Papers from 2018
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-generational Investment, Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn
American Kinship Reconsidered, Frank F. Furstenberg
Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Exposure to Drought in Utero on Newborn Size: Evidence from a Retrospective Cohort Study in Malawi, Thokozani Hanjahanja-Phiri
Aging, Disability and Disease in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Aging, Depression, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disabilities in South Africa, Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Household Determinants of Teen Marriage and Childbearing: Sister Effects Across Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Luca Maria Pesando and Alejandra Abufhele
Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development, Luca Maria Pesando, Andrés F. Castro, Liliana Andriano, Julia A. Behrman, Francesco Billari, Christiaan Monden, Frank Furstenberg, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in India, Pratima Yadav, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Papers from 2017
Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data, Jere R. Behrman, Dante Contreras, Isidora Palma, and Esteban Puentes
The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF, Naomi Gershoni and Corinne Low
Family Economics Writ Large, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Guillaume Vandenbroucke
The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi, Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michéle Tertilt
Health and Mortality Patterns Among Migrants in France, Myriam Khlat and Michel Guillot
Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments, Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low
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
The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States, Yana Vierboom
Recent Changes in US Mortality: Continued Deterioration Relative to Peers, Yana Vierboom and Samuel Preston
Papers from 2016
School violence in China: A multi-level analysis of student victimization in rural middle schools, Jennifer Adams and Emily C. Hannum
Essays on aging-related disease in the U.S. population, Ezra Fishman
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
Limited Common Origins of Multiple Adult Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence from U.S. Twins, Nikkil Sudharsanan, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Effects of Birth Control Policies on Women’s Age at First Birth in China, Menghan Zhao and Hans-Peter Kohler
Submissions from 2015
Three essays on the social, economic, and demographic causes and consequences of low fertility, Thomas Markley Anderson
Assessing the impacts of smoking and obesity on mortality and morbidity in the United States, Bochen Cao
It’s Not Just about the Money: Gender and Youth Migration from Rural China, Yilin Chiang, Emily C. Hannum, and Grace Kao
Interrelations between religiosity, mental health, and children, Stephen Cranney
Social and demographic determinants of low fertility in Brazil, Helena Cruz Castanheira
Africans in the American Labor Market, Irma T. Elo Professor, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas, and Romeo Gansey
Lifetime risk of dementia in the United States, Ezra Fishman
Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentive: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China, Li Han
Child labour and academic achievement: Evidence from Gansu Province in China, Huajing He
The demography of modern social transformations, Arun S Hendi
Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in Rural China: Cultivating dragons and phoenixes, Peggy Kong
Sibling Rivalry: Ability and Intrahousehold Allocation in Gansu Province, China, Jessica Leight
The Impact of Early Childhood Rainfall Shocks on the Evolution of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills, Jessica Leight, Paul Glewwe, and Albert Park
Maternal bargaining power, parental compensation and non-cognitive skills in rural China, Jessica Leight and Elaine Liu
Family determinants of early childhood well-being: Three studies from Chile, Daniela Marshall
Health and aging in low-resource contexts: Three essays on healthy life expectancy in the developing world, Collin Frederick Payne
Professional Learning Communities and the Diffusion of Pedagogical Innovation in the Chinese Education System, Tanja Sargent
Social and demographic consequences of health insurance, Heeju Sohn
Three essays on the impact of behavioral risk factors on health and mortality in the United States, Christopher J Tencza
Religion and son preference in India and Bangladesh: Three essays on comparing Hindus and Muslims on son preference and sex differentials in child health, Abhijit Visaria
Working Papers from 2014
Early-Childhood Growth Faltering, Post-Infancy Recovery and Educational Outcomes in Late Childhood: Evidence from Vietnam, Jere R. Behrman and Le Thuc Duc
Does Mother’s Schooling Matter Most in Rural Bangladesh? Re-contextualizing an Old Debate in a New Era of School Reform, Julia Andrea Behrman
The Effect of Increased Primary Schooling on Adult Women's HIV Status in Malawi and Uganda: Universal Primary Education as a Natural Experiment, Julia Andrea Behrman
Changes in HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in Malawi, Theresa M Fedor
Height and Calories in Early Childhood, Andrew S. Griffen
Linguistic Capital, Information Access and Economic Opportunity among Rural Young Adults in Western China*, Emily C. Hannum and Huayu Sebastian Cherng
Social networks, social support, and mental health in cross-national comparative perspective, Ning Hsieh
Linkages among fertility, migration, and aging in India, Apoorva Jadhav
