PARC Pilot Research Grants Awarded
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Year 15 (7/1/08 to 6/30/09)
Personal Attributes and the Financial Well-Being of Older Adults: The Effects of Control Beliefs
Principal Investigator: Cnaan, Ram and Marcus, Steven
Aims:
To determine whether or to what extent control beliefs differ by personal attributes; to determine whether or to what extent financial well-being differs by personal attributes; and to determine whether or to what extent control beliefs mediate the relationship between
personal attributes and financial well-being.
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Early life conditions and familial correlations in cause-specific mortality
Principal Investigator: Elo, Irma
Aims:
To investigate the effects of early life socioeconomic status, place of birth,
and household structure on cause-specific mortality and familial clustering of cause-specific mortality
in Finland during the latter half of the Twentieth Century.
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Development of Methods for Applying Demographic Synthesis to Large Genome Scans
Principal Investigator: Ewbank, Douglas
Aims:
To develop computer programs to put Framingham Study data into a format that can be read into the demographic programs; to revise the analysis programs to increase the speed with which they process the data; and to develop a mechanized approach to scanning the results and identifying SNPs that appear to be associated with longevity.
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Biomarkers in Malawi: Inflammation and CRP
Principal Investigator: Kohler, Hans-Peter and Soldo, Beth
Aims:
To test the hypothesis that HIV-negative individuals living in a community of high HIV-AIDS prevalence have a greater risk of contracting the disease if their high-sensitivty C-Reactive Protein is elevated > 3.0mg/L; and to evaluate the overall health of some 1000 persons living in Balaka region in Northern Malawi.
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New Evidence on Annuity Choices in Chile: A Dynamic Programming Approach
Principal Investigator: Mitchell, Olivia
Aims:
To analyze the empirical determinants of Chilean workers’ decision to annuitize at
retirement or not.
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Aging in a Time of AIDS: The impact of the epidemic on elderly in rural Malawi
Principal Investigator: Watkins, Susan
Aims:
To enhance the scientific value of the forthcoming 5th round of the Malawi Diffusion
and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) by collecting data on the non-resident parents of respondents in the
MDICP.
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