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The Population Studies Center (PSC) Working Paper Series is open to PSC research associates. It serves as an outlet for pre-prints, for papers under journal review, and for background papers (e.g., for technical materials for which journals lack space). Papers can be submitted to the PSC Director and/or his or her designees. The series will also entertain submissions from students affiliated with PSC research associates. In such cases, the submission should be accompanied by a letter from a PSC research associate stating that she or he has read the paper, that it conforms to high professional standards, and that she or he wishes to sponsor its appearance in the series.
The PSC Working Paper Series is housed in the ScholarlyCommons@Penn, a repository for the scholarly output of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. It promotes dissemination of their work, and preserves it in a freely-accessible, long-term archive. In addition to our current paper series we have two older series available, the African Demography Working Paper Series (1980-1989) which is already archived in the Scholarly Commons and the soon to be archived Penn PSC Analytical and Technical Report Series. The PSC is also home to the Population Aging Research Center (PARC) which also has a working paper series available, the PARC Working Paper Series.
2008
Greenwood, Jeremy and Nezih Guner. 2008. "Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 08-01.
2007
Helleringer, Stéphane, Hans-Peter Kohler, Agnes Chimbiri, Praise Chatonda, and James Mkandawire. 2007. “The Likoma Network Study: Context, Data Collection and Initial Results.” PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-05.
Stevenson, Betsey, and Justin Wolfers. 2007. “Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces.” PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-04.
Stevenson, Betsey. 2007. "Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women's Labor Supply Revisited." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-03.
Clark, Shelley, Michelle Poulin, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2007. “The Marital Process and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi.” PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-02.
Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram and Samuel H. Preston. 2007. "A New Method for Attributing Changes in Life Expectancy to Various Causes of Death, with Application to the United States." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-01.
2006
Maluccio, John A., John Hoddinott, Jere R. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Aryeh D. Stein. 2006. "The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 06-04.
Behrman, Jere R., John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, and Aryeh D. Stein. 2006. "What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 06-03.
Elo, Irma T. and Greg L. Drevenstedt. 2006. "Black-White Differentials in Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States during the 1980s: The Role of Medical Care and Health Behaviors." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 06-02.
Preston, Samuel H. and Emily Buzzell. 2006. "Mortality of American Troops in Iraq." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 06-01.