center newsSummer 2011 University of Michigan

PROGRAM & POSTER SESSION

The program component of the event – “Honoring the Past and Preparing for the Future” – will focus on trends in and the socioeconomic implications of marriage and fertility behavior, children’s outcomes, and well-being in the middle and older years (Friday); as well as trends and challenges in data and methodology, especially for international work (Saturday).

Bob Groves will provide the keynote address at the banquet on Saturday evening.

A poster session will be held in the Michigan League on Saturday evening before and during the banquet, allowing banquet goers to sip cocktails while strolling through the exhibits.

Plans for our 50th anniversary celebration have taken shape, email invitations have gone out, and we’ve had RSVPs from many of our alums.

CALENDAR Friday, October 21 to Saturday, October 22, 2011

Reception: Friday 11:30 am

Program: Friday 1-4:30 pm and Saturday 10 am-1:30 pm

Social events: Friday evening happy hour Friday afternoon stadium tour Saturday afternoon campus tour with Ren Farley

Poster session: Saturday evening

Banquet: Saturday evening; Keynote speaker Bob Groves

OTHER EVENTS

Former PSC students, post-docs, faculty and staff can participate in planned social events as well.

Off erings include a guided tour of the campus and the new Michigan stadium, a PSC Happy Hour in downtown Ann Arbor, and a Main Street Crawl on Friday night.

RSVP (and see who else is coming), get informa on on the program and hotel accommoda ons, and

Check Out the 50th Anniversary Website:http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/fifty/

see updates on alumni, including ‘Then & Now’ photos, alumni features, and In Memoriam.

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Training at the library

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.” -- Abraham Lincoln

Spend some me this summer to sharpen your axe! We have scheduled 2 demo sessions each for EndNote X5 and NIH MyBibliography. Select

the date that’s best for you. Feel free to contact us to discuss your needs. If you have always wanted to get all your references into a bibliographic management tool, we can help!

EndNote X5 Demo: 2 Sessions

Wed, Aug10, 1:00-2:00 pm

Thurs, Sept 1, 9:30-10:30 am

MyBibliography and other NIH Bibliographic Management Tools: 2 Sessions

Wed, Aug 10, 2:30-3:30 pm

Thurs, Sept 1, 11:00-12:00 am

• Life cycle of an NIH funded paper: acknowledgement, deposit, and appear in NIH RePORTER.

• Use MyBibliography to manage publica ons in eRA Commons

• Use MyBibliography to manage NIH public access compliance

• Establish publica on-grant associa on

• View PubMed Central access sta s cs

• Add publica ons to results tab in NIH RePorter

If you have questions or need assistance, contact Lee or Yan:

psc-library@umich.edu

Sharpen Your Axe

The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) is a small offi ce in PSC of student research assistants and programmers led by JP DeWi and Bill Frey. SSDAN develops materials aimed at helping educators improve quan ta ve literacy in the classroom and making census data more accessible to the general public. This summer, SSDAN has been developing an update to their popular CensusScope website, an online interac ve look-up tool that will enable users to explore social topics through interac ve maps and dynamically updated graphs and charts u lizing the most recent American Community Survey and 2010 Census data. The SSDAN staff hopes to launch the new site in the upcoming months.

• Add/import references into EndNote Library

• Search online databases from EndNote Library to collect references

• Integrate with the Web of Knowledge

• Find more full text ar cles automa cally by customizing to UM Library’s open URL resolver

• Create records with PDF fi les• Import, search and annotate PDFs

in EndNote• Collect and share your references

with EndNote Web• Include fi les a achments when

moving records between your computer and the Web

• Insert cita ons and create bibliographies in Microso Word with various cita ons styles

For the latest features of EndNote, see a 6-minute clip from Thomson Reuters: h p://bit.ly/pW0Dm2

SSDAN recently released the third edi on of its textbook, Inves ga ng Change in American Society. The book is supplemented by an interac ve online tool that students use to conduct simple data analysis.

