Voter turnout depends less on demographic factors and more on institutional and campaign factors, and cities with high rates of population growth had low voter turnout, according to an article appearing in the current issue of Journal of Urban Affairs. (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Note: The Chronicle article is available online to subscribers. PRI affiliates can read the Chronicle in the PRI Library or request online access from library@pop.psu.edu.

Adoptive parents invest as much time and resources in raising their children as do biological parents, and do better than single-parent or stepparent families, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review (AP via Centre Daily Times). The findings are based on analyses of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,Kindergarten-First Grade Waves (ECLS-K) and the researchers controlled for the socioeconomic differences between adoptive and other types of families.

Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment (PDF) is available online from the American Sociological Association.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Research Analyst in the oversight of Human Subjects Protections in Extramural Projects (note position is with LTS).

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Global Research Initiative Program, Behavioral/Social Sciences (R01) - Fogarty International Center (FIC) - National Eye Institute - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) - Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative to Build Capacity in Black and Hispanic Communities and Among Black and Hispanic Researchers to Conduct HIV/AIDS Epidemiologic and Prevention Research (U01) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

U.S. and Global Teams of Research Excellence - Hewlett Foundation - Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Unsolicited Grant Opportunities - Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

Funding for Students (Pre-Doctoral Or Dissertation)

Dissertation Fellowships in Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development - Hewlett Foundation - Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants - Hewlett Foundation - Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

Postdoctoral Program - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

The MEPS 2004 Full Year Consolidated data file, documentation and codebook files have been updated and are now available to Penn State Researchers in SodaPop and PopNet. These files reflect the revisions in the family weight variables FAMWT04F and FAMWT04C.

The HRS has released Version 1 of the Respondent Pension Data Tracker Files. The files were constructed to enhance the user’s ability to utilize pension information from various jobs reported by respondents in up to seven waves of the HRS.

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion In Uganda: Causes and Consequences (PDF) is a new report from the Alan Guttmacher Institute.

Global Aging and the Sustainability of Public Pension Systems, a recently released report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), compares retirement systems in 12 developed countries.

Adults 55-64 years old were one of two groups, along with children, most likely to be insured, but they face an increasing risk of being uninsured, according to Health Insurance Coverage of the Near Elderly, 1994-2005 (Notes, January 2007, Employee Benefit Research Institute).

The Census Bureau plans to eliminate the “foster child” category from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey, according to commentary by William P. O’Hare on the Population Reference Bureau Web site.