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2009 Graduates

Beltran-Sanchez, Hiram, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Mortality and Survivorship by Causes of Death in the United States

Calderon, Cecilia, Ph.D.
Three Essays on Gender Inequalities, Human Capital and Development in Guatemala

Creighton, Mathew J., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The Role of Gender, Aspirations, and Family Structure in Mexican Education and Migration

Grant, Monica, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Education, HIV Risk Perceptions, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Rural Malawi

Mehta, Neil, Ph.D.
Contemporary Topics in American Adult Health and Mortality: Obesity and Immigration

Myrskylä, Mikko, Ph.D.
Essays on the life course and mortality

Opiyo, Collins, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The Recent Rise of Childhood Mortaility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Kenya

2008 Graduates

Soler-Hampejsek, Erica, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Schooling, Gender, and Marriage in Guatemala

Wang, Haidong, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Essays on Smoking and Mortality in the United States

2007 Graduates

Anglewicz, Philip, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Migration, Risk Perception, and HIV Infection in Malawi

Bartley, Katherine, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: New Migratory Dynamics, North of the Border, Across the Border, and Below the Border: Three Essays Examining Internal and Mexico-U.S. Migration

Doyle, Jamie M., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The Physical and Mental Health of Multiracial Adolescents in the United States

Huang, Cheng, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Empirical Findings and Research Methods in Health and Mortality: Early Life Conditions and Health and Mortality - the Case of Mexico and China and Application of Multiple-Imputation to Missing Data Due to Sub-Sampling

Kaneko, Ryuichi, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Age Schedule Models of First Marriage and Their Applications: Theoretical and Empirical Developments of the Coale-McNeil Nuptiality Model

Obare Onyango, Francis, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Response to Population-Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV in Rural Malawi

Patterson, Evelyn Joy, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: A Demography of Incaceration: An Analysis of Measurement and Mortality in United States' State Correctional Facilities, 1985-1998

Simelane, Sandile E., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Measurement, Trends and the Demography of the Poor

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2006 Graduates

Argeseanu, Solveig, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Who Promotes Child Well-Being? Essays on the Importance of the Household for Child Well-Being

Mswia, Robert, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Mortality in the Era of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

Reniers, Georges, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Behavioral Change in Populations Affected by the AIDS Epidemic. Four Essays

Tfaily, Rania, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Changes in Traditional Practices in Contemporary Demographic Regimes in the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia : Three Essays

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2005 Graduates

Aysa-Lastra, Maria, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Selection, Adaptation and Vulnerability of Internal Forced Migrants: A Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia

Hayford, Sarah, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Fertility and Marriage in an Era of Family Change

Kennedy, Sheela, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Education and family change: A comparative study of shifts in the timing and structure of family formation

Noël-Miller, Claire, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Grandparents and the Mortality of their Grandchildren in The Gambia: Findings from the 1993 Census

Redstone Akresh, Ilana, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Three Studies of Immigrant Labor Market Assimilation in the United States

Riosmena, Fernando, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Within, Between, and Beyond Space-Time: Three Essays on Latin America - US Migratory Dynamics

Smith, Kirsten P., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Understanding High Levels of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States: A Between- and Within-Country Analysis

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2004 Graduates

Bignami, Simona, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Demographic Measurement and Analysis in Developing Countries: Three Essays

Hickes-Lundquist, Jennifer M., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: A Counterfactual Approach to the Black-White Differential in U.S. Marital Trends: The Effect of a "Total Institution"

Jones, Shasta Fichon, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Changes in the Size and Composition of the Jobless Population in the United States, 1964-2000

Lardoux, Solene, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Polygyny, First Marriage and Fertility in Senegal and Mali

Malone, Nolan, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: A whole new ball game: An analysis of the legalization processes faced by Mexican migrants to the United States in the post-bracero era

Thomas, Kevin, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The Demography of Migrant Populations in South Africa

Turra, Cassio M., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Living and Dying at Older Ages: Essays on the Hispanic Mortality Paradox and the Annuity Puzzle in the U.S.

