PSC Working Paper Series
The Population Studies Center (PSC) Working Paper Series is open to PSC research associates. It serves as an outlet for pre-prints, for papers under journal review, and for background papers (e.g., for technical materials for which journals lack space). The series will also entertain submissions from students affiliated with PSC research associates. In such cases, the submission should be accompanied by a letter from a PSC research associate stating that she or he has read the paper, that it conforms to high professional standards, and that she or he wishes to sponsor its appearance in the series. Papers can be submitted to psc_library@mailman.ssc.upenn.edu.
The PSC is also home to the Population Aging Research Center (PARC) which also has a working paper series available, the PARC Working Paper Series.
Papers from 2012
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, and Cezar Santos
Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools, Hyunjoon Park, Jere R. Behrman, and Jaesung Choi
Papers from 2011
Do More-Schooled Women have Fewer Children and Delay Childbearing? Evidence from a Sample of U.S. Twins, Vikesh Amin and Jere R. Behrman
HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behavior in Malawi, Adeline Delavande and Hans-Peter Kohler
Estimating Smoking-attributable Mortality in the United States, Andrew Fenelon and Samuel H. Preston
From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: A Macroeconomic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization, Jesus Fernández-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood, and Nezih Guner
International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years, Asma Hyder and Jere R. Behrman
Journal Rankings in Sociology: Using the H Index with Google Scholar, Jerry A. Jacobs
Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi, Iliana V. Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler, Philip Anglewicz, and Jere R. Behrman
High Development and Fertility: Fertility at Older Reproductive Ages and Gender Equality Explain the Positive Link, Mikko Myrskylä, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Francesco Billari
Is the High Level of Obesity in the United States Related to Its Low Life Expectancy?, Samuel H. Preston and Andrew Stokes
Papers from 2010
Out of Sync? Demographic and Other Social Science Research on Health Conditions in Developing Countries, Jere R. Behrman, Julia A. Behrman, and Nykia M. Perez
Perception of HIV risk and the quantity and quality of children: The case of rural Malawi, Ruben Castro, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Social Science Methods for Twins Data: Integrating Causality, Endowments and Heritability, Hans-Peter Kohler, Jere R. Behrman, and Jason Schnittker
Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts “Leveled the Field” for African American Head Coach Candidates?, Janice F. Madden and Matthew Ruther
How High is Hispanic/Mexican Fertility in the U.S.? Immigration and Tempo Considerations, Emilio A. Parrado
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports, Betsey Stevenson
Papers from 2009
Social Change: The Sexual Revolution, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner
US Mortality in an International Context: Age Variations, Jessica Y. Ho and Samuel H. Preston
Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?, Samuel H. Preston and Jessica Y. Ho
The US Health Care System and Lagging Life Expectancy: A Case Study, Samuel Preston and Jessica Y. Ho
Double Sample to Minimize Bias Due to Non-response in a Mail Survey, Herbert L. Smith
Papers from 2008
Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner
Papers from 2007
A New Method for Attributing Changes in Life Expectancy to Various Causes of Death, with Application to the United States, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez and Samuel Preston
The Marital Process and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi, Shelley Clark, Michelle Poulin, and Hans-Peter Kohler
The Likoma Network Study: Context, Data Collection and Initial Results, Stephane Helleringer, Hans-Peter Kohler, Agnes Chimbiri, Praise Chatonda, and James Mkandawire
Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women's Labor Supply Revisited, Betsey Stevenson
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
Papers from 2006
What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala, Jere R. Behrman, John F. Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, and Aryeh D. Stein
Black-White Differentials in Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States during the 1980s: The Role of Medical Care and Health Behaviors, Irma T. Elo and Greg L. Drevenstedt
The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults, John A. Maluccio, John F. Hoddinott, Jere R. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Aryeh D. Stein
Mortality of American Troops in Iraq, Samuel H. Preston and Emily Buzzell