SSDAN is also con nuing to collaborate with Cathy Sun and the Brookings Ins tu on to analyze the available 2010 Census data, and is looking

forward to launching the newest version of its website in early August.

SSDAN activities have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Public Data Queries, Inc., and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Bringing Social Science Data to the Masses

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Recently Funded Projects at PSC

Martha BaileyAn American Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and Mortality under the War on PovertyUniversity of Washington (P=DHHS/ASPE) 10/01/10 - 5/31/11 $15,000 This project evaluates the mortality eff ects of the Neighborhood Health Center program (NHC), established under the War on Poverty, using data on grants made by the OEO and informa on on county-level mortality from 1959-1988. In addi on to making es mates of the eff ects of NHCs on na onal mortality, we examine regional heterogeneity in NHCs eff ects by race, age and cause of death.

Martha BaileyNeighborhood Health Centers and Use of Care under the War on PovertyUniversity of California – Berkeley (P=NIH/NIA) 12/01/10 - 11/30/11 $30,900Neighborhood Health Center (NHCs) were established under the War on Poverty to complement Medicare and Medicaid by reducing nonfi nancial barriers to health care and providing more comprehensive care. This project examines who used NHCs by race, sex, age, and insurance and poverty status, and how disease burden, health behaviors, insurance status, care availability, and care u liza on changed in U.S. communi es receiving NHCs rela ve to the na on as a whole.

Sarah BurgardThe Michigan Recession and Recovery Survey: Wave Two Data Prepara on and Ini al Analysis of Prospec ve Wave 1/Wave 2 DataUM/SPH (P=Robert Wood Johnson Founda on)10/01/10 - 7/31/11 $12,869 The goal of the broader research project to which this proposal contributes is to be er understand how the recession that began in 2007 and subsequent ARRA spending are aff ec ng the health of Americans. This funding supports data cleaning and analysis of the second wave of the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS), collec on, scheduled to be completed in summer of 2011.

William FreyDemographic Research with Brookings Ins tu onBrookings Ins tu on 9/1/2010 - 8/31/2011 $25,000 This project will support programming, data analysis, and research assistance for William Frey on census-related and other demographic analysis.

David HardingDisconnectedness and the Well-being of Former PrisonersUM/ Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (P=NIH/ASPE) 9/15/2010 -5/31/2011 $21,280 This project , a mixed-method study of former prisoners in Michigan, uses data from longitudinal qualita ve interviews of former prisoners, and administra ve records on individuals released from prison in 2003 and followed through 2009. The study explores how former prisoners re-enter society -- the challenges encountered and suppor ve mechanisms used -- and which former prisoners are at highest risk for failure to reconnect.

David HardingReintegra on of Formerly Incarcerated Young AdultsNSF 4/1/2011 - 3/31/2012 $130,645 This project addresses cri cal gaps in the research on prisoner reentry by inves ga ng how two key contexts – neighborhoods and households – aff ect the transi on to adulthood among formerly incarcerated young people. It inves gates the eff ects of these contexts on outcomes such as employment, schooling, substance use, and further criminal jus ce system involvement.

Yasamin KusunokiNeighborhood Context, School Context, and Roman c Rela onshipsNIH/NICHD 3/21/2011 - 1/31/2012 $77,584 This project uses Add Health data to examine how neighborhood and school contexts structure the roman c and sexual rela onships formed during

adolescence. It gauges the eff ects of the sociocultural characteris cs of these contexts on the selec on of partners and the types of rela onships formed during adolescence.

Jeff rey Morenoff Using Michigan Sentencing Guidelines to Es mate Eff ects of Incarcera on and Proba on on Reoff ending and EmploymentNSF 6/1/2011 -5/31/2012 $163,914 The causal eff ects of incarcera on are diffi cult to es mate because the diff erences in outcomes between off enders sentenced to prison vs. proba on, even for the same off ense, may be due to pre-exis ng and unmeasured diff erences between these groups that aff ect both sentencing and outcomes. This study replicates and extends quasi-experimental research on the eff ects of incarcera on, collec ng/ archiving a unique data set and using Mul ple Iden fi ca on Strategies and other analy c advances.

