Thursday, March 31 / 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM   •   Franklin Hall

Poster Session 2:
Education, Gender, Religion, Language and Culture

  1. Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso • Richard Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Family Environment, Program Quality, and Children’s Social-Emotional Development in Head Start and Kindergarten • Soumya Alva, Westat, Inc. ; Yair Ziv ; Nicholas Zill, Westat, Inc.

  3. The Gender Gap Reversal in the Brazilian Education in the 20th Century • Jose Eustáquio Diniz Alves, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) ; Kaizo Beltrao, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)

  4. Intra-Urban Mobility Patterns of Mexican Immigrants in Emerging Gateway Cities • Pamela Rogers, University of Texas at Austin

  5. Education in Egypt: The Impact of Family Size and Composition • Rania Tfaily, University of Pennsylvania

  6. Assessing Census Bureau Estimates of High School Graduation • Kurt J. Bauman, U.S. Census Bureau ; Alexander L. Janus, U.S. Census Bureau

  7. Labor Income and French-English Bilingualism in the Two Major Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Montreal Metropolitan Census Area : 1970-1995 • Nicolas Béland, Office Québécois de la Langue Française, Gouvernement du Québec

  8. Proximate Determinants of Literacy and Numeracy Skills in Ghana • Niels-Hugo Blunch, World Bank Group

  9. The Persistence of Peers: Reproductive and Sexual Health Information Channels in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan • Cynthia Buckley, University of Texas at Austin ; Kristen Adkins, University of Texas at Austin ; Jennifer Barrett, University of Texas at Austin

  10. Reciprocal Effects of Sex and Religion in Italy • Marcantonio Caltabiano, University of Padua ; Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, University of Padua ; Alessandro Rosina, Università Cattolica, Milan

  11. Assessing the Accuracy of Data Collected on the Foreign Born: Findings from an Evaluation of the American Community Survey • Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies

  12. The Effect of Full Time Kindergarten on the Cognitive Development of Children: A Longitudinal Study • Bruno Casella, Università Bocconi ; Valeria Edefonti, Università Bocconi

  13. How Does Ability to Speak English Affect Earnings? • Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau ; Hyon B. Shin, U.S. Census Bureau

  14. A Longitudinal Analysis of Contextual Exposure to Peers with College Educated Parents and Students' College Enrollment • Kate H. Choi, University of Texas at Austin ; Kelly Raley, University of Texas at Austin ; Chandra Muller, University of Texas at Austin ; Catherine Riegle-Crumb, University of Texas at Austin

  15. Ethnicity, Political Violence and Internal Migration in Guatamala, 1975-1994: A Multilevel Backward Recurrence Time Model • David P. Lindstrom, Brown University ; Manuel Ángel Castillo, El Colegio de México ; Afra R. Chowdhury, Brown University

  16. Birth Status, Family Structure, and School Readiness among Mexican Immigrant Children • Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin ; Elizabeth M. Wildsmith, University of Texas at Austin

  17. Low Income and School Performance in Middle Childhood: Persistence, Timing, and Mediators • Sally C. Curtin, University of Maryland ; Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland

  18. Jobs for Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka: What’s Education Got to Do with It? • Maitreyi B. Das, World Bank Group ; Rasmus Heltberg, World Bank Group

  19. The Relationship between Gender Socialization and Adolescent Educational Expectations • Shannon N. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Lisa D. Pearce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  20. The Impact of Residential and School Mobility on Neighborhood Characteristics, School Quality, and Educational Outcomes • Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University ; Angela Estacion, Johns Hopkins University

  21. Trends in Religious Affiliation among the Kassena-Nankana of Northern Ghana: Are Switching Patterns Identical by Gender? • Henry V. Doctor, University of the Western Cape ; Evelyn Sakeah, Navrongo Health Research Centre ; James F. Phillips, Population Council

  22. Racial/Ethnic Differences in College Graduation among Academically Promising Students • Anne K. Driscoll, University of California, Davis

  23. Region of Residence and Jewish Identification, US 2000-01 • Isaac W. Eberstein, Florida State University ; Kyle Reese-Cassal, Washington State Forecast Analyst

  24. Student Use of Services on Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border • Leticia E. Fernandez, University of Texas El Paso ; Cheryl Howard, UTEP ; Jon Amastae, UTEP

  25. Parental Living Arrangements, Parental Mortality, and Childhood Vulnerability • Kathy Ford, University of Michigan ; Victoria Hosegood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  26. Texas Students’ College Knowledge: Do High School Counselors Matter? • Michelle Bellessa Frost, Princeton University

