Poster Session Winners 2008

Photos of 2008 Poster Session Winners

Session I

• Take Me Home: Determinants of Return Migration among Later Life Immigrants in Germany • Jenjira Yahirun, University of California, Los Angeles
• Economic Growth in Ghana and the Effects of Mother’s Sector of Employment on Trends in Childhood Malnutrition • Roland Pongou, Brown University; Jemima A. Frimpong, University of Pennsylvania; Orly Clerge, Brown University
• Opting-Out Occupationally? US Women’s Post-Birth Occupational Behavior • Rachel S. Robinson, American University
• Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Self-Evaluations and the Likelihood of Adolescent Pregnancy • Sarah M. Kendig, University of Maryland

Session II

• The Final Cut: Assessing Gender Balance Preferences and Family Size Expectations for Men Using Vasectomy Data • Sarah Zureick, University of California, Berkeley
• Comparing Rates of Marriage and Divorce in Civilian, Military, and Veteran Populations • Michael S. Pollard, RAND; Benjamin Karney, University of California, Los Angeles; David Loughran, RAND
• Differential Health Insurance Coverage within Families: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey • Diane S. Shinberg, University of Memphis
• Alcohol Use Trajectories among Adults in an Urban Area after a Disaster: Evidence from a Population-Based Cohort Study • Magdalena Cerda, University of Michigan; David Vlahov, The New York Academy of Medicine
• HIV Testing Behaviors of Female Sex Workers and Policemen in Kenya • Daphne Lofquist, Bowling Green State University

Session III

• Cohabiting Men’s Views of Abortion and Perceived Roles in Fertility Decision Making • Amanda J. Miller, Ohio State University
• Obesity and Women’s Fertility Over the Life Course • Michelle Frisco, Pennsylvania State University; Kristin Burnett, Pennsylvania State University
• Mother’s Earnings and her Children’s Educational Attainment • Emily P. Nell, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Transition to First Intercourse among Adolescents: The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status • Naomi J. Spence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Karin Brewster, Florida State University

Session IV

• Do Gays and Lesbians Want Children?: Childbearing Intentions and Attitudes towards Children among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Men and Women in the United States • Nola du Toit, Bowling Green State University
• Protecting Populations: Using Environmental Variables to Predict Cholera in Bangladesh and Vietnam • Caryl Feldacker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Veronica Escamilla, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Multiple Levels of Social Disadvantage and its Links to Obesity Risk in Adolescence and Young Adulthood • Hedwig Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Lack of Marriageable Men and Women: A Qualitative Assessment of a Marriage Initiative • Deanna Trella, Bowling Green State University; Heidi Lyons, Bowling Green State University; Nola du Toit, Bowling Green State University
• Religious Affiliation and Indigenous Fertility in Chiapas, Mexico • Eunice D. Vargas Valle, University of Texas at Austin

Session V

• Explaining Marriage Payments in the MHSS Survey • Rania Salem, Princeton University
• Rainfall Variations and Child Mortality in Sahelian Region: Results from a Comparative Analysis in Burkina Faso And Mali • Sabine J.F. Henry, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix , Belgium; Stéphanie Dos Santos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
• Differences in Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and Depression in Korean Adult Women: The Roles of Body Mass Index and Body Weight Perception • Dong-Sik Kim, Seoul National University; Youngtae Cho, Seoul National University;Sung-Il Cho, Seoul National University
• Moving up or Moving on: The Role of Parental Aspirations to Migrate in their Children’s Education in Mexico • Mathew Creighton, University of Pennsylvania
• The Prevalence of Mixed Citizenship Status Households among Older Mexican Americans • Jeffrey A. Burr, University of Massachusetts at Boston; Jan Mutchler, University of Massachusetts at Boston; Kerstin Gerst, University of Massachusetts at Boston

Session VI

• Impact of Historical Events on Patterns In U.S. Immigration and Integration • Sara Speckhard, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Patterns of Risk Behavior Change from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood and Implications for Sexually Transmitted Infections • Carolyn Tucker Halpern, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Bonita Iritani, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; Denise Hallfors, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; Abigail Haydon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Household Labor Supply and Nutrition • Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Johns Hopkins University
• Adulthood: To Be or not To Be, According to the SLID • Amélie A. Gagnon, Université de Montréal
• Co-Parenting in Cohabiting and Married Couples • Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott, Pennsylvania State University

Session VII

• Labor Migration, Spousal Communication and HIV/STD Risk Perceptions and Prevention • Boaventura Cau, Arizona State University
• Absolute Versus Relative Earnings and Cohabiting Couples’ Transition to Marriage • Jennifer Holland, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Roomers and Boarders: 1880-2005 • Melissa Scopilliti, University of Maryland; Martin O’Connell, U.S. Census Bureau
• A Decomposition of Gender Differences in Functional Health and Mortality among Older Adults in Beijing • Toshiko Kaneda, Population Reference Bureau (PRB); Xianghua Fang, Beijing Municipal Network for Health & Care of the Elderly; Zhe Tang, Beijing Municipal Network for Health & Care of the Elderly
• Adjusting for Adjustment: The Impacts of Internal Migrant Assimilation, Adaptation, Disruption and Selection in a Context of Regional Variation, The Case of Russia • Ashton M. Verdery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill