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

Thursday, March 31 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Franklin Hall Level 4

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

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

8.	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

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

10.	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

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

12.	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

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

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

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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

16.	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

17.	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

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

19.	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

20.	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

21.	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

22.	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

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

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

25.	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

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

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

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

30.	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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41.	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

42.	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

43.	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

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

45.	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

46.	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

47.	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

48.	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

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

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

52.	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

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

54.	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

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

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

58.	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

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

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