Yu, Shengchao, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Childhood immunization in India: Roles of family structure, women's autonomy, and village health service provision

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2003 Graduates

Baker, Kristine Ria, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: For Better, For Worse: An Examination of the Decline in Marital Prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Doctor, Henry Victor, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Mortality in twentieth-century Malawi

Fischer, Mary, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Finding a Place: The Social and Academic Adjustment of Minorities to College

Livingston, Gretchen, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Does Membership have its Privileges? Gender, Networks & Wage Outcomes among Mexican Immigrants

Sana, Mariano, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: International Monetary Transfers: Three Essays on Migrant Decision-Making

Stone, Leslie F., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Studies in the Demography of Supercentenarians in the United States

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2002 Graduates

Bawah, Ayaga A., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Health, well-being and mortality in Africa

Dorabawila, Vajeera S., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Changes in child labor, wage differentials and migration incentives in Peru: gender and ethnic differentials

Ghuman, Sharon J., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The relationship between women's autonomy and infant and child survival: evidence from five Asian countries

Gupta, Payal, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Marriage at a distance : spouse separation and the migrant family

Jones, Nathan R., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Research in population health

Miller, Katharine A., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Demographic and social aspects of twentieth-century low fertility populations : three approaches

Rutaremwa, Gideon, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Differentials in infant and child mortality in east Africa

Schatz, Enid J., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Numbers and narratives : making sense of gender and context in rural Malawi

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2001 Graduates

Clark, Samuel J., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: An investigation into the impact of HIV on population dynamics in Africa

Drevenstedt, Greg, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Mortality patterns in the United States since 1960 : essays on migrant mortality, the impact of Medicare, and demographic consequences of cause-specific mortality change

Stewart, Quincy Thomas, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Modeling social and demographic phenomena: mortality, inequality and labor force growth

Williams, Monique, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Examples of American racial stratification: wage, health and violence differentials examined

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2000 Graduates

Boulis, Ann Kathryn, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Mammography screening for low income women

Duffy Linda, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Adult health and mortality among women in Matlab Bangladesh: the effects of socioeconomic status, early life health, and reproductive behavior

Foley, Kathleen, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Poor beginnings, poor health : a 30-year exploration of socioeconomic position and health

Guillot, Michel, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The dynamics of the population sex ratio

King, Rosalind Berkowitz, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Women's fertility in late modernity

Luke, Nancy K., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Rariu and Luo women : illness as resistance in rural Kenya

Pepper, Sarah K., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Single among marrieds: characteristics, living arrangement and attitudes of the never married

Reynar, Angela R. Grimes, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Fertility decision making by couples amongst the Luo of Kenya

Weinreb, Alexander A., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Integrating respondents, community, and the state in the analysis of contraceptive use in Kenya

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1999 Graduates

Hill, Mark E., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Studies in African American social demography

Kuhn, Randall S., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The logic of letting go: family and individual migration from rural Bangladesh

Warriner, Ina K., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Nontraditional approaches to traditional demographic questions: three essays on fertility and mortality

Weiss, Christopher, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The effects of student engagement in the transition to high school

White, Kevin, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Essays on developed nation mortality and Kenyan contraception

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1998 Graduates

Armstrong, Elizabeth, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Conceiving risk, bearing responsibility : ideas about alcohol and offspring in the modern ERA

Koropeckyj-Cox, Tatyana M., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The conditional benefits of parenthood (or childlessness) for subjective well-being in older adulthood

Madhavan, Sangeetha, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Collaboration and conflict among women in rural Mali: effects on fertility and child survival

Martinot-Lagarde, Pierre Jean, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The process of union formation, revisiting theories and survey data: a comparison between INED's two surveys: "Le Choix du Conjoint: (1959) and "La Formation des Couples" (1984)

Nyblade, Laura Christine, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: HIV counseling and testing in a rural Ugandan population

Phillips, Julie, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Crime and migration: three essays examining causes and consequences of two urban social challenges

Zimicki, Susan, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Knowledge and vaccination: the response to the 1990 national urban immunization campaign in the Philippines

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1997 Graduates

Fernando, Leticia, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Paternal migration, maternal autonomy and child health in Mexico

Green, Steven, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Roles of social interaction and male involvement in fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa: three essays

