Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas (PDF) by Alessandro Tarozzi and Angus Deaton (June 2007, Princeton University Research Program in Development Studies)

Mothers’ Residential Mobility Following the Birth of a Child (PDF; Fragile Families Research Brief, Princeton Center for Research on Child Wellbeing)

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review by Jeffrey Grogger & Lynn Karoly (NBER Working Paper No. 13485, October 2007)

The American Community Survey’s Interstate Migration Data: Strategies for Smoothing Irregular Age Patterns by James Raymer & Andrei Rogers (POP2007-08, Population Program, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Emigration and Schooling among Second-Generation Mexican-American Children by Michael S. Rendall & Berna M. Torr (RAND Working Paper WR-529)

Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System (PDF) is a new research brief from the American Sociological Association’s series on institutional aspects of race, racism, and ace relations.

The Growing Color Divide in US Infant Mortality, a new report from the Population Reference Bureau by Rogelia Saenz, professor of sociology at Texas A&M University, examines racial disparities in health beginning at birth.

Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages by Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert K. Triest (WP#2007-14, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College).

Inter-vivos Giving Over the Lifecycle by Michael Hurd, James P. Smith, & Julie Zissimopoulos (WR-524, RAND).

Providing information about public health and social services to poor populations may increase usage, according to a study conducted in India (Johns Hopkins Medicine press release).

Citation: Priyanka Pandey, Ashwini R. Sehgal, Michelle Riboud, et al. (2007). Informing resource-poor populations and the delivery of entitled health and social services in rural India: A cluster randomized controlled trial. JAMA 298:1867-1875. (Available online to the Penn State community)

The stereotype may be that women are the ones who want children, but a new study suggests that US women are more open to remaining childless than men are. Using data from two national surveys (National Survey of Families and Households and General Social Survey), researchers at the University of Florida in Gainesville found that women had more positive views of childlessness than men did. (Reuters Health)

Citation: Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox & Gretchen Pendell (2007). The gender gap in attitudes about childlessness in the United States. Journal of Marriage and Family 69(4): 899–915. (Available online to the Penn State community)

The majority of Latino immigrants are moderately attached to their home country, and levels of attachment are related to length of time in the US, whether the individual migrated as an adult or a child, and the country of origin, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center. The report is based on new analyses of the Center’s 2006 National Survey of Latinos.

Citation: Roger Waldinger (2007, October 25). Between Here and There: How Attached are Latino Immigrants to their Native Country? Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.

The Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report summarizes two recent PLoS Medicine articles examining the links between HIV/AIDS and development issues like poverty and food insecurity.

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

Center for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders (U24) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Distinguished Fellows Program – William T. Grant Foundation

ELSI Regular Research Program (R01) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Human Genome Research Institute – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

ELSI Small Grant Research Program (R03) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Human Genome Research Institute – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Healthy Behaviors in Women – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

International Science and Education Competitive Grants Program [deadline extended] – Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility Research (U54) – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)