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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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