Saving Brains: Literature review of reproductive, neonatal, child and maternal health and nutrition Interventions to mitigate basic risk factors to promote child development, Carol Levin and Elizabeth Brouwer
Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India, Pushkar Maitra and Subha Mani
Impact of the NREGS on Schooling and Intellectual Human Capital, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Shaikh Galab, and Prudhvikar Reddy
Measuring racial self-identification over the life course in Brazil, 1940-2013, Vitor Miranda
Review of Maternal Effects on Early Childhood Stunting, Thokozani Phiri
Home environment and educational transitions on the path to college in rural northwest China, Tanja Sargent, Peggy Kong, and Yuping Zhang
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries, Norbert Schady, Jere R. Behrman, Maria Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson, and Renos Vakis
Natural Symptoms? The Intersection of Social, Biological, and Genetic Determinants of Depression in Later Life, Jason Schnittker
Social determinants and international comparisons of health and mortality, Andrew Currier Stokes
Gender targeting of unconditional income transfers and child nutritional status: Experimental evidence from the Bolivian Amazon, Eduardo Undurraga, Ariela Zycherman, Julie Yiu, Jere R. Behrman, William R. Leonard, and Ricardo A. Godoy
Reproductive health disparities in Latin America, Emily Vala-Haynes
Educational expectations, school experiences and academic achievements: A longitudinal examination, Yuping Zhang
Submissions from 2013
Influences on children's human capital in rural Malawi: Three essays, Shirley Afua Appiah-Yeboah
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Young Lives, Jere R. Behrman, Benjamin T. Crookston, Kirk Dearden, Le Thuc Duc, Lia C. H. Fernald, Subha Mani, Whitney Schott, and Aryeh D. Stein
What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Influences 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
Essays on family structure and marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sophia Y Chae
Community Poverty, Industrialization, and Educational Gender Gaps in Rural China, Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng and Emily C. Hannum
Sociological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Education in China: Views from Chinese and English Literatures, Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Emily C. Hannum, and Chunping Lu
It's Not Just About the Money: Motivations for Youth Migration in Rural China, Yilin Chiang, Emily C. Hannum, and Grace Kao
Adversity and internalizing problems among rural Chinese adolescents The roles of parents and teachers, Shannon Davidson and Jennifer H. Adams
The Effects of Child-Bearing Policies in Remarriages: Evidence from China, Hanming Fang and Wanchuan Lin
Parental factors and early English education as a foreign language: A case study in Mainland China, Yuko Goto Butler
The Impact of Female Education on Fertility: Evidence from Turkey, Pınar Mine Güneş
The Role of Maternal Education in Child Health: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Law, Pınar Mine Güneş
Is Centralized Teacher Deployment More Equitable? Evidence from Rural China, Li Han
The Economic Rationale for Investing in Stunting Reduction, John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Lawrence Haddad, and Susan Horton
Comparative studies of health and mortality, Jessica Y Ho
Habitus Transformation: Immigrant Mother’s Cultural Translation of Educational Strategies in Korea, Hyejeong Jo
Mothers’ Empowerment, Children’s Inoculations and Schooling in Pakistan: Urban vs Rural Areas, Daughters vs Sons and 1998-99 vs 2007-08, Adiqa K. Kiani and Jere R. Behrman
The Persistent Eff ects of in Utero Nutrition Shocks Over the Life Cycle: Evidence From Ramadan Fasting, Muhammad Farhan Majid
Three essays on health inequalities, Ameed Saabneh
Essays on demographic legacies of twentieth-century population planning, Ethan Sharygin
Impact of household educational expenditures on the test scores of children, Xinzheng Shi
The economic lives of black immigrants: An analysis of wages, homeownership, and locational attainment in the United States, Rebbeca Tesfai
Math Skills and Market and Non-market Outcomes: Evidence From an Amazonian Society, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Jere R. Behrman, Elena L. Grigorenko, Alan Schultz, Julie Yiu, and Ricardo A. Godoy
Reforming Rural Education: Understanding Teacher Expectations for Rural Youth, Lisa Yiu and Jennifer H. Adams
Papers from 2012
Identifying the Attributes of Effective Rural Teachers: Teacher Attributes and Mathematics Achievement among Rural Primary School Students in Northwest China, Jennifer H. Adams
Curriculum Transformation in China: Trends in Student Perceptions of Classroom Practice and Engagement, Jennifer H. Adams and Tanja C. Sargent
Who Goes, Who Stays, and Who Studies? Gender, Migration, and Educational Decisions among Rural Youth in China, Yilin Chiang, Emily C. Hannum, and Grace Kao
Who Goes, Who Stays, and Who Studies? Gender, Migration, and Educational Decisions among Rural Youth in China, Yilin Chiang, Emily C. Hannum, and Grace Kao
A population-based approach to cigarette smoking and mortality, Andrew Fenelon
Poverty, Food Insecurity and Nutritional Deprivation in Rural China: Implications for Children's Literacy Achievement, Emily C. Hannum, Jihong Liu, and Edward Frongillo
Semiparametric Bayesian Modeling of Income Volatility Heterogeneity, Shane T. Jensen and Stephen H. Shore
Essays on gender and health, Carla Medalia
Essays on the spatial clustering of immigrants and internal migration within the United States, Matthew Howard Ruther
Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization: Evidence from Medigap Coverage, Daniel W. Sacks
Does an intra-household flypaper effect exist? Evidence from the educational fee reduction reform in rural China, Xinzheng Shi