Poster Session 3: Work, Education, Welfare, Parenting and Children

Thursday, May 1 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom A 3rd Floor

1.	The Demographic, Socioeconomic and Cultural Determinants of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso  •   Younoussi Zourkaleini, University of Ouagadougou and Université de Montréal

2.	Parental Survival and Living Arrangements of Children in Malawi  •   Henry V. Doctor, University of Pennsylvania

3.	Demographic Effects of Poverty: Findings from the Participatory Poverty Assessment of Thailand  •   Sirirat Taneerananon, Prince of Songkla University

4.	The Role of Grandmothers in Low-Income Hispanic Families  •   Paula Fomby, Johns Hopkins University

5.	Children's Access to Coresident Grandparenting in Contemporary Pacific Societies and Its Impact on Educational Attainment  •   Sela Panapasa, University of Michigan; Timoci Bainimarama, Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics; Vasemaca Lewai, Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics

6.	Sons and Daughters: Father’s Involvement and Marital Stability  •   Michael S. Pollard, Duke University

7.	Quality of Family Welfare Services in Four Selected States of India: From Exit Eligible Women's Perpsective  •   Dibya Mahanta, Utkal University

8.	Social Connections of Adolescents in Single Father Families  •   Susan Jekielek, Child Trends; Brett Brown, Child Trends; Berkeley Smith, Child Trends

10.	The American Community Survey: A Tool for Describing the Family and Household Experiences of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities  •   Robin T. Levine, U.S. Census Bureau

11.	The Economic Wellbeing of Multi-Generational Households with Children: Measurement Issues and Policy Implications  •   Pamela Davidson, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts; Tamara Ohler, University of Massachusetts

12.	What about the Children? Indicators from Census Supplementary Surveys Related to PRWORA and TANF Evaluation Measures: 2000-2001  •   Jane L. Dye, U.S. Census Bureau; Robin T. Levine, U.S. Census Bureau

13.	Impact of Family, School and Classroom Factors on Children's Achievement  •   Annie Georges, Columbia University

14.	Self-Control and Contextual Influences: The Roles of Familial and Kindergarten Experiences  •   Christine P. Li-Grining, Northwestern University

15.	Changes in the Lives of U.S. Children: 1990-2000  •   Kristin Smith, U.S. Census Bureau; Robert Kominski, U.S. Census Bureau; Julia V. Overturf, U.S. Census Bureau

16.	Assessing Gilligan versus Sommers: Gender-Specific Trends in Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States, 1985 - 1999  •   Sarah Meadows, Duke University; Vicki Lamb, Duke University

17.	School Readiness Skills of Biracial Children: Findings from the ECLS-K  •   Nicholas Zill, Westat, Inc.

18.	A Sociodemographic Risk Index?  •   Kristin Moore, Child Trends; Sharon Vandivere, Child Trends; Zakia Redd, Child Trends

19.	The Role of Mothers' Preferences in Children's Schooling Outcomes: Allocations under Varied Household Structures  •   Joyce J. Chen, Harvard University

20.	Educational Support and Children’s Living Arrangements over the Life Course  •   Sangeetha Madhavan, University of the Witwatersrand

21.	Assessing the Links between Emotional and Behavioral School Engagement and Academic Performance among High School Adolescents  •   Frank Avenilla, Pennsylvania State University

22.	Protecting Youth: Countering Risk Behaviour with Universal Protective Factors  •   Manirul I. Khan, Mahidol University; Khurshid K. Talukder, Institute of Child and Mother Health; Sabina Faiz Rashid, BRAC; AMR Mushtaque Chowdhury, BRAC; Shamim H. Talukder, Institute of Child and Mother Health

23.	Improving the Prediction of Risk Behaviors of Filipino Adolescents: Beyond Demographic, Socioeconomic and Family Structure Factors  •   Corazon M. Raymundo, University of the Philippines

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Explaining Patterns of Adolescent Drug Use and Sexual Behaviors: The Role of Ethnicity, Nativity, and Context  •   Jon Hussey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Denise Hallfors, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; Hyunsan Cho, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; Bonita Iritani, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; Martha Waller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Parenting Style and Sexual Risk-Taking among Adolescents  •   Anne K. Driscoll, University of California, Davis; Stephen T. Russell, University of California, Davis; Lisa J. Crockett, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Brandy A. Randall, North Dakota State University

26.	Parenting Patterns and Adolescents' Avoidance of Risky Behaviors  •   Sharon Vandivere, Child Trends

27.	Family Influences on the Risk Behaviors of Filipino Adolescents  •   Grace T. Cruz, University of the Philippines

28.	Adolescent Behavior and Family Relationships  •   Julia V. Overturf, U.S. Census Bureau; Barbara Downs, U.S. Census Bureau

