A survey of health insurance in Pennsylvania found that more than 1 million Pennsylvanians, mostly employed adults, lack health insurance (Philadelphia Inquirer).

The 2008 Health Insurance Survey research report and county statistics, as well as the 2004 survey results, are available online from the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.

Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, targets National Science Foundation funding:

The ranking GOP member of the Senate Finance Committee wants Congress to reconsider new funding to the National Science Foundation amid allegations that top staffers spent long stretches of their day surfing the Internet for pornography. (Centre Daily Times)

According to a blog post from Penn State’s Life Sciences Library, most Taylor & Francis journals are no longer available online to the Penn State community because Penn State could not reach a satisfactory licensing agreement with the publisher.

Population Studies: A Journal of Demography is still available online and in print in the PRI Library.

Request electronic copies of articles not available in Penn State’s collections through interlibrary loan.

Faculty and staff may also request electronic copies of articles available print in Penn State’s collections using the ILLiad system.

PRI associates and affiliates may also request an electronic copy of any article using our document request form.

The current financial crisis is affecting foundations, including those that fund research. Find out more about how the crisis is affecting foundations, and how they are coping, from the Foundation Center.

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

Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Impact Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Multi-Team Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Predoctoral Traineeship Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (P01) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (P20) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants (P30) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Established Investigator Award in Cancer Prevention & Control (K05) – National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Independent Scientist Award (K02) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Mentored Research Scientist Research Career Development Award (K01) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

NCI Transition Career Development Award (K22) – National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NCMHD Disparities Research and Education Advancing Mission (DREAM) Career Transition Award (K22) [deadline extended] – National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)

Short Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators (K18) – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

TransCoop Programme – Humboldt Foundation

The PRI Library has received an announcement for a postdoctoral fellow in environmental studies at Davidson College.

The latest issue (volume 8, number 4) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your PopNet (UNIX) username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns

• The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for linear regression models (B. Jann)
• The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for nonlinear regression models (M. Sinning, M. Hahn, and T. K. Bauer)
• Meta–regression in Stata (R. M. Harbord and J. P. T. Higgins)
• A closer examination of subpopulation analysis of complex–sample survey data (B. T. West, P. Berglund, and S. G. Heeringa)
• Erratum and discussion of propensity–score reweighting (A. Nichols)
• A shortcut through long loops: An illustration of two alternatives to looping over observations (W. Vanlaar)
• Demand–system estimation: Update (B. P. Poi)
• Speaking Stata: Distinct observations (N. J. Cox and G. M. Longton)
• Review of Stata par la pratique : statistiques, graphiques et éléments de programmation, by Éric Cahuzac and Christophe Bontemps (A. Terracol)
• Stata par la pratique : statistiques, graphiques et éléments de programmation par Éric Cahuzac et Christophe Bontemps (A. Terracol)
• Review of Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Second Edition, by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal (N. J. Horton)

Notes and Comments

• Stata tip 69: Producing log files based on successful interactive commands (A. R. Riley)
• Stata tip 70: Beware the evaluating equal sign (N. J. Cox)
• Stata tip 71: The problem of split identity, or how to group dyads (N. J. Cox)
• Stata tip 72: Using the Graph Recorder to create a pseudograph scheme (K. Crow)

Software Updates

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal; Volume 17 Numbers 3-4, 2008. Special Issue: International Migration
Data and Sources in Asia.

The Center Report;  Volume 28 Number 4, Winter 2008.

Cityscape; Volume 10 Number 3, 2008. Design and Disaster: Higher Education Responds to Hurricane Katrina.

Demography; Volume 45 Number 4, November 2008.

Journal of Marriage and Family; Volume 70 Number 5, December 2008.

Family Relations; Volume 57 Number 5, December 2008.

National Longitudinal Surveys News; Volume 08-133, 2008.

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, Number 3, 2008.

NCHS Data Brief; No. 11, December 2008. Marital Status is Associated with Health Insurance Coverage for Working-age Women at all Income Levels, 2007.

Population Bulletin, Volume 63 Number 4, December 2008. Rethinking Age and Aging.

Population Studies: A Journal of Demography; Volume 62 Number 3, November 2008.

Poverty in Focus, Number 16, December 2008. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: The Policy Challenge.

Reproductive Health Matters; Volume 16 Number 32, November 2008.

Social Forces; Volume 87 Number 2, December 2008.

STATA Journal; Volume 8 Number 4, 4th Quarter 2008.

Studies in Family Planning; Volume 39 Number 4, December 2008: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa.

World Bank Research Digest; Volume 3 Number 1, Fall  2008.

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has published an issue brief on Recessions and Older Workers (by Alicia H. Munnell, Dan Muldoon, and Steven A. Sass).

New research from the Mills Longitudinal Study shows that marital quality and happiness improve after children have left home (New York Times).

Citation: Gorchoff, S.M., John, O.P., & Helson, R. (2008). Contextualizing change in marital satisfaction during middle age: an 18-year longitudinal study. Psychological Science, 19(11), 1194-200. (Abstract)