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01-01 Region, Poverty, Sibship, and Gender Inequality in Mexican Education: Will Targeted Welfare Policy Make a Difference for Girls? By: David Post
Published As: Post, D. (2001). "Region, Poverty, Sibship, and Gender Inequality in Mexican Education: Will Targeted Welfare Policy Make a Difference for Girls." Gender & Society 15(3):468-489. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
01-02 Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa By: David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe
Revised version of working paper 99-12
Published As: Shapiro, D. and B.O. Tambashe (2002). "Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Preliminary Evidence of a Three-Stage Process." Journal of African Policy Studies 8(2&3):103-127.
01-03 Social Inequalities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the French Male Population, 1980-1991 By: Emmanuelle Cambois, Jean-Marie Robine, and Mark D. Hayward
Published As: Cambois, E. , J.M. Robine and M.D. Hayward (2001). "Social Inequalities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the French Male Population, 1980-1991." Demography 38(4):513-524. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
01-04 The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early Life Social Conditions on Men's Mortality By: Mark Hayward, Bridget Gorman, and Kristen Robinson
Published As: Hayward, M.D. and B.K. Gorman (2004). "The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early-Life Social Conditions on Men's Mortality." Demography 41(1):87-107. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
01-05 Family Linguistic Culture and Social Reproduction: Verbal Skill from Parent to Child in the Preschool and School Years By: George Farkas and Kurt Beron
Published As: Farkas, G. and K.J. Beron (2004). "The Detailed Age Trajectory of Oral Vocabulary Knowledge: Differences by Class and Race." Social Science Research 33(3):464-497. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
01-06 Nonresponse in Maternal-Infant Health Surveys of "Rare" and "Not-So-Rare" Latino Populations: Findings from a Study of Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans By: R.S. Oropesa and Nancy S. Landale
Published As: Oropesa, R.S. and N.S. Landale (2002). "Nonresponse in Follow-Back Surveys of Ethnic Minority Groups: An Analysis of the Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study." Maternal and Child Health Journal 6(1):49-58. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
01-07 Estimating Multi-Level Discrete-Time Hazard Models Using Cross-Sectional Data: Neighborhood Effects on the Onset of Adolescent Cigarette Use By: Sean F. Reardon, Robert Brennan and Stephen L. Buka
Published As: Reardon, S.F. , R.T. Brennan and S.L. Buka (2002). "Estimating Multi-Level Discrete-Time Hazard Models Using Cross-Sectional Data: Neighborhood Effects on the Onset of Adolescent Cigarette Use." Multivariate Behavioral Research 37(3):297-330. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|
01-08 Fertility in the Democratic Republic of Congo By: David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe
Published As: Shapiro, D. and B.O. Tambashe (2007). "Fertility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Population Bulletin of the United Nations 46/47:239-250.
01-09 Revisiting the Structure of American Households: 1985-2000 By: Qiuyan Wang
01-10 Labor Force Transitions of Men and Women in the United States: 1980-2000 By: Qiuyan Wang and Jill Findeis
01-11 An International Comparison of the Effects of Single-Parent Family on Math and Science Achievement By: Suet-ling Pong, Jaap Dronkers, and Gillian Hampden-Thompson
Please see revised version: working paper 02-03
01-12 Changing Household Income Inequality Across U.S. Counties, 1980 to 1990 By: Diane K. McLaughlin, Mark S. Handcock, and Joseph Kodamanchaly
01-13 A Declining Middle? Explaining Shifts Towards the Upper and Lower Ends of the Household Income Distribution in the U.S., 1980 to 1990 By: Diane K. McLaughlin, Mark S. Handcock, and Joseph Kodamanchaly
