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Poster Session 5

Friday, March 30
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Westside Salon 3-4
5th floor

Geography, migration, urbanization and neighborhoods

1.  Exploratory Study of the New Migration Stream from the Former Soviet Union to Ireland  •  Sofya Aptekar, Princeton University

2.  Labor Adaptation of the Internally Displaced Population  •  Maria Aysa, Florida International University

3.  Refugee Transition to Legal Permanent Resident Status: Characteristics and Timing  •  Kelly J. Jefferys, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); John F. Simanski, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

4.  Dynamics of Internal Migration Determinants for American Jews, 1985-1990 and 1995-2000  •  Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Sidney Goldstein, Brown University

5.  International Migration, Regional Variation, and Human Capital Formation in Mexico  •  Fernando Riosmena, University of Wisconsin at Madison

6.  Urbanization in India and China: Interpreting the UN Projections  •  Sergei Scherbov, Vienna Institute of Demography

7.  Household Versus Neighborhood Socio-Economic Status and Their Effects on Adolescent Health in Urban Johannesburg and Soweto: What Can Neighborhood Members Tell Us?  •  Zoe A. Sheppard, Loughborough University; Paula Griffiths, Loughborough University; Shane Norris, University of the Witwatersrand; John M. Pettifor, University of the Witwatersrand and Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital; Noel Cameron, Loughborough University

Mortality, adult health, aging and biology

8.  The Heritability of Psychological Resiliency  •  Jason D. Boardman, University of Colorado at Boulder; Casey Blalock, University of Colorado at Boulder

9.  Dried Blood Spot Collection and Elution Procedures for Measurement of Retinol Binding Protein: A Biomarker of Vitamin A Status for Field Research  •  Eleanor Brindle, University of Washington; Masako Fujita, University of Washington; Dean Garrett, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH); Jonathan Gorstein, University of Washington; Bettina Shell-Duncan, University of Washington; Kathleen A. O'Connor, University of Washington

10.  Access to Antenatal Care Services in Public and Private Sectors and Service Utilization in Vietnam  •  Mai Do, Tulane University

11.  The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Addressing Public Health in Post-Conflict Situations: A Case Study from the Democratic Republic of Congo  •  Jessica L.W. Flannery, Emory University

12.  SES, Stress, Biomarkers, and Taiwan  •  Omer Gersten, University of California, Berkeley; Tom Boyce, University of British Columbia; Paola Timiras, University of California, Berkeley

13.  Prevalence of Contraindications to Oral Contraceptives and Efficacy of a Self-Screening Instrument in a Predominantly Hispanic Sample  •  Daniel Grossman, Ibis Reproductive Health; Leticia E. Fernandez, University of Texas at El Paso; Kristine Hopkins, University of Texas at Austin; Jon Amastae, University of Texas at El Paso; Kari White, University of Texas at Austin; Sandra G. Garcia, Population Council

14.  Centenarians in the United States: Information from Census 2000  •  Karen Humes, U.S. Census Bureau; Victoria Velkoff, U.S. Census Bureau

15.  Quality of Maternal Health Care and Its Impact on Utilization of Services in India: An Assessment  •  Ram Manohar Mishra, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

16.  Fatal Lockup: An Examination of Prison and Parole Mortality in United States’ State Correctional System  •  Evelyn J. Patterson, University of Pennsylvania

17.  Social Disparities in Overweight and Obesity among Nearly Elderly and Elderly People in Taiwan  •  Zhihong Sa, University of Maryland; Ulla M. Larsen, University of Maryland

18.  Where Weight Waxes and Wanes: Spatial Variation in Adult Body Mass Index  •  Ken R. Smith, University of Utah; Barbara Brown, University of Utah; Jessie Fan, University of Utah; Cathleen Zick, University of Utah; Miller Harvey, University of Utah

19.  Health and Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of the ECHP Data  •  Daniele Spizzichino, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

20.  Religious Teachings and Influences on the ABCs of HIV Prevention  •  Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Texas at Austin

Children, including child health, youth and parents

21.  Immigrant Children and Overweight: Could Maternal Employment Be a Contributing Factor?  •  Elizabeth H. Baker, Bowling Green State University; Kelly Balistreri, Bowling Green State University

22.  Do Household Economic Shocks Influence Sexual Behavior Choices? Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study  •  Taryn Dinkelman, University of Michigan; Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town

23.  All for One and One for All? Women’s Relative Power and Maternal-Child Health in Haiti  •  Jennifer Toller Erausquin, University of California, Los Angeles

24.  Contestation and Compliance: Adolescent Girls’ Attitudes toward Domestic Violence in Ghana  •  Ashley E. Frost, Pennsylvania State University

25.  The Influence of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Low Birth Weight on Child Academic Achievement  •  Bridget J. Goosby, University of Michigan; Jacob E. Cheadle, University of Michigan

26.  The Multiple Contexts of Food Insecurity: Evaluating the Impact on Child Energy Balance  •  Lori Kowaleski-Jones, University of Utah

27.  Physical Dating Victimization among Female College Students in Chile: Prevalence and Risk Factors  •  Jocelyn Lehrer, University of California, San Francisco; Vivian Lehrer, Urban Justice Center; Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago; Zhenxiang Zhao, University of Illinois at Chicago

