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Poster Session 7

Saturday, March 31
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Westside Salon 3-4
5th floor

Geography, migration, urbanization and neighborhoods

1.  Exploring Perceptions, Behaviors and Awareness: Water and Water Pollution in South Africa  •  Barbara A. Anderson, University of Michigan; John H. Romani, University of Michigan; Heston Phillips, Statistics South Africa; Marie Wentzel, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC); Kholadi Tlabela, Department of Correctional Services, South Africa

2.  Post-Migration Commuting Behavior among Urban to Rural Migrants in England and Wales, 2001  •  Tony Champion, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; David L. Brown, Cornell University; Mike Coombes, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

3.  Foreign but at Home: Migration and Integration of Turkish and Bosnian Women in Vienna  •  Katrin Fliegenschnee, Vienna Institute of Demography; Silvia Dallinger, Vienna Institute of Demography; Caroline Berghammer, Vienna Institute of Demography

4.  The Value of Remittances: Effects of Labor Migration on Family Income in Tajikistan  •  Erin T. Hofmann, University of Texas at Austin; Cynthia Buckley, University of Texas at Austin

5.  Socio-Spatial Controls of Obesity in Delhi and Its Environs  •  Naresh Kumar, University of Iowa and Brown University; Adina K. Batnitzky, University of Oxford

6.  International Migration and Development: The Case of China  •  Zai Liang, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY); Hideki Morooka, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)

7.  Migration and Rural Urbanization: The Diffusion of Urban Behavior to Rural Communities in Guatemala  •  David P. Lindstrom, Brown University; Adriana Lopez Ramirez, Brown University; Elisa Munoz-Franco, Brown University

Mortality, adult health, aging and biology

8.  Mortality Surveillance at Burial Sites in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia): Major Methodological Issues and Opportunities for Research  •  Tekebash Araya, Addis Ababa University; Georges Reniers, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of the Witwatersrand; Gail Davey, Addis Ababa University; Yemane Berhane, Addis Ababa University; Eduard J. Sanders, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

9.  Perceived Health Status of Elderly in Rural Maharashtra: Do Socio-Economic Differentials Explain Anything?  •  Dhananjay W. Bansod, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

10.  Socioeconomic Characteristics and Health in Old Age: Intergenerational Influences in the Chinese Family  •  Toshiko Kaneda, Population Reference Bureau (PRB); Zachary Zimmer, University of Utah; Xianghua Fang, Beijing Municipal Network for Health & Care of the Elderly; Zhe Tang, Beijing Municipal Network for Health & Care of the Elderly

11.  Socioeconomic Status and Self-Rated Health in China  •  Guangya Liu, North Carolina State University; Feinian Chen, North Carolina State University

12.  Estimating the Migrant Survival Advantage from Parental Orphanhood of Second Generation Migrants  •  Marc Luy, University of Rostock

13.  Impact of ICD-10 Implementation on the Continuity of the Cause-of-Death Statistics: The Case of France  •  France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Jacques Vallin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

14.  Age Distribution in Seasonal Influenza and Pneumonia Mortality in the United States, 1960-2002  •  Nobuko Mizoguchi, University of California, Berkeley

15.  The Effect of Life Transitions on Suicide in the Elderly  •  Brenda Ohta, Arizona State University; Leah Rohlfsen, Arizona State University

16.  Early-Life Experience and Old-Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans  •  Dejun Su, University of Texas-Pan American

17.  The Health and Social Context of Menopause Symptoms  •  Sarah E. Tom, University of California, Berkeley

18.  Abortion-Related Deaths in Brazil: A Case Study  •  Sandra Valongueiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Alessandra Chacham, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

19.  Living in Radiation World: Populations Neuropsychiatric Projections  •  Sergiy V. Volovyk, Duke University; Konstantin Loganovsky, Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine; Dimitry Bazyka, Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine; Volodymyr Bebeshko, Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

20.  Is Self-Rated Health a Valid Outcome Measure for Studying Educational Differences in Health?  •  Anna Zajacova, Princeton University

Children, including child health, youth and parents

21.  Correlates of School Dropout in Ethiopia: Family and School Factors  •  Kassahun A. Admassu, Brown University

22.  Delayed Dispersal in Humans: Natal Territory Quality and Dispersal Timing  •  Elizabeth Blum, Birmingham-Southern College

23.  Exploring Social Disorganization: A Multilevel Analysis of Child Mortality in Metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil  •  Kuniko Chijiwa, University of Florida; John D. Reitzel, Illinois State University

24.  Weight Overestimation as a Predictor of Disordered Eating Behaviors among Young Women in the United States  •  Amanda R. Conley, University of Colorado at Boulder

25.  The Impact of HIV/AIDS and Other Macrosocial Transformations on Children's Living Arrangements in South Africa  •  Erika K. Barth Cottrell, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Nompumelelo B. Nzimande, University of Wisconsin at Madison

26.  The Differential Value of Sons and Daughters in Contemporary Society  •  Rebecca Kippen, Australian National University; Ann Evans, Australian National University; Edith E. Gray, Australian National University

27.  Adolescent Fertility, Marriage, Race and Religion in Brazil  •  Sarah McKinnon, University of Texas at Austin; Catherine McNamee, University of Texas at Austin

28.  Ethnicity, Family Structure, Household Socioeconomic Status and Premarital Sexual Initiation and Safe Sex Practices among Adolescents in Zimbabwe  •  William Sambisa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sian Curtis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; C. Shannon Stokes, Pennsylvania State University

