The Population Center Working Papers (PSC/PARC) series contains papers by researchers at the PSC/PARC. 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) written by PSC/PARC Research Associates. The series also publishes submissions from students affiliated with Research Associates at the PSC/PARC with Research Associate sponsorship. The PSC/PARC series combines works previously published in the Population Studies Center Working Paper Series and the Population Aging Research Center Working Paper Series and also includes papers from the Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers Series. Papers can be submitted by emailing: psc-library@pop.upenn.edu.

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Papers from 2017

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Cohort Profile: The Migration and Health in Malawi (MHM) Study, Philip Anglewicz, Mark VanLandingham, Lucinda Manda-Taylor, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF, Naomi Gershoni and Corinne Low

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Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments, Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low

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Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data, Jere R. Behrman, Dante Contreras, Isidora Palma, and Esteban Puentes

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Recent Changes in US Mortality: Continued Deterioration Relative to Peers, Yana Vierboom and Samuel Preston

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Up, Down and Reciprocal: The Dynamics of Intergenerational Transfers, Family Structure and Health in a Low-Income Context, Collin F. Payne, Luca Maria Pesando, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States, Yana Vierboom

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Health and Mortality Patterns Among Migrants in France, Myriam Khlat and Michel Guillot

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The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi, Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michéle Tertilt

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Family Economics Writ Large, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Papers from 2016

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Cognitive Health among Older Adults: Evidence from Rural Sub-Saharan Africa, Collin F. Payne, Iliana V. Kohler, Chiwoza Bandawe, Kathy A. Lawler, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Limited Common Origins of Multiple Adult Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence from U.S. Twins, Nikkil Sudharsanan, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Effects of Birth Control Policies on Women’s Age at First Birth in China, Menghan Zhao and Hans-Peter Kohler

Papers from 2015

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Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows, Laurent Gobillon and Matthieu Solignac

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Africans in the American Labor Market, Irma T. Elo, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Romeo Gansey, and Duncan Thomas

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It is Lower Than You Think it is: Recent Total Fertility Rates in Brazil and Possibly Other Latin American Countries, Helena Cruz Castanheira and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Demographic Transition Revisited: Low Fertility, Socioeconomic Development, and Gender Equity, Thomas M. Anderson and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Variance Estimation for a Complex Life Table Quantity: Disease-free Life Expectancy, Ezra Fishman

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The Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income High HIV-Prevalence Context, Iliana V. Kohler, Collin F. Payne, Chiwoza Bandawe, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Africans in the American Labor Market, Irma T. Elo Professor, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas, and Romeo Gansey

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Lifetime risk of dementia in the United States, Ezra Fishman

Papers from 2014

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The Consequences of Abortion and Contraception Policies on Young Women's Reproductive Choices, Schooling and Labor Supply, Diego Amador

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Growing Educational Differentials in the Retreat from Marriage among Korean Men, Hyunjoon Park and Jae Kyung Lee

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Lifetime Probability of Developing Diabetes in the United States, Samuel Preston, Ezra Fishman, and Andrew Stokes

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The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi, Victoria Baranov and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, and Cezar Santos

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Natural Symptoms? The Intersection of Social, Biological, and Genetic Determinants of Depression in Later Life, Jason Schnittker

Papers from 2013

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Schooling has Smaller or Insignificant Effects on Adult Health in the US than Suggested by Cross-Sectional Associations: New Estimates Using Relatively Large Samples of Identical Twins, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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American Studies: A Case Study of Interdisciplinarity, Jerry A. Jacobs

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The Contribution of Sociology to the Emergence of Applied and Pre-professional College Majors, Jerry A. Jacobs

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Receptivity Curves: Educational Research and the Flow of Ideas: Expanded Version, Jerry A. Jacobs

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Narratives of Death in the Time of AIDS in Rural Malawi, Adam Ashforth and Susan C. Watkins

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Cohort Profile: The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), HANS-PETER KOHLER, Susan C. Watkins, Jere R. Behrman, Philip Anglewicz, Iliana V. Kohler, Peter Fleming, Rebecca L. Thornton, James Mkandawire, Linda Kalilani-Phiri, Hastings Honde, Augustine Hawara, Ben Chilima, Chiwoza Bandawe, Victor Mwapasa, and MLSFH Study Team

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Discrete Games in Endogenous Networks: Theory and Policy, Anton Badev

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Eliciting Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation, Flávio Cunha, Irma T. Elo, and Jennifer F. Culhane

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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michèle Tertilt

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The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, Condom Use with Spouses, Theresa M. Fedor, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jere R. Behrman

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The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research, Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer, Jere R. Behrman, and Susan C. Watkins

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The Effects of Child-Bearing Policies in Remarriages: Evidence from China, Hanming Fang and Wanchuan Lin

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The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S., Emin Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood

Papers from 2012

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La causalité en sociologie et démographie. Retour sur le principe de l’action humaine, Herbert L. Smith

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Marriage as a Mechanism: Women’s Education and Wealth in Malawi, Sarah Spell, Philip Anglewicz, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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The Indirect Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy, Victoria Baranov, Daniel Bennett, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Education Fever and the East Asian Fertility Puzzle: A Case Study of Low Fertility in South Korea, Thomas M. Anderson and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Semiparametric Bayesian Modeling of Income Volatility Heterogeneity, Shane T. Jensen and Stephen H. Shore