Heuveline, Patrick, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Heuristic potential of cohort-component projections : three essays in population dynamics

Sibanda, Amson, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Fertility transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa : establishing the sources and determinants of reproductive change in Zimbabwe and Kenya

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1996 Graduates

Grushka, Carlos, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Adult and old age mortality in Latin America : evaluation, adjustments and a debate over a distinct pattern

Hughes, Mary Elizabeth, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Metropolitan opportunities and living arrangements in young adulthood : United States 1990

Llera, Lomeli Silvia, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Gender differentials in housing conditions : the Mexican elderly, 1970-1990

Merli, M. Giovanna, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Demographic processes in China and Vietnam : three essays

Zulu, Eliya M., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Social and cultural factors affecting reproductive behaviour in Malawi

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1995 Graduates

Campbell, Cameron, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Chinese mortality transitions : the case of Beijing, 1700-1990

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1994 Graduates

Katende, Charles, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Population dynamics in Africa

Marton, William, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Aging, the family, and informal care of the elderly in the United States : 1987-2025

Ngom, Pierre, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Women's informal communication about family planning in West Africa

Qian, Zhenchao, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Changes in American marriage, 1970-1990 : forces of attraction, assortative mating and interracial marriage

Olaleye, Oyewole, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Toward an understanding of non-numeric fertility preferences and women's fertility planning behavior : the case of Nigeria and Ghana

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1993 Graduates

Allen, Karen, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Desire, attitude and supply : why contraceptive use is so high in three Bangladesh family planning programs

Botev, Nikolai, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Essays on nuptuality and fertility in southeastern Europe

Chen, Renbao, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Life insurance purchases and ownerships in the United States : levels, trends and determinants

Cheney, Rose, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Early childhood mortality in late nineteenth century Philadelphia : determinants of trends and variation

Ezeh Alex, Chika, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Patterns of reproductive control in Sub-Saharan Africa : a couple approach

Hossain, Shaikh, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Testing economic model of child quality quantity in a developing country

Huang, Jianping, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The Asian American fertility pattern: how different is it from the white pattern in 1990?

Kapungwe, Augustus Kasumpa, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Perceptions of diseases and health-seeking behavior in Lusaka urban district of Zambia

McElrath, Thomas, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Heterogeneity in human reproduction : an analysis of seasonal and racial variation in birth outcomes

Robles, Arodys, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Child health among indigenous populations of Bolivia, Guatemala, and Chile

Shrestha, Laura B., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Age mis-reporting and its effects on old age population and death registration estimates : United States, 1970-1990

Takahashi, Shigesato, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Effects of mortality decline on aspects of aging in Japan

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1992 Graduates

Bankole, Stephen Akin, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Marital partners' reproductive attitudes and fertility among the Yoruba of Nigeria

Ekouevi, Koffi, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Family and reproductive behavior in urban Togo

Frankenburg Elizabeth, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Infant and early childhood mortality in Indonesia : the impact of access to health facilities and other community characteristics on mortality risks

Garcia, espana Juan F., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Determinants of internal and international migration from rural areas of Mexico

Goodkind, Daniel, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Creating new traditions in modern Chinese societies : aiming for birth in the year of the dragon

Kramarow, Ellen, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Living arrangements of the elderly in the United States in 1910

Lim, Suet, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Gender, race, and attainment in peninsular Malaysia

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1991 Graduates

Dechter, Aimee, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Expected economic impact of marital dissolution and its implications for the likelihood of divorce

Greene, Margaret, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The importance of being married : marriage choice and its consequences in Brazil

Rosenbaum, Emily, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Race and ethnicity in housing: turnover in New York City, 1978-87

Rwabushaija, Margaret, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: The measurement and definition of age at marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa

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1990 Graduates

Eggers, Mitchell, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Structural causes of concentrated urban poverty in the United States

Gugulethu, Gule, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Childhood mortality in Swaziland : levels, trends, and determinants

Hereward, Mark C., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Investigation of the seasonality of sudden infant death syndrome in the United States

Meekers, Dominique, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Marriage and premarital childbearing in Cote d'Ivoire

Park, Young J., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Women's labor force participation in Korea : trends in levels, patterns and differentials during 1960-1980

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