Past Presentation Abstracts

Whats special about mining spatial datasets? Shashi Shekhar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Are we bowling alone? Findings from the American Time Use Survey. Vincent Louis and Sarah Flood, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
Interrogating the implications of marriage and gendered power for fertility and sexual behavior. Francis Dodoo, Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice, Penn State University
The internal learning system: Assessing impact while addressing participant learning needs. Helzi Noponen, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Luxembourg Income Study: A cross national comparative project to study welfare state outcomes. Markus Jäntti, Luxembourg Income Study, Luxembourg
Country variation in sex differences in self-assessed health: Evidence from the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Elsie Pamuk, The National Center for Health Statistics
Urban sprawl: Observations on urban form and environmental health. Julian Marshall, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Insights into the nature of aging from the Danish Longitudinal Survey. Kaare Christensen, Professor of Epidemiology, Southern Denmark University and Director of the Danish Twin Registry
Diversity and its discontents: Lessons from higher education. Marta Tienda, Office of Population Research, Princeton University

Early Findings from the Flexible Work and Well-Being Study. Phyllis Moen and Erin