Arland ThorntonTelevision and Interna onal Family Change: A Randomized ExperimentPennsylvania State University (P=NIH/NICHD) 9/1/2010 - 5/31/2011 $20,028 To study the causal impact on family a tudes and behaviors, this study uses an experimental design in which 14 remote, rural, unelectrifi ed villages will be stra fi ed into 7 matched pairs, with one village in each pair randomly selected for the introduc on of television.

Arland ThorntonSupplement for Funds to Prepare an Edited Volume Eastern Michigan University 10/1/2010 - 9/30/2011 $10,000 This funding is to organize, compile, and edit papers presented at a workshop held in Cairo, Egypt in May 2010.

For a list of PSC proposals submi ed Oct 2010 to April 2011, see the PSC intranet.

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PSC Library: New Book Acquisitions

Search the PSC Library Catalog

Urban Health: Comba ng Dispari es with Local Data. Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah and Maureen R. Benjamins. Oxford University Press. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Designing and Conduc ng Mixed Methods Research, 2nd Edi on. John Creswell and Vicki Plano Clark. Sage. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Sta s cal Methods for Rates and Propor ons, 3rdEdi on. Joseph L. Fleiss, Bruce Levin and Myunghee Cho Paik. Wiley-Interscience. 2003PSC Catalog Record Publisher Informa on

The Eff ects of Risk Factors on Disability: A Mul state Analysis of the U.S. Health and Re rement Study. Mieke Reuser. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.PSC Catalog Record

Well-Being: The Founda ons of Hedonic Psychology. Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diender, and Norbert Schwarz. Russell Sage Founda on. 1999.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Social and Behavioral Research and the Internet: Advances in Applied Methods and Research. Marcel Das, Peter Ester, and Lark Kaczmirek. Routledge. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

HIV Prevalence Es mates from the Demographic and Health Surveys: Updated June 2010. Erica Nybro and Bernard Barrère. Macro Interna onal. 2010.

PSC Catalog RecordFull Text (PDF)

Handbook of Advanced Mul level Analysis. Joop J. Hox and J. Kyle Roberts. Taylor & Francis Group. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Demographic Transi on: An Asian Perspec ve. Rajiv Balakrishnan. Konark Publishers. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Impact of Demographic Change in Thailand. Gavin Jones and Wassana Im-em. United Na ons Popula on Fund. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordFull report (PDF)

Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applica ons. Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt and Jaak Billiet. Routledge. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Applied Survey Data Analysis. Steven Heeringa, Brady T. West, and Patricia A. Berglund. Chapman & Hall/CRC. 2010.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Record

Interna onal Handbook of Adult Mortality. Richard G. Rogers and Eileen Crimmins. Springer. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Microso Offi ce Project 2007: Step by Step. Carl Cha ield and Timothy Johnson. Microso . 2007.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Handbook of Survey Research, 2nd Edi on. Peter V. Marsden and James D. Wright. Emerald. 2010.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

The Eighteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Robert A. Spies, Janet F. Carson, and Kurt F. Geisinger. University of Nebraska Press. 2010.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

The Geographical Dimensions of Partner Choice. Karen Haandrikman. Rozenberg Publishers. 2010.PSC Catalog RecordProject Page

Wri ng the NIH Grant Proposal: A Step-by-Step Guide. William Gerin, Chris ne H. Kapelewski, and Jerome I nger. Sage. 2011.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

The European Union and Global Social Change: A Cri cal Geopoli cal-Economic Analysis. József Böröcz. Routledge. 2010.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