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Interdisciplinarity in Recently Founded Academic Journals, Jerry A. Jacobs and Rebecca Henderson

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Evaluating Health and Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Minimally Invasive Collection of Plasma in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), Iliana V. Kohler, Philip Anglewicz, Hans-Peter Kohler, John F. McCabe, Ben Chilima, and Beth J. Soldo

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Identifying Idiosyncratic Career Taste and Skill with Income Risk, Stephen H. Shore, Daniel Barth, and Shane T. Jensen

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Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization: Evidence from Medigap Coverage, Daniel W. Sacks

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Performance-Support Bias and the Gender Pay Gap among Stockbrokers, Janice F. Madden

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Copenhagen Consensus 2012: Challenge Paper on "Population Growth", Hans-Peter Kohler

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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

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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

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The Impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Health and Related Outcomes for the Aging in Mexico, Jere R. Behrman and Susan W. Parker

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First-Round Impacts of the 2008 Chilean Pension System Reform, Jere R. Behrman, Maria Cecilia Calderon, Olivia Mitchell, Javiera Vasquez, and David Bravo

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Do More-Schooled Women have Fewer Children and Delay Childbearing? Evidence from a Sample of U.S. Twins, Vikesh Amin and Jere R. Behrman

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High Development and Fertility: Fertility at Older Reproductive Ages and Gender Equality Explain the Positive Link, Mikko Myrskylä, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Francesco Billari

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Journal Rankings in Sociology: Using the H Index with Google Scholar, Jerry A. Jacobs

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HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behavior in Malawi, Adeline Delavande and Hans-Peter Kohler

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Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi, Iliana V. Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler, Philip Anglewicz, and Jere R. Behrman

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Estimating Smoking-attributable Mortality in the United States, Andrew Fenelon and Samuel H. Preston

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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years, Asma Hyder and Jere R. Behrman

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Is the High Level of Obesity in the United States Related to Its Low Life Expectancy?, Samuel H. Preston and Andrew Stokes

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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

Papers from 2010

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Financial Literacy, Schooling, and Wealth Accumulation, Jere R. Behrman, Olivia S. Mitchell, Cindy Soo, and David Bravo

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Early Life Conditions and Cause-Specific Mortality in Finland, Irma T. Elo, Pekka Martikainen, and Mikko Myrskylä

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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility, Adam Isen and Betsey Stevenson

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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications, J. Trent Alexander, Michael Davern, and Betsey Stevenson

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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

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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

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Social Science Methods for Twins Data: Integrating Causality, Endowments and Heritability, Hans-Peter Kohler, Jere R. Behrman, and Jason Schnittker

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Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts “Leveled the Field” for African American Head Coach Candidates?, Janice F. Madden and Matthew Ruther

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How High is Hispanic/Mexican Fertility in the U.S.? Immigration and Tempo Considerations, Emilio A. Parrado

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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports, Betsey Stevenson

Papers from 2009

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Personal Attributes and the Financial Well-Being of Older Adults: The Effects of Control Beliefs, Karen A. Zurlo

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Pension Payouts in Chile: Past, Present, and Future Prospects, Olivia S. Mitchell and Jose Ruiz

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Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets, Motohiro Yogo

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US Mortality in an International Context: Age Variations, Jessica Y. Ho and Samuel H. Preston

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Double Sample to Minimize Bias Due to Non-response in a Mail Survey, Herbert L. Smith

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Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?, Samuel H. Preston and Jessica Y. Ho

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Social Change: The Sexual Revolution, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

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The US Health Care System and Lagging Life Expectancy: A Case Study, Samuel Preston and Jessica Y. Ho

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Natural Selection in a Contemporary Human Population, Douglas Ewbank

Papers from 2008

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Reforms to an Individual Account Pension System and their Effects on Work and Contribution Decisions: The Case of Chile, Viviana Vélez-Grajales

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How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi, Aureo de Paula, Gil Shapira, and Petra Todd

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How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile, David Bravo, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, and Petra E. Todd

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The Effects of Early Childhood Diseases on Young Adult Health in Guatemala, Rachel Margolis

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The Dynamics of Lifecycle Investing in 401(k) Plans, Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary Mottola, Stephen Utkus, and Takeshi Yamaguchi

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Poverty and Proximate Barriers to Learning: Vision Deficiencies, Vision Correction and Educational Outcomes in Rural Northwest China, Emily Hannum and Yuping Zhang

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Health of Native-born and Foreign-born Black Residents in the United States: Evidence from the 2000 Census of Population and the National Health Interview Survey, Irma Elo, Neil Mehta, and Cheng Huang

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Mate Availability and Unmarried Parent Relationships, Kristen Harknett

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The More the Better? Characteristics and Efficiency of 401(k) Investment Menus, Ning Tang

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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

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Educational differences in all-cause mortality Evidence from Bulgaria, Finland and the United States, Iliana Kohler, Pekka Martikainen, Kirsten P. Smith, and Irma T. Elo

Papers from 2007

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The Likoma Network Study: Context, Data Collection and Initial Results, Stephane Helleringer, Hans-Peter Kohler, Agnes Chimbiri, Praise Chatonda, and James Mkandawire

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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

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Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women's Labor Supply Revisited, Betsey Stevenson

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The Marital Process and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi, Shelley Clark, Michelle Poulin, and Hans-Peter Kohler

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The Behavioral Economics of Altruism, Reciprocity, and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, Li-wei Chao and Hans-Peter Kohler

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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