  27. The Educational Progress of California’s Immigrant Children • Deborah L. Garvey, Santa Clara University

  28. The Combination of School and Work among Adolescent Children as a Household Strategy of Lone Mothers in Mexico • Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo, El Colegio de México ; Carlos J. Echarri Canovas, El Colegio de México

  29. Adolescent Schooling and Pregnancy in South Africa: Exploring the Causal Linkages • Kelly Hallman, Population Council

  30. Grade Repetition and Incomplete Schooling among Adolescents in Rural Kenya • Tracyann L. Henry, Union College

  31. Exploring Language Use: A Comparison of the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey • Kelly A. Holder, U.S. Census Bureau

  32. The Role of Religiosity in Adolescent and Young Adult Sexual Behavior • Laurencia S. Hutton, Morgan State University ; Mian B. Hossain, Morgan State University

  33. Maternal Influence on Daughters' Family Gender Role Attitudes • Jessica Jakubowski, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  34. Education, Economic Participation, and Women's Status in India • Tanya Kenkre, Pennsylvania State University

  35. The Effects of School Racial and Ethnic Composition on Academic Achievement in Adolescence • Hedwig Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  36. Gendered Investments: Parental Educational Investments in Japanese Families • Kristen Schultz Lee, Pennsylvania State University

  37. The Effect of Malaria on Female Educational Attainment: Evidence from Sri Lanka • Adrienne M. Lucas, Brown University ; David N. Weil, Brown University

  38. Differences among Hispanics by Choice of Survey Language • Gladys M. Martinez, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Barbara V. Marin, Center for Aids Prevention Studies, UCSF

  39. Examining the Role of Acculturation and Nativity Status on the Health Behaviors of Older Mexican Americans • Meredith Masel, University of Texas Medical Branch ; Laura L. Rudkin-Miniot, University of Texas Medical Branch ; M. Kristin Peek

  40. Event-History Analysis of Enlistment in the U.S. Armed Services, 1968 - 1974 • Ryan K. Masters, University of Texas at Austin ; Oliver P. Fischer, University of Texas at Austin

  41. English Language, Skills, and Health Benefits • Nan L. Maxwell, California State University, Hayward ; Lynn Paringer, California State University, Hayward

  42. The Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on the Decisions of the Work and School Acitivties • Elzira L. Oliveira, Universidade Candido Mendes ; Ana Oliveira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

  43. Exploring the Divide in the Digital Divide: The Effect of Race/Ethnicity on Computer Ownership in United States, 1984 – 2003 • Salvador Rivas, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  44. Majors and Marriage: Does Field of Study Influence the Timing of First Marriage? • Camille Ryan, U.S. Census Bureau ; Jessica W. Davis, U. S. Census Bureau

  45. Naturalization Rates of Immigrant Cohorts in the United States: 1973 - 2003 • Nancy Rytina, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ; Elizabeth M. Grieco, Office of Immigration Statistics

  46. Measurement of Race and Ethnic Origin: Results from the Census Quality Survey • Amy S. Smith, U.S. Census Bureau

  47. Recency of Immigration and Immigrant Alcohol and Tobacco Use • Sam S Kim, Arizona State University

  48. A Half Century of Learning: State Trends in Educational Attainment, 1940 to 2000 • Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau ; Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau ; Claire Shook-Finucane ; Jessica W. Davis, U. S. Census Bureau

  49. The Effects of Education and Communist Party Membership on Income in a Transitioning Economy: The Case of Vietnam • Lynne T. Taguchi, University of Washington

  50. Religion and HIV/AIDS Behavior of Men in Sub-Saharan Africa • Baffour K. Takyi, University of Akron ; Stephen Obeng Gyimah, Queen's University ; Gabriel Fosu, ORC Macro

  51. Do They Have to Live Here, Too?: Co-Resident Sibling Composition and the Academic Outcomes of Youth • Kathryn Harker Tillman, Florida State University

  52. Risky Adolescent Behaviors: A Structural Equation and OLS Examination of How Family Characteristics Directly and Indirectly Affect Adolescent Outcomes • Eileen Trzcinski, Wayne State University

  53. Rural India’s Challenges in Achieving "Education for All": a Micro Analysis • Jayachandran Vasudevan, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) ; S. Rajaram, J.S.S. Institute of Economic Research ; Thankam Sunil, University of Texas at San Antonio

  54. Challenges of Projecting Student Enrollment in a High Growth, Choice-Oriented School District • Arthur Wittman, Demographer, Palm Beach County School District