The Federal Sta s cal System: Its Vulnerability Ma ers More than You Think. Kenneth Prewi . Annals of the American Academy of Poli cal and Social Sciences. 2010.PSC Catalog RecordOnline Access

The New Race Ques on: How the Census Counts Mul racial Individuals. Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters. PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being. Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, and Rosalind Berkowitz King. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2003.PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Mul level and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, 2nd edi on. Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal. Stata Press. 2008PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

Interna onal Diff erences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources. Eileen Crimmins, Samuel H. Preston, and Barney Cohen. PSC Catalog RecordPublisher Informa on

PSC Catalog Reco

Job responsibilitiesA er working as a research assistant and a Unix system administrator at the Center, Ricardo Rodriguiz succeeded Al Anderson as head of compu ng in 1997. In addi on to various oversight du es, Ricardo also serves as the Center’s System Administrator, managing all of the servers for the Center, including our new virtualiza on cluster and the virtual desktop infrastructure.

He also works with SRC Compu ng Support to help manage the Ins tute’s

shared infrastructure, including networking, e-mail, and network security. And he has worked with the ISR Director’s Offi ce to help advise on IT and infrastructure aspects of the new wing of ISR about to begin construc on.

Past experienceRicardo came to Michigan as a graduate student in Poli cal Science, earning his Master’s degree in 1988 and achieving Candidacy for the PhD in 1992. He was

a computer consultant for the Poli cal Science Department before coming to the Center and also worked for four years on the compu ng staff for the ICPSR Summer Program.

Outside interestsRicardo has been ac ve at Saint Mary Student Parish for more than 20 years. As part of this work, he completed the Lay Ministry Forma on Program, earning a second Bachelor’s degree in Theology and Religious Studies from

Siena Heights University in Adrian. His academic interests in Theology include Liturgy and Systema c Theology, par cularly Christology.

Ricardo also con nues to read widely on domes c and interna onal poli cs, American and world history, astronomy and

space science, and baseball. While he started out as a pro football fan, he became a Michigan football fan on his arrival in Ann Arbor and a Detroit Tigers fan since (many thanks to Ren Farley and Lisa Neidert for that epiphany).

Staff Profi le: Ricardo RodriguizRicardo began at the Center in 1992 as a Research Assistant working in Data Services. In 1997 he assumed his current position as Director of Computing. In this capacity he helps manage the Center’s computing operations and staff.

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“My work as a computer consultant for the Political Science Department and as a system administrator for the Center convinced me that I was much better at IT than academic research – though my Political Science training, particularly in research methods, has proven invaluable in supporting researchers at the Center.”

In early June, Director of PSC Data Services Lisa Neidert a ended the annual IASSIST conference (Interna onal Associa on for Social Science Informa on Service & Technology) in Vancouver, BC.

Neidert made two presenta ons that refl ect the breadth of PSC Data Services.

1. Canadian census long-form controversy. The Conserva ve government of Canada decided to divorce the long-form ques onnaire from the census, making it voluntary rather than mandatory, with the likely result of decreased data quality. Neidert’s talk was based on work conducted by the US Census Bureau on the American Community Survey (voluntary vs. mandatory responses), as well as Bob Groves’ work on non-response bias.

More on the controversy can be found in the PSC Info Blog.

2. PSC’s Restricted Data Contract system. Neidert, along with PSC staff ers Rhonda Moats and Michael McIntyre, has been developing a proprietary contract system for restricted

IASSIST in the Pacifi c Northwestdata over the past year. Neidert publicly presented the system for the fi rst me – with its quick comparison grid, report builder, examples, and inspec on checklists – and fi elded comments (and compliments) from audience members.

PSC researchers with restricted data contracts can expect to be contacted by Neidert later this summer with a reminder about contract and security condi ons.

Given the lovely conference loca on and me of year, Neidert (seen here in the Olympic Rain Forest) squeezed in a side trip to Washington State.