29.  Distinct Elements of a Multidimensional Measure of Young Adult SES Differentially Predict Obesity across Race/Ethnicity  •  Melissa Scharoun-Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Penny Gordon-Larsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

30.  The Global Distribution of Infant Mortality: A Subnational Spatial View  •  Adam Storeygard, Brown University; Marc Levy, Columbia University; Glenn D. Deane, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)

31.  Neighborhood Disadvantage and Perceptions of Social Support among Adolescents  •  Sapna Swaroop, University of Chicago; Michelle Pannor Silver, University of Chicago; Kathleen A. Cagney, University of Chicago

32.  Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in Informal Urban Settlements  •  Ye Yazoume, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Adama Konseiga, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Eliya M. Zulu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

Labor force, education, inequality, and policy

33.  Economic Analysis of the Abortion Incidence in the U.S. in 2000  •  Karin Ganter, Ipas

34.  Welfare Recipiency and Its Effect on Immigrant Earnings  •  Mark A. Leach, University of California, Irvine; Raaj Tiagi, University of California, Irvine

35.  Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Family Structure: A Cohort Analysis  •  Christine Percheski, Princeton University

36.  The Mommy Track: Job Placement and the Wages of Working Mothers  •  Jeremy Staff, Pennsylvania State University

37.  Women, Marriage, and Social Security Benefits: Revisited  •  Christopher R. Tamborini, U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA); Kevin Whitman, U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)

38.  Women’s Retirement Expectations: A Longitudinal Study of a Transitional Cohort in the U.S.  •  Jen D. Wong, Pennsylvania State University

Methods and applied demography

39.  Problems of Mortality Measurement at Advanced Ages  •  Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

40.  Using Interpolated Curves to Represent and Compare Life Course Patterns  •  Joy Pixley, University of California, Irvine

41.  Empirical Prediction Intervals for County Population Forecasts  •  Stefan Rayer, University of Florida; Stanley K. Smith, University of Florida; Jeff Tayman, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)

42.  Estimating Conflict-Related Mortality in Timor-Leste, 1974-1999: A Comparative Review of Demographic and Statistical Estimation Methods  •  Romesh Silva, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Benetech; Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Benetech

43.  Standardized versus Spontaneous Translation of Survey Questions: An Analysis of Kenyan DHS Data  •  Alexander Weinreb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Mariano Sana, Louisiana State University

Fertility, family planning and sexual behavior

44.  Explaining Variation in Fertility Timing: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study  •  Marah A. Curtis, Boston University; Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University

45.  Contraceptive Failure Rates: Results from a French Population-Based Survey  •  Caroline Moreau, Princeton University; Jean Bouyer, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); Germán Rodríguez, Princeton University; James Trussell, Princeton University

46.  Demographic and Behavioral Factors Associated with Inconsistent Condom Use among Women at Sexual Risk in Los Angeles County  •  Eunice Muthengi, University of California, Los Angeles; Mike Janson, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

47.  Domestic Violence and Constrained Contraceptive Choices in Selected Areas of Osun State, Nigeria  •  Amos O. Oyedokun, University of the Witwatersrand

48.  Which Women Stop at One Child? Evidence from Australia  •  Nick Parr, Macquarie University

49.  Intervention of IEC to Improve Male Involvement in Reproductive Health: Lessons Learned from Tribal Population of Central India  •  Kalyan B. Saha, Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (ICMR), India; Neeru Singh, Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (ICMR), India; Uma C. Saha, Xavier Institute of Development, Action and Studies (XIDAS); Arvind Pandey, National Institute of Research in Medical Statistics (ICMR), India

50.  Reproductive Status, Risk Perception and Coital Behavior  •  Haijiang Wang, Johns Hopkins University

Family, marriage, households and unions

51.  The Role of Student Debt, Consumer Debt, and Assets in Union Transitions during Early Adulthood  •  Jeff Dew, Pennsylvania State University

52.  Predicting Registered Domestic Partnerships among Gay Men and Lesbians  •  Gary J. Gates, University of California, Los Angeles; Natalya Maisel, University of California, Los Angeles; M.V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts

53.  What is Important for a Successful Marriage? Attitudinal Differences by Race, Class, and Gender  •  Kristen Harknett, University of Pennsylvania; Arielle Kuperberg, University of Pennsylvania

54.  The Impacts of Late-Life Parental Death on Sibling Relationships: Do Advance Directives Help or Hurt?  •  Dmitry Khodyakov, Rutgers University; Deborah Carr, Rutgers University

55.  Determinants of Female Family Headship in Sub-Saharan Africa  •  Dionisia Maffioli, Università degli Studi di Bari

56.  Extramarital Affairs in China: A Feminist Approach  •  Yuanting Zhang, Bowling Green State University; Zhenmei Zhang, Michigan State University

Gender, race/ethnicity, religion

57.  The Demography of U.S. Veterans: Changing Military Staffing Policy and Influence on Risk of Service for Black and White Men, 1950 - 2004  •  Amy K. Bailey, University of Washington

58.  The Aboriginal Population and the Census: 135 Years of Information – 1871 to 2006  •  Gustave Goldmann, Statistics Canada

59.  New Times, Old Beliefs: Projecting the Future Size of Religions in Austria, Canada and Switzerland  •  Anne Goujon, Vienna Institute of Demography and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Katrin Fliegenschnee, Vienna Institute of Demography

60.  Achievement in Income among Asian and Hispanic American Young Adults  •  Chunyan Song, California State University, Chico

61.  Generational Differences in the Fertility of Immigrant Populations in the United States  •  Sarah Walchuk Thayer, University of California, Berkeley

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