28.  Sexual Coercion from Male Adolescent Perspectives: Evidences from a Qualitative Study in Buenos Aires  •  Hernan M. Manzelli, University of Texas at Austin

29.  Preschool Child Care Arrangements in China  •  Yi Pan, University of California, Los Angeles

30.  Neighborhood Stress Effects on Changes in Adolescent Mental Health  •  Karen A. Snedker, Seattle Pacific University; Jerald Herting, University of Washington; Emily C. Walton, University of Washington

31.  Paternal Childcare in the Early Years in the U.K.: Determinants and Consequences for the School Readiness of Girls and Boys  •  Elizabeth Washbrook, University of Bristol

32.  Does School Education Reduce Childhood Obesity?  •  Ning Zhang, Cornell University

Labor force, education, inequality, and policy

33.  Redevelopment and Integration in the Rust Belt  •  Michael Bader, University of Michigan

34.  Continuity and Change of the Transition from School to Work of Russian Men and Women, 1966 to 2005  •  Christoph Buehler, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Dirk Konietzka, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

35.  Graduation Rates by Type of First College Attended  •  Anne K. Driscoll, University of California, Davis

36.  Missed Days from Work and Opportunity Costs for Obtaining an Abortion among Cambodian Women: A Case Study  •  Rukmini Potdar, Ipas; Tamara Fetters, Ipas

37.  When Home Becomes Work: Measuring Home-Based Work Measures in the 2004 ATUS and the May 2004 CPS Work Schedules Supplement  •  Sara Raley, University of Maryland; Vanessa Wight, University of Maryland

38.  The Impact of Work Characteristics on Fertility Intentions  •  Karina M. Shreffler, Pennsylvania State University

39.  Academic Outcomes of Youth in “Non-Traditional" Two-Parent Families: The Effects of Immigrant Status  •  Kathryn H. Tillman, Florida State University; Ursula Keller, Florida State University

Methods and applied demography

40.  The Hazards of Transforming Infant Mortality with Logs: The General Pattern of 20th Century Infant Mortality Decline in 22 Countries  •  David Bishai, Johns Hopkins University; Marjorie Opuni-Akuamoa, Johns Hopkins University

41.  Measuring Quantum and Tempo of Vital Events by Two-Dimensional Cohort Life Table Functions  •  Kiyosi Hirosima, Shimane University

42.  Estimation of the Life Expectancy at Birth for the Non-Aboriginal Population in the Territories Combined in Canada, 2002-2004  •  Ravi B.P. Verma, Statistics Canada

Fertility, family planning and sexual behavior

43.  Evidence for Stopping Behavior, Not Delayed Reproduction, as the Driving Force of Fertility Transition among Lehrerleut Hutterites of Montana  •  Kimber Haddix McKay, University of Montana; Apryle Pickering, University of Montana

44.  Birth Prevention Behavior among Mothers of Children with Disabilities  •  Maryhelen D. MacInnes, Michigan State University

45.  The Personal is More Political: Abortion Attitudes in 1984 and 2004  •  Katherine Mathews, Pomona College; Jill Grigsby, Pomona College

46.  Factors Affecting Kenyan Adolescents' Childbearing Desires  •  Andrew Muriuki, University of Missouri at Columbia; Marjorie Sable, University of Missouri at Columbia

47.  Social Group Membership Associated with Accurate Abortion Knowledge among Women in Rural Malawi  •  Valerie A. Paz Soldan, Tulane University

48.  Causes of Unmet Need for Contraception in the Developing World  •  Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute; Rubina Hussain, Guttmacher Institute

49.  Preference for Number and Sex of Children and Compliance with Birth Control Policy in Rural China  •  Yue Zhuo, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)

Family, marriage, households and unions

50.  Endogamy of Foreign-Born Population in Spain: Individual and Structural Factors  •  Clara Cortina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Albert Esteve, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Andreu Domingo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Anna Cabré, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

51.  Does Immigration Status Influence Relationship Formation among Fragile Families?  •  Cassandra J. Dorius, Pennsylvania State University

52.  Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China from 1970 to 2001  •  Hongyun Han, University of Wisconsin at Madison

53.  Change in Opportunities for Meeting a Partner and the Marriage Decline in Japan  •  Miho Iwasawa, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan; Fusami Mita, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan

Gender, race/ethnicity, religion

54.  African American Residential Mobility: An Analysis of Individual and Contextual Factors  •  Cecily Darden Adams, University of Maryland

55.  Intergenerational Transfer of Educational Attainment among Immigrant Families: Findings from the Los Angeles Family & Neighborhood Study  •  Amy Carroll Scott, University of California, Los Angeles

56.  Examining the Gender Earnings Gap: Occupational Differences and the Life Course  •  Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau; Barbara Downs, U.S. Census Bureau

57.  Examining and Explaining Racial/Ethnic Variation in the Gender Division of Household Labor  •  Bijou R. Hunt, University of Maryland

58.  Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, Family-Related Attitudes, and Contraceptive Use in the United States, 2002  •  William D. Mosher, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC; Jo Jones, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

59.  Men’s Involvement in Maternal Care during Pregnancy and Child Birth in Rural Maharashtra  •  Abhishek Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Faujdar Ram, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

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