American Journal of Public Health, September 2007

Demography, Volume 44 Number 3, December 2007

Focus Institute for Research on Poverty, Volume 25 Number 1, Spring-Summer: Poverty policy and poverty research over four decades

Monthly Labor Review, May 2007. Time Use in America

National Longitudinal Survey News, Number 07-129, 2007

National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 55 Number 19, August 21, 2007. Deaths: Final Data for 2004

Office for Research Protection, Issue 16, September-October 2007

Population Bulletin, Volume 62 Number 3, September 2007. World Population Highlights: Key Findings from PRB’s 2007 World Population Data Sheet.

Population Reference Bureau Policy Brief, September 2007. Malnutrition is still a major contributor to child deaths

The STATA Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, 3rd Quarter 2007

On-line Journals and Newsletters

Population Reports, Series L No. 15, August 2007: Family Planning Choices for Women with HIV

The following new reports on education research supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are available online:

• A child’s-eye view of social difference

• A review of research on the links between education and poverty
• Children researching links between poverty and literacy
• Educational relationships outside school
• Experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage
• Mapping the alternatives to permanent exclusion
• School exclusions: Learning partnerships outside mainstream education
• The impact of poverty on young children’s experience of school

In May 2007 the Urban Institute sponsored Public and Private Roles in the Workplace: What are the Next Steps in Supporting Working Families?, a roundtable involving business leaders, practitioners, national policy experts, researchers, and advocates. Papers from the roundtable are available online.

• Interpreting 12th-Graders’ NAEP-Scaled Mathematics Performance Using High School Predictors and Postsecondary Outcomes From the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
• Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  In addition to presenting educational indicators for racial and ethnic minority compared to each other and to white students, this report uses data from the American Community Survey to detail educational differences among Hispanic subgroups.

Population Issues in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank (PDF) was produced by the Health, Nutrition, and Population Family (HNP) of the World Bank’s Human Development Network. The paper discusses “some obstacles and opportunities presented by opulation processes in order to prioritize areas for investment and analytical work as background nformation for the 2007 HNP Sector Strategy.”

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

2008 Title VIII National Research Competition - National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

AFAR Research Grants - American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)

Americas Fellowship in Reproductive Sciences (F05) - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Congressional Fellowships in Child Development 2008-2009 - Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R01) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R03) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R21) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Eurasia Fellowship Program - Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Executive Branch Policy Fellowships in Child Development 2008-2009 - Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology Awards - American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) - Glenn Foundation for Medical Research

Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) - International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)

International Research Collaborations to Study HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (R21) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Leadership in Aging Fellowship - Brookdale Foundation

National Research Initiative: Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium-Sized Farms - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

National Research Initiative: Human Nutrition and Obesity - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

National Research Initiative: Rural Development - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

Optimizing Prevention and Healthcare Management for the Complex Patient (R21) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) (R01) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical Students - American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) - John A. Hartford Foundation - National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Title VIII Ed A. Hewett Policy Fellowship - National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grants - National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

The National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering have issued a request for information on “Medical Technologies for Reducing Disparities in Healthcare Access and Health Outcomes.” The input will help guide future NCMHD/NIBIB programs. For details, see the RFI.

The PRI Library has received a call for papers for the 66th Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, to be held April 3-6, 2008 in Chicago.

The latest issue (volume 7, number 3) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your POP username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns

• Robust standard errors for panel regressions with cross-sectional dependence (D. Hoechle)
• Estimating parameters of dichotomous and ordinal item response models with gllamm (X. Zheng and S. Rabe-Hesketh)
• Simulation-based sensitivity analysis for matching estimators (T. Nannicini)
• Modeling of the cure fraction in survival studies (P. C. Lambert)
• Profile likelihood for estimation and confidence intervals (P. Royston)
• Fitting mixed logit models by using maximum simulated likelihood (A. R. Hole)
• An exact and a Monte Carlo proposal to the Fisher–Pitman permutation tests for paired replicates and for independent samples (J. Kaiser)
• Speaking Stata: Turning over a new leaf (N. J. Cox)

Notes and Comments

• Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for uniform() (M. L. Buis)
• Stata tip 49: Range frame plots (S. Merryman)
• Stata tip 50: Efficient use of summarize (N. J. Cox)
• Stata tip 51: Events in intervals (N. J. Cox)

Software Updates

NCHS announced the internet release of NHIS 1969.

The 2006 Imputed Income files are also available. PRI researchers may request this data from the Data Archivist.