Recent Journal Articles by PSC Affiliates

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Article citations on PSC profi le pages now include PMCID number, DOI number, and full-text links when available.

If you want us to add or correct your publication information, contact psc-info@umich.edu.

Auchincloss, A.H., R.L. Riolo, Daniel Brown, J. Cook, and Ana Diez Roux. 2011. “An Agent-Based Model of Income Inequalities in Diet in the Context of Residential Segregation.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(3): 303-311. DOI.

Axinn, William, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Meeso Caponi Ro. 2011. “Gender double standards in parenting attitudes.” Social Science Research, 40(2): 417-432.

Bailey, Martha J., and William J. Collins. 2011. “Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrifi cation, Appliance Diff usion, and the Amish.” American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, 3(2): 189-217. DOI.

Barber, Jennifer S., and Patricia East. 2011. “Children’s Experiences After the Unintended Birth of a Sibling.” Demography, 48(1): 101-125. DOI.

Burgard, Sarah. 2011. “The Needs of Others: Gender and Sleep Interruptions for Caregivers.” Social Forces, 89(4): 1189-1215.

Cain, K., Sioban D. Harlow, R. J. A. Little, B. Nan, M. Yosef, J. Taff e, and Michael R. Elliott. 2011. “Bias Due to Left Truncation and Left Censoring in Longitudinal Studies of Developmental and Disease Processes.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(9): 1078-1084. DOI.

Chiu, C.J., L.A. Wray, and Mary Beth Ofstedal. 2011. “Diabetes-related change in physical disability from midlife to older adulthood: Evidence from 1996-2003 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan.” Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 91(3): 413-423. DOI.

Chu, Cyrus Y., Yu Xie, and Ruoh-rong Yu. 2011. “Coresidence with elderly parents: a comparative study of Southeast China and Taiwan.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 73(1): 120-135. DOI.

Clarke, Philippa J., Victor W. Marshall, James S. House, and Paula M. Lantz. 2011. “The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course: Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging.” Social Forces, 89(4): 1287-1313.

Couper, Mick P., Courtney Kennedy, Frederick G. Conrad, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. “Designing Input Fields for Non-Narrative Open-Ended Responses in Web Surveys.” Journal of Offi cial Statistics, 27(1): 65-85.

Dowd, Jennifer B., Jeremy Albright, Trivellore Raghunathan, Robert F. Schoeni, Felicia B. LeClere, and George A. Kaplan. 2011. “Deeper and Wider: Income and Mortality in the USA over Three Decades.” International Journal of Epidemiology, 40(1): 183-188. DOI.

Freedman, Vicki, Irina Groafova, and Jeannette Rogowski. 2011. “Neighborhoods and chronic disease onset in later life.” American Journal of Public Health, 101(1): 79-86. DOI.

Geronimus, Arline T., John Bound, and Cynthia Colen. 2011. “Excess black mortality in the United States and in select black or white high-poverty areas, 1980-2000.” American Journal of Public Health, 101(4): 720-729. DOI.

Goldman, Noreen, Cassio M. Turra, Luis Rosero-Bixby, David Weir, and Eileen Crimmins. 2011. “Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: A comparative study.” Social Science & Medicine, 72(2): 307-315. DOI.

Hudomiet, Peter, Gabor Kezdi, and Robert Willis. 2011. “Stock market crash and expectations of American households.” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 26(3): 393-415. DOI.

Jones, Malia, Anne R R. Pebley, and Narayan Sastry. 2011. “Eyes on the block: Measuring urban physical disorder through in-person observation.” Social Science Research, 40(2): 523-537. DOI.

Keene, Danya, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2011. “Community-Based Support among African American Public Housing Residents.” Journal of Urban Health, 88(1): 41-53. DOI.

Lam, David, Cally Ardington, and Murray Leibbrandt. 2011. “Schooling as a lottery: Racial diff erences in school advancement in urban South Africa.” Journal of Development Economics, 95(2): 121-136. DOI.

