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Poster Session 1

Thursday, March 29
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Westside Salon 3-4
5th floor

Geography, migration, urbanization and neighborhoods

1.  Racial, Ethnic, and Nativity Differences in Cohabitation in the United States  •  Kate H. Choi, University of California, Los Angeles

2.  Monitoring Poverty and Vulnerability in an Urban African Setting: Lessons from the Ouagadougou Demographic Surveillance System  •  Jean-François Kobiané, Université de Ouagadougou; Abdramane Soura, Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) and Université de Ouagadougou; Idrissa Ouili, Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) and Université de Ouagadougou

3.  Poverty Concentration and Public Housing Programs  •  Bongoh Kye, University of California, Los Angeles

4.  Finding Friends in the New Country: Social Interaction of Older Immigrants to Canada  •  Margaret Michalowski, Statistics Canada; Helene Maheux, Statistics Canada

5.  Do Healthier Mexicans Migrate to the United States? New Findings from the Mexican Family Life Survey  •  Luis Rubalcava, University of California, Los Angeles and Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Graciela M. Teruel, University of California, Los Angeles and Universidad Iberoamericana; Duncan Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles

6.  Explaining the Hispanic Paradox: An Examination of the Out-Migration Effect on the Health Composition of the Mexican Immigration Population  •  Weiwei Zhang, Brown University

Mortality, adult health, aging and biology

7.  Undiagnosed Cases and the ‘Real’ Health Burden of Diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean  •  Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

8.  Maternal and Infant Health Services Assessment in a Slum Resettlement Colony of Delhi  •  Vasudha Dhingra, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Rini Joshi, Indian Institute of Health Management (IIHMR); Faraz Naqvi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Brian Chin, Harvard University

9.  Physical Markers at Young Age and Survival to 100: A Study of a New Historical Data Resource (The U.S. WWI Draft Cards)  •  Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

10.  Family History of Chronic Disease and Participation in Healthy Behaviours  •  Godfrey A. Gibbison, Georgia Southern University; Douglas Johnson, Georgia Southern University

11.  Educational and Gender Differences in the Disability-Free Life Expectancy for the Elderly: Brazil, 1998 and 2003  •  Gilvan R. Guedes, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional(CEDEPLAR) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Mirela C.S. Camargos, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional(CEDEPLAR) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Carla J. Machado, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional(CEDEPLAR) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

12.  'Locusts Are Now Our Beef': Adult Mortality and Household Dietary Use of Local Natural Resources in Rural South Africa  •  Lori M. Hunter, University of Colorado at Boulder; Wayne Twine, University of the Witwatersrand; Laura Patterson, University of Colorado at Boulder

13.  Reducing Bias in Diagnostic Tests of Health Measures with the Propensity Score Method  •  Xian Liu, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Charles Engel, Jr., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Kristie Gore, Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Michael Freed, Walter Reed Army Medical Center

14.  What Do We Know about Transitions into and out of Obesity?  •  Yuriy Pylypchuk, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS; Barbara Schone, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS

15.  Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality in Nepal: Revisiting the Role of the Mother-in-Law  •  Kiran Regmi, Bharatpur Hospital; Prakash Adhikari, Bharatpur Hospital

16.  HIV/AIDS Mortality and Household Composition in Rural South Africa  •  Enid Schatz, University of Missouri at Columbia; Sangeetha Madhavan, Tulane University

17.  Racial Differences in Health Care: Evidence from the Veterans Health Administration  •  Emilia Simeonova, Columbia University

18.  Resources, Race, and Health: Spatial Patterning of General and Race-Specific Mortality in the United States  •  P. Johnelle Smith, University of Texas at San Antonio; Corey S. Sparks, Pennsylvania State University

19.  Differential Mortality between the Sexes: An Inevitable Pattern in the Middle Ages?  •  Svenja Weise, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Children, including child health, youth and parents

20.  The Effect of Gender Norms on Adolescents’ Perception and Attitude to Sexual and Reproductive Health: The Case of the Kassena-Nankana District  •  Matilda Aberese Ako, Navrongo Health Research Centre; Cornelius Y. Debpuur, Navrongo Health Research Centre; Martin Adjuik, Navrongo Health Research Centre; Ernest Kayomse, Navrongo Health Research Centre; Fabian S. Achana, Navrongo Health Research Centre; Ane Adondiwo, Navrongo Health Research Centre; Gifty Apiung, Navrongo Health Research Centre

21.  Childhood Stunting and Schooling Attainment of Filipino Young Adults  •  Isabelita Bas, University of San Carlos

22.  Trends and Determinants of Maternal Health Indicators in Menya Governorate, Egypt  •  Noha El- Ghazaly, El- Zanaty & Associates; Dominique Meekers, Tulane University

23.  Body, Perception and Risk: Understanding Sexual Development among Out-of-School Rural Adolescents in India  •  R.S. Goyal, Indian Institute of Health Management (IIHMR); Suvakanta N. Swain, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

24.  What Explains the Reductions in Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh?  •  Lauren Hale, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY); Julie DaVanzo, RAND; Mizanur Rahman, Pathfinder International; Abdur Razzaque, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

25.  Unmarried Fathers across the Transition to Separation: Individual and Relational Influences on Involvement and Coparenting  •  Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott, Pennsylvania State University

26.  Effects of Lunar Calendar Use on Marriage and Fertility Decisions of Youth in South Korea  •  Myungho Paik, University of Texas at Austin; Heeju Shin, University of Texas at Austin

27.  Good Parenting: Do Younger Parents Learn from Their Mothers?  •  Diane Patel, Ohio State University; Jamie L. Lynch, Ohio State University; Frank Mott, Ohio State University