29.	Parent and Youth Perceptions of Vulnerability: Does Correspondence Affect Behavior?  •   John Schneider, University of Chicago

30.	School Dropout, Adolescent Work and Mother's Work in Developing Countries: The Mexican Case  •   Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo, El Colegio de México

31.	Bilingual Education and Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Indigenous Children in Mexico  •   Susan Parker, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Graciela M. Teruel, Universidad Iberoamericana

32.	Poverty in Mexico, 1990-2020  •   James Pick, University of Redlands; Maria-Antonieta Rebeil, Universidad Iberoamericana

33.	The Role of Information in Postsecondary Enrollment Outcomes  •   Eric Grodsky, University of California, Davis; Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University

34.	The Effect of Grade Repetition on Returns to Schooling in Brazil  •   Christopher E. Dunn, University of Michigan

35.	Positive Outcomes from Poor Starts: Predictors of Dropping Back In  •   Christopher Jepsen, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC); Laura Hill, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC); Deborah S. Reed, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

36.	Are Public Basic Education Mexican Teachers Negatively Selected?  •   Liliana Meza, Universidad Iberoamericana; Carla Pederzini, Universidad Iberoamericana

37.	The Role of Religiosity in Educational Attainment: The Case of Fundamentalist Protestants in the United States  •   Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago

38.	Access to Education: Implications of Alternative Measures of Access Derived from Quantitative and Qualitative Data  •   Marya R. Sosulski, University of Wisconsin at Madison

39.	Gender Differentials in Education in India  •   Sonya Rastogi, University of Maryland

40.	Poverty or Ethnicity? Differences in Schooling of Rural Youths in Yucatan Peninsula  •   Cecilia A. Rabell, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico; Marta Mier-y-Teran, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico

41.	The Earnings Gap by Occupation and Educational Attainment: Findings from Census 2000  •   Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau; Nikki L. Graf, U.S. Census Bureau; Kurt J. Bauman, U.S. Census Bureau

42.	Racial Wage Inequality: Job Composition Effects across U.S. Labor Markets  •   Philip N. Cohen, University of California, Irvine; Matt Huffman, University of California, Irvine

43.	Gender Differences in Becoming Self-Employed in Taiwan and Korea  •   Fengbin Chang, University of Chicago

44.	Trends in Women’s Self-Employment Participation, 1940-1990  •   Michelle Budig, University of Massachusetts

45.	Occupational Sex-Typing and Employment Transitions among Women and Men  •   Hyunjoo Min, Cornell University; Marin Clarkberg, Cornell University

46.	Migration Histories and Occupational Achievement  •   Clara H. Mulder, University of Amsterdam; Maarten van Ham, University of Amsterdam

47.	On Race and U.S. Labor Force Growth  •   Quincy Stewart, Indiana University

48.	The Enlistment, Enrollment and Employment Decisions of Youth: 1973-2001  •   Meredith A. Kleykamp, Princeton University

49.	Determinants of Female Work Participation in India  •   Jalandhar Pradhan, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

50.	Institutionalizing Women's Employment: Understanding Cross-National Variation in Women's Work  •   Becky Pettit, University of Washington; Jennifer L. Hook, University of Washington

51.	Patterns and Predictors of Women's Employment during Early Parenthood: An Application of the Group-Based Trajectory Method  •   Kathryn Hynes, Cornell University

52.	The Impact of Female Headship on Working Daughters' Occupational Attainment: A Re-Examination of the Disadvantage Hypothesis  •   Leanna M. Mellott, Ohio State University; Sharon Sassler, Ohio State University

53.	Effects of Spatial Segregation and Local Labor Markets on the Income and Employment Status of Black and White South Africans  •   Troy A. Powell, Duke University

54.	A Dynamic Analysis of Unemployment and Household Economic Well-Being in Korea  •   David C. Ribar, George Washington University; Sung Un Kim, George Washington University; Maria Laura Di Tommaso, University of Turin

55.	Parenting across State Lines: Effect of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act  •   Yunhee Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andrea H. Beller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

56.	Child Support Enforcement and Unmmarried Fathers’ Participation in the Underground Economy  •   Lauren Rich, University of Chicago; Qin Gao, Columbia University

57.	Do Welfare Sanctions Work? Measuring the Impacts of Sanctions on Economic Well-Being of Sanctioned TANF Recipients  •   Chi-Fang Wu, University of Wisconsin at Madison

58.	The Effect of Work Transitions on Depression among Current and Former Welfare Recipients  •   Lisa M. Altenbernd, Northwestern University; Dan A. Lewis, Northwestern University

59.	Work Schedule Problems and Parenting Stress among Unmarried Welfare Mothers with Very Young Children  •   Eunjeong Kim, University of Texas at Austin; Yolanda C. Padilla, University of Texas at Austin; Seung-Eun Song, University of Texas at Austin

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