Little, R.J., B. Nan, and Sioban D. Harlow. 2011. “A method for longitudinal prospective evaluation of markers for a subsequent event.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(12): 1380-1387. DOI.

Ofstedal, Mary Beth, and David Weir. 2011. “Recruitment and Retention of Minority Participants in the Health and Retirement Study.” Gerontologist, 51(suppl. 1): S8-S20. DOI.

Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode. 2011. “Adapting North American wheat production to climatic challenges, 1839-2009.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(2): 480-485. DOI.

Osborne, Nicholas H., Amir A. A. Ghaferi, Lauren Nicholas, and Justin B. Dimick. 2011. “Evaluating Popular Media and Internet-Based Hospital Quality Ratings for Cancer Surgery.” Archives of Surgery, 146(5): 600-604.

Pearson, Jay, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2011. “Race/ethnicity, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Co-ethnic Social Ties and Health: Evidence from the National Jewish Population Survey.” American Journal of Public Health, 101(7): 1314–1321. DOI.

Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah Burgard. 2011. “Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996.” Population Research and Policy Review, 30(1): 81-100. DOI.

Smajgl, Alex, Daniel Brown, Diego Valbuena, and Marco Huigen. 2011. “Empirical characterisation of agent behaviours in socio-ecological systems.” Environmental Modelling and Software, 26(7): 837-844. DOI.

Toepoel, Vera, and Mick P. Couper. 2011. “Can Verbal Instructions Counteract Visual Context Eff ects in Web Surveys?” Public Opinion Quarterly, 75(1): 1-18. DOI.

Tran, Nguyen, Jaye Stapleton, Yilin Zheng, Sioban D. Harlow, Huixia Yang, and Cheryl A. Moyer. 2011. “Contraceptive practices of women visiting a gynecology clinic in Beijing, China.” International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 112(1): 64-65. DOI.

Tsai, Shu-Ling, and Yu Xie. 2011. “Heterogeneity in Returns to College Education: Selection Bias in Contemporary Taiwan.” Social Science Research, 40(3): 796-810. DOI.

Viruell-Fuentes, Edna, Jeff rey Morenoff , James S. House, and David R. Williams. 2011. “Language of Interview, Self-Rated Health, and the Other Latino Health Puzzle.” American Journal of Public Health, 101(7): 1306-1313. DOI.

Xie, Yu, and Emily Greenman. 2011. “Social context of assimilation: testing implications of segmented assimilation theory.” Social Science Research, 40(3): 965-984. DOI.

Yan, T., Frederick G. Conrad, Mick P. Couper, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. “Should I stay or should I go: The eff ects of progress feedback, promised task duration, and length of questionnaire on completing web surveys.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 23(2): 131-147. DOI.

Yang, Y., Ana Diez Roux, A.H. Auchincloss, D.A. Rodriguez, and Daniel Brown. 2011. “A Spatial Agent-Based Model for the Simulation of Adults’ Daily Walking Within a City.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(3): 353-361. DOI.

Hosting International Visitors

Due to recent staffi ng changes and shortages at the Interna onal Center, visa paperwork for hos ng an interna onal visitor must be submi ed to the IC at least 8 weeks before the intended arrival date.

Therefore, if you are planning to host an interna onal visitor, please let Laura Krinock know as soon as possible to avoid any delays and complica ons.

Laura will contact your visitor directly and compile all necessary paperwork.

If you have any ques ons or concerns, please contact Laura.

lkrinock@umich.edu 763-1414

FileMaker Training

Michael McIntyre, PSC’s database developer, will off er several lunch- me FileMaker database training sessions in the coming months, based on expressed community interest in the following:

• Naviga ng the databases, data entry, and viewing data

• Finding stuff , including complex and saved queries

• Expor ng data for manipula on and repor ng

• Sending data-snapshots and email from your database

• Increasing produc vity: ps and tricks

The fi rst hands-on session, held on July 28th, covered how to “fi nd stuff ” in our database system. This included basic search concepts, query structures, mul -criteria/mul -request queries, constraining and extending found sets, viewing indices, saving queries, and more.

