Federal research grants discourage investigators from questioning established orthodoxies and using intuition and accidental discoveries, writes Donald W. Miller, Jr., a professor of surgery at the University of Washington, in an article in the Journal of Information Ethics. Read more in the 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.

Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing, by PRI associates Paul Amato, Alan Booth, David Johnson, and Stacy Rogers, leades the Best Sellers in Social Science, September 2006-present, compiled by YBP Library Services and published in Library Journal.

Links: PRI Library holdings and Penn State University Libraries holdings, publisher page for this book.

Cities are enlarging street signs, widening sidewalks, and making other adjustments to prepare for an expected surge in the elderly population by 2030 (USA Today).

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Implementation of a Program to Enhance Quality in Collection, Management and Presentation of HIV/AIDS and Related Information in the Republic of Zambia under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Residential Fellows - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Sociological Initiatives Foundation Grants - Sociological Initiatives Foundation

Funding Opportunities Open To Faculty And Students

Fellowship Programs - American Institute of Indian Studies

Katrina Grants - American Institute of Indian Studies

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (PDF) says that expanding SCHIP to all uninsured US children would lead to some reduction in private coverage, because some parents would forego private health insurance in order to be eligible for the program (kaisernetwork.org Daily Health Policy Report).

Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria by Una Okonkwo Osili and Bridget Terry Long (NBER Working Paper No. 13070)

The Effect of Labor Migration and Remittances on Children’s Education Among Blacks in South Africa by Yao Lu and Donald J. Treiman (California Center for Population Research [UCLA] working paper CCPR-001-07)

Work-related migration and poverty reduction in Nepal by Elena Glinskaya, Mikhail Bontch-Osmolovski, and Michael Lokshin (World Bank Policy Research working paper no. WPS 4231)

Poverty, social divisions, and conflict in Nepal by Lakshmi Iyer and Quy-Toan Do (World Bank Policy Research working paper no. WPS 4228)

Cohabitation and Child Poverty in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: 1995-2006 (PDF) by Wendy Manning, Heidi Lyons, and Meredith Porter (Bowling Green Center for Family and Demographic Research working paper 2007-08)

Mattering and Wives’ Perceived Fairness of the Division of Household Labor (PDF) by Sayaka Kawamura and Susan L. Brown (Bowling Green Center for Family and Demographic Research working paper 2007-06)

Psychological Implications of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Midlife by Tetyana Pudrovska (University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology Working Paper #2007-02)

Measurement Error and Misclassification: A Comparison of Survey and Register Data by Arie Kapteyn and Jelmer Yeb Ypma (RAND working paper WR-283-1) examines survey and administrative data for reliability, and challenges the notion that administrative data represents “the truth”.

New from Family Health International, Qualitative Research Methods: A Data Collector’s Field Guide (by Natasha Mack, Cynthia Woodsong, Kathleen M. MacQueen, Greg Guest, and Emily Namey) is a how-to guide for data collection for applied research.