Suchindran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

62.	Biofuel Use and Fuelwood Collection Times in South Africa  •   Stephanie T. Waldhoff, University of Chicago

63.	Net Migration in Nonmetropolitan Counties in 1990-2000: Test of Explanations  •   Xiaodong Wang, Texas A&M University; Xiuhong You, Texas A&M University

64.	Temporal and Spatial Variation in Population Change within the U.S. Great Plains, 1900-2000  •   Katherine J. White, University of Wisconsin at Madison

65.	Racial/Ethnic Segregation and Immigrants  •   Jipan Xie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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