28.  Family Instability and Parent-Child Relationship Quality  •  Katherine C. Stamps, Pennsylvania State University

29.  Changes in Risk Behavior Profiles from Adolescence to Young Adulthood  •  Punita Sunder, University of Texas Medical Branch; Laura Rudkin, University of Texas Medical Branch

30.  Beyond Parental Educational Attainment: How Parents' High School Experiences and Grandparents' Educational Attainment Affect Young Children’s Test Performance  •  Kristin E. Turney, University of Pennsylvania

31.  The Interplay among Family and Community Factors in Predicting the Depression of Chinese Adolescents: The Significant Role of Social Capital  •  Qiaobing Wu, University of Southern California

Labor force, education, inequality, and policy

32.  Mothers, Wives and Workers: The Changing Roles of American Women, 1870 – 1930  •  Tomas Cvrcek, Vanderbilt University

33.  Household Relocation through Buyouts after Natural Disasters: An Eastern North Carolina Case Study after Hurricane Floyd (1999)  •  Danny de Vries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; James Fraser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

34.  Public Transfer Accounts by Age and Education Level, U.S., 1964-2004: A Look at Inequality and the Public Sector  •  Tim Miller, University of California, Berkeley; Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College (CUNY)

35.  Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics: A Comparison of U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Households  •  Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Dimitris Georgarakos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Methods and applied demography

36.  The Contribution of Demographic Surveillance Systems: An Indepth Bibliometric Analysis of Demographic Surveillance System Publications from Developing Countries  •  Amanda Brosius, Swiss Tropical Institute; Don deSavigny, Swiss Tropical Institute; James F. Phillips, Population Council; Osman Sankoh, INDEPTH Network; Fred Binka, University of Ghana

37.  Modeling Digit Preference by Penalized Composite Link Models  •  Carlo G. Camarda, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Paul H. Eilers, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC); Jutta Gampe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

38.  An Evaluation of Texas Population Estimates and Projections Program’s Population Estimates and Projections for 2000  •  Nazrul Hoque, University of Texas at San Antonio

39.  The Parity and Factor Strata of Fertility Decline: Layer Decomposition Analysis of Reproductive Life Course Transition in Japan  •  Ryuichi Kaneko, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan

40.  Non-Traditional Approach to Measuring Maternal Mortality: Using Handheld Technology in Sampling at Services Sites in Markets (SSS-M)  •  Ouedraogo Moctar, IMMPACT Project (Centre Muraz); Karen Witten, IMMPACT Project (University of Aberdeen); Jacqueline Bell, University of Aberdeen; Wendy J. Graham, University of Aberdeen; Nicolas Meda, Centre Muraz; Sennen Hounton, IMMPACT Project (Centre Muraz); Issiaka Sombie, IMMPACT Project (Centre Muraz)

Fertility, family planning and sexual behavior

41.  Stalled Fertility Decline in Egypt: A Multilevel Analysis  •  Elena Ambrosetti, Università La Sapienza

42.  Skills, Schooling, and Fertility in Ghana: Do Adult Literacy Programs Matter?  •  Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University

43.  Socio-Demographic Determinants of Reproductive Tract Infection and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour in Rural Indian Women  •  Ramesh Chellan, Jawaharlal Nehru University

44.  Intercultural Marriage and Its Impact on Fertility in Taiwan  •  Yu-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University

45.  Couples’ Employment Careers and Timing of Childbearing  •  Paola Di Giulio, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

46.  Local Variation in the One-Child Policy and Its Determinants: 1989-2000  •  Shige Song, University of California, Los Angeles

47.  Union Instability as an Engine of Fertility? A Micro-Simulation Model for France  •  Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Martin Spielauer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Maria E. Winkler-Dworak, Vienna Institute of Demography

Family, marriage, households and unions

48.  Differences in Labor Market Behavior among Married and Cohabiting Individuals across Gender: An Analysis of European Union Countries  •  Alicia Adsera, Princeton University

49.  The Context of Psychological Well-Being after Retirement: Do His, Her, and Their Perceptions of Marital Quality Matter?  •  Kathryn Coursolle, University of California, Los Angeles

50.  Too Poor to Marry? A Cross-National Comparison of the SES Gradient in Marriage and Cohabitation  •  Joshua R. Goldstein, Princeton University; Catherine T. Kenney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

51.  Empowering Women or Involving Men? Couple and Provider Perceptions of Couple Services  •  Rebecka I. Lundgren, Georgetown University; Suzanne Schweikert; Katie Lavoie, Georgetown University

52.  Race Differences in Union Transitions among Cohabitors: The Role of Relationship Quality  •  Lauren Rinelli, Bowling Green State University

53.  Recent Trends in First Partnership in Russia: Marriage or Cohabitation?  •  Sergei Zakharov, Russian Academy of Sciences

Gender, race/ethnicity, religion

54.  Language of Interview and Self-Rated Health in a Sample of Mothers  •  Maren Andrea Jimenez, University of Texas at Austin; Xiuhong You, University of Texas at Austin; Yolanda C. Padilla, University of Texas at Austin

55.  The New Emerging Black Middle Class: The Love Jones Cohort  •  Kris Marsh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Philip N. Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lynne M. Casper, University of Southern California

56.  Understanding Gender Differences in HIV-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in Zambia  •  Andrea Plautz, Tulane University; Elizabeth Nauman, Tulane University

57.  Pan Ethnic Latino Enclaves  •  Juan O. Sandoval, Northwestern University; Bienvenido Ruiz, Northwestern University

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