Based on interest selec ons, McIntyre will organize more group or informal sessions; advanced training topics may arise from these ini al sessions as well.

The goal of this training is to enhance produc vity with PSC’s databases and garner specifi c requests for system improvements.

More informa on: psc-communica ons@umich.edu

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S TAFF NOTES

Design Contest: PSC’s 50th Anniversary

The Center will make t-shirts and mugs available through CafePress for alums and a endees of the 50th Anniversary Celebra on.

Send us your designs and/or taglines focused on demography, the 50th anniversary, popula on studies, etc.

The winner(s) will be immortalized in co on and ceramic and featured on CafePress.com and at the Celebra on in October 2011.

For more informa on or to enter the contest, contact NE Barr or psc-communica ons@umich.edu

PSC now has an annual subscrip on to ThinkStock, a site with more than a million royalty-free photos and illustra ons culled from a number of great image stock sites (Ge y, iStock, Jupiter).

So if you need images for any PSC project – print, websites, presenta ons, blogs, video produc on, html communiqués, whatever – contact NE Barr with the image or lightbox informa on.

Professional Images

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RECENT AWARDS Arland Thornton received the Irene B. Taeuber Award at the 2011 annual mee ngs of the Popula on Associa on of America. This biennial award, jointly sponsored by PAA and the Offi ce of Popula on Research, is given in recogni on of either an unusually original or important contribu on to the scien fi c study of popula on or an accumulated record of excep onally sound and innova ve research.

Ronald Inglehart and colleague Pippa Norris won the 2011 Johan Sky e Prize in poli cal science, awarded annually by Sweden’s Sky e Founda on at Uppsala University for the most valuable contribu on to poli cal science. In making the award, the commi ee cited Inglehart’s and Norris’s “innova ve ideas about the relevance and roots of poli cal culture in a global context, transcending previous mainstream approaches of research.”

Dave Harding is among three faculty researchers selected to receive the University of Michigan’s 2011 Henry Russel Award, one of the highest honors given to junior faculty. Harding’s research focuses on connec ons between social contexts and the reproduc on of inequality, especially the sources of poverty and disadvantage rooted in community characteris cs.

RECENT MEDIA APPEARANCES

“Why Black Women, Infants Lag In Birth Outcomes” – NPR, July 8, 2011. Arline Geronimus discusses how the cumula ve impact of coping with disadvantages causes birth outcomes for black women to deteriorate with maternal age.

“U.S. Will Have Minority Whites Sooner, Says Demographer” – NPR, June 27, 2011. Bill Frey’s recent analysis of census and demographic data shows that minori es now comprise a majority of babies in the U.S. Here Frey discusses what the trend means, and whether predic ons that the U.S. will become a “minority majority” by 2050 are too conserva ve.

“Degrees of Democracy” – The Economist, June 23, 2011. Social scien sts have long posited that educa on promotes pro-democra c and secular a tudes in less developed countries. Rebecca Thornton and colleagues Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel challenge this assump on in an April 2011 NBER paper.

“A world of 10 billion” – Macleans, June 15, 2011. David Lam provides examples of past adapta ons, par cularly food

produc on and educa on, that improved circumstances for the poor in the developing world during rapid popula on growth 1960-2000.

“More job seekers give up, reducing unemployment” – Associated Press, June 2, 2011. John Bound posits that the long-term decline in men’s labor force par cipa on is ed to decreasing demand for low-skill jobs, especially in

manufacturing.

“Is the U.S. entering a popula on slump?” – CNN, May 26, 2011. David Lam sees America’s slow down as a logical outcome of the baby boomers aging out of their childbearing years, and not cause for alarm.

“Extra Pounds Prove Costly to Women in the Workplace” – Live Science, May 23, 2011. Edward Norton says new fi ndings on employment disadvantages for overweight women (but not men) are not surprising since “there is something in Western society that seems to penalize women for being overweight.”

Persuasive Speech Sways Our Listeners – Science Daily, May 15, 2011. Robert Groves, Frederick Conrad, and colleagues examine how speech rates, fl uency, and pitch aff ect survey interviewers’ persuasiveness on the telephone.

“New Census Finds China’s Popula on Growth Has Slowed”- New York Times, April 28, 2011. Results of China’s 2010 census show a more urban, educated, older, and slower growing popula on. Yu Xie comments on how the increase in college-educated Chinese will enhance China’s posi on for interna onal economic growth.

“High-schoolers who work less likely to fi nish college” - USA Today, April 28, 2011. Jerald Bachman found that students who work more than 15 hours a week in high school tend to have lower rates of college comple on. Other variables linked to working longer hours may also be factors, says Bachman.

“Many Moms Have Kids With Diff erent Dads, U.S. Study Finds” - Bloomberg Businessweek, April 1, 2011. Cassandra Dorius analyzed data from nearly 4,000 women in the NLSY. She found that 28 percent of the women with two or more children had children by diff erent fathers. The rate was highest among black mothers (59 percent), followed by Hispanic mothers (35 percent) and white mothers (22 percent).

“The 10 most segregated urban areas in America” – Salon, March 29, 2011. Newly released Census 2010 data provide a sobering reminder of urban segrega on. Here, JP DeWi maps residen al segrega on for American Indians, Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and whites in the 10 most segregated U.S. metropolitan areas (> 500,000 popula on).

“Disabled, but Looking for Work” - New York Times, April 6, 2011. This piece looks at a new program to help steer disabled workers back into jobs, in part to cut rolls of those who receive disabled worker benefi ts. John Bound comments on the inability of many DI benefi ciaries to return to work and the need to avoid blaming the disabled for federal fi scal problems.

Marta Murray-Close, Predoctoral Trainee, 2004-2011 (Economics).

PSC Mentor: John Bound.

What’s Next? Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Meeta Pradhan, Predoctoral Trainee, 2005-2011 (Sociology).

PSC Mentor: Bill Axinn.

What’s next? Research Associate, Institute for Social and Environmental Research, Nepal, and independent consultant.

Annie Ro, Predoctoral Trainee, 2006-2011 (Public Health).

PSC Mentor: Arline Geronimus.

What’s Next? President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA School of Public Health.

Cecelia Tomori, Predoctoral Trainee, 2000-2011 (Anthropology).

PSC Mentor: Tom Fricke.

What’s Next? Applying to postdoctoral positions and lecturer positions in anthropology as well as in public health and

medical humanities programs in the Baltimore area.

Emily Weimers, PSID/ PSC NIA Postdoctoral Trainee, 2009-2011 (Economics).

PSC Mentor: Bob Schoeni.

What’s Next? Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Danya Keene, NIA Postdoctoral Trainee 2009-2011 (Public Health).

PSC mentors: David Harding and Jeff Morenoff, with Arline Geronimus.

What’s Next? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health

and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sasha Killewald, Predoctoral Trainee 2006-2011 (Public Policy & Sociology).

PSC Mentor: Yu Xie.

What’s Next? Human Services Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research.

Deborah Lowry, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010 (Sociology).

PSC Mentor: Al Hermalin.

What’s Next? Assistant Professor, University of Montevallo.

Kristin Meyer, Predoctoral Trainee, 2007-2011 (Public Health).

PSC mentors: Rachel Snow and Barbara Anderson.

What’s Next? On the market for a postdoctoral fellowship in the U.S. or abroad.

PSC Center News - Summer 2011 9

The Center said goodbye to the following trainees in 2010.

These former students and post-doctoral fellows have gone on to a variety of interesting positions and activities, as indicated below.

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