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Poster Session 6

Friday, March 30
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Westside Salon 3-4
5th floor

Geography, migration, urbanization and neighborhoods

1.  Towards the Integration of Immigrants in Quebec’s Qualified Workforce: An Overview of the First Years following Their Arrival and the Effects of Selection Policies  •  Karine Bégin, Université de Montréal; Jean Renaud, Université de Montréal

2.  Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration to Spain  •  Maria del Mar Cebrian, Universidad de Salamanca

3.  Migration, Socio-Economic Status and Health Dynamics in Developing World Settings, Evidence from Demographic Surveillance Sites  •  Mark Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand; Kubaje Adazu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Ariel Nhacolo, Manhica Health Research Center (CISM)

4.  The Impact of Geographic Cost of Living Adjustments on School Lunch Eligibility  •  Douglas Geverdt, U.S. Census Bureau

5.  Does the Risk for Childhood Diabetes Vary by Community Area in Chicago?  •  Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint, University of Illinois at Chicago; Laurie Ruggiero, University of Illinois at Chicago; Rebecca Lipton, University of Chicago

6.  Population Pressure, Agricultural Resources and Environment: Temporal and Spatial Analysis in India  •  Dayanand G. Satihal, J.S.S. Institute of Economic Research; Pradeep Kumar Bhargava, Population Research Centre, Dharwad, India

7.  A Spatial Examination of the 'New West' in Inter-Mountain West Communities  •  Richelle Winkler, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Bill Buckingham, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Don Field, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Al Luloff, Pennsylvania State University; Rick Krannich, Utah State University

Mortality, adult health, aging and biology

8.  Sex and Ethnic Differences in Psychological Distress among Older Taiwanese Adults: Relationships over Time  •  Chi Chiao, National Cheng Kung University; Amanda Botticello, Rutgers University

9.  Mapping and Testing Spatial Clusters of Diabetes in the U.S.  •  Ronald E. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University; Wesley James, Mississippi State University; Troy Blanchard, Mississippi State University; Richard Thomas, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Louis Pol, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Erdenechimeg Eldev-Ochir, Mississippi State University

10.  Relation between Diabetes and Certain Morbidities in Elderly Population in Puerto Rico  •  Ana Luisa Davila, University of Puerto Rico; Alberto Garcia, University of Puerto Rico; Mary McEniry, University of Wisconsin at Madison

11.  Gender Empowerment in the Context of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic  •  Kim Deslandes, Université de Montréal; Simona Bignami, Université de Montréal

12.  Stress and the SES-Health Gradient: Getting under the Skin  •  Jennifer Dowd, University of Michigan; Allison Aiello, University of Michigan; Mary Haan, University of Michigan

13.  Contextual Factors of STI/HIV-Related Sexual Partnership in Urban North Carolina  •  Maria Khan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; David A. Wohl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Caroline Moseley, Guilford County Department of Public Health; Kathy Norcott, Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont (SCDAP); Jesse Duncan, Triad Health Project; Sandy Michael, NIA Community Action Center; Nancy Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Adaora A. Adimora, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sharon Weir, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

14.  Ghanaian Traditional Healers: The Effect of Formalized Training on Their Level of Knowledge of Family Planning and Contraceptive Techniques and Their Attitudes towards Collaboration with Biomedical Institutions  •  Juno C. Lawrence, Emory University

15.  Educate a Woman and Save a Nation: The Relationship between Maternal Education and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa  •  Nyovani Madise, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Eliya M. Zulu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Zoe Matthews, University of Southampton

16.  Prevalence of Measurement Data on the Impacts of HIV/AIDS among Those Aged 50 and Older: An Examination of Cohort and Period Transitions  •  James W. McNally, University of Michigan

17.  Living Arrangement: How Does It Relate to the Health of the Elderly in India?  •  Mitali Sen, University of Maryland; James Noon, University of Maryland

18.  Marital Status, Intergenerational Co-Residence and Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality among Middle-Aged and Older Men and Women during Wartime in Beirut: Gains and Liabilities  •  Abla Sibai, American University of Beirut; Astrid Fletcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

19.  Socioeconomic Status and Health: Focusing on Co-Morbidity of Self-Rated Health and Psychological Well-Being  •  Seung-Eun Song, University of Texas at Austin; Hyeyoung Woo, University of Texas at Austin

20.  Does Experience Make Better Doctors? Evidence from Lasik and Other Refractive Eye Surgeries  •  Ignez M. Tristao, Congressional Budget Office (CBO); Juan M. Contreras-Tirado, Congressional Budget Office (CBO); Beomsoo Kim, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Children, including child health, youth and parents

21.  Racial Differences in Infant Mortality by Cause: Florida, 1980-2000  •  Jessica C. Bishop, Florida State University; Isaac W. Eberstein, Florida State University

22.  Main Factors Associated with College Major Choices of the Undergraduate Students in Bangladesh  •  Syeda Tonima Hadi, University of Hawaii at Manoa

23.  The Tie That Binds: Early Marriage and Women’s Empowerment in Two Indian States  •  Sanyukta Mathur, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW); Jeffrey Edmeades, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW); Sreela DasGupta, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW); Anju Malhotra, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW); Dipankar Bhattacharya, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

24.  Explaining Race Differences in Student Behavior and Academic Achievement: The Relative Contribution of Student, Peer, and School Characteristics  •  Clara G. Muschkin, Duke University; Audrey N. Beck, Duke University

25.  Which State Policies Explain Racial Disparities in U.S. Infant Health?  •  Laura Prichett, Johns Hopkins University

26.  How Do Adolescent Mothers Fare in Later Life? Experiences from Urban vs. Rural Teen Mothers in Colombia, a Middle-Income Country  •  Andrés Salazar, Universidad de La Sabana

27.  The Impact of Immigration on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from a Migration Lottery Program  •  Steven Stillman, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research; John Gibson, University of Waikato; David McKenzie, World Bank Group

28.  Marital Relationships and Women’s Status: Intergenerational Effects on Age at First Sex  •  Ushma D. Upadhyay, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

29.  The Impact of Bolsa Escola Program on Child’s Grade Progression Rates in Brazil  •  Ana P. Verona, University of Texas at Austin

Labor force, education, inequality, and policy

30.  Family Life Course Transitions and Household Economy in Dynamic Perspective: A Comparative Analysis of Households in China & Northern Vietnam  •  Feinian Chen, North Carolina State University

31.  Income Inequality and Health: A Multilevel Analysis Investigating Interactions with (Non)Metropolitan Status, Sex, Income and Race/Ethnicity  •  Suzanne C. Eichenlaub, University of Washington

32.  The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants  •  Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College

33.  Occupational Sex Segregation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Insights from the 2001 Census  •  Sangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland

34.  Women’s Educational Attainment, 2000-2005  •  Annette Rogers, U.S. Census Bureau

35.  Has the Child Tax Credit Increased Fertility in the United States?  •  James M. Sallee, University of Michigan

Methods and applied demography

36.  Applying the Current Core Based Statistical Area Standards to Historical Decennial Census Data  •  Todd K. Gardner, U.S. Census Bureau

37.  The Role of Models in Model-Assisted and Model-Dependent Estimation for Domains and Small Areas  •  Risto Lehtonen, University of Helsinki; Mikko Myrskylä, University of Pennsylvania; Carl-Eric Särndal, Université de Montréal; Ari Veijanen, Statistics Finland

38.  Six Global Maps of Urban Land Cover: Comparison and Validation  •  David Potere, Princeton University; Annemarie Schneider, University of California, Santa Barbara

39.  Assessing the Consistency of Age and Sex Distributions in the Census, the Population Estimates Program, and the American Community Survey  •  Gregory Robinson, U.S. Census Bureau; Julie Meyer, U.S. Census Bureau

40.  The Lee-Carter Automatic Retrieval Engine (LAR-E): A User-Friendly, Web-Based Implementation of the Lee-Carter Mortality Forecast Method, with Extensions  •  Webb Sprague, University of California, Berkeley

Fertility, family planning and sexual behavior

41.  Economic Crisis and Ethnic Differences in Desired Fertility: Russian and Tartar Preferences in the Late 1990s  •  Kristen Adkins, University of Texas at Austin

42.  A Successful Government and NGO Partnership in the Provision of Safe Abortion Services: A Case Study of Pune District, India  •  Sushanta Banerjee, Ipas; Rukmini Potdar, Ipas

43.  Cohabitation versus Marriage: First Union Formation in Hungary  •  Cristina Bradatan, University of Central Florida; Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Kansas State University

44.  IUD Use in Turkey  •  DeAnna L. Gore, Florida State University

45.  The Agricultural Transition and Fertility Decline in Developing Countries  •  Eric B. Jensen, Pennsylvania State University

46.  A 2006 National Audit of the Availability of Comprehensive Abortion Services (CAC) in the Republic of South Africa: Availability, Method Mix and Spatial Concentration of Services  •  Ellen M.H. Mitchell, Ipas; Mosotho Gabriel, Ipas; Karen Trueman, Ipas; Errol Knonko, Ipas; Edward Cherry, Ipas; Janie Benson, Ipas

47.  Association between Migratory Experience and Sexual Behaviors among Young Adults in Thailand  •  Sureeporn Punpuing, Mahidol University; Philip Guest, Population Council; Umaporn Pattaravanich, Mahidol University; Chai Podhisita, Mahidol University

48.  Mistimed and Unwanted Pregnancies in Bangladesh: Trends and Determinants  •  Mamunur Rashid, Bowling Green State University; Naima Shifa, Bowling Green State University

49.  Reproductive Morbidity among Tribal and Non-Tribal Women in India: A Special Focus on Domestic Violence  •  Ruchi Sogarwal, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO); Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

50.  Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Fertility in Colombia  •  Piedad Urdinola, Universidad Nacional de Columbia, Bogota; Carlos Ospino, Foundation for the Development of the Caribbean (FUNDESARROLLO)

Family, marriage, households and unions

51.  Attitudes toward Gay Marriage: The Influence of Sociodemographic Characteristics, Religious, and Political Attitudes  •  Stacey Brumbaugh, Bowling Green State University; Laura A. Sanchez, Bowling Green State University; Steven Nock, University of Virginia; James D. Wright, Central Florida University

52.  Obesity and the Timing of Cohabitation and Marriage  •  Tianji Cai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

53.  Fatherhood in Lesotho: The Effects of Children’s Living Arrangements with Biological Fathers and Other Adult Male Relatives on Current School Enrollment  •  Thandie Hlabana, Brown University

54.  Socioeconomic Development and Changes in Life Values and Family Formation Attitudes  •  Li-Shou Yang, University of Michigan; Yu-Hsuan Lin, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan

Gender, race/ethnicity, religion

55.  Racial Intermarriage and Divorce in the United States  •  Vincent K. Fu, University of Utah; Nicholas H. Wolfinger, University of Utah

56.  How Many African Americans Are Missing? Differential Racial Mortality, Excess African American Deaths, and Lost Population Growth in the United States, 1900-2000  •  Mary Jackman, University of California, Davis; Kimberlee A. Shauman, University of California, Davis

57.  Predicting Physical and Psychological Abuse for White, Black, and Hispanic Married Women  •  Carolyn Sawtell, Florida State University; Isaac W. Eberstein, Florida State University

58.  Are Latinos Becoming White? Determinants of Latinos' Racial Self-Identification in the U.S.  •  Jeffrey M. Timberlake, University of Cincinnati; Joseph Michael, University of Cincinnati

59.  The Effect of Religiosity on Male and Female Fertility  •  Li Zhang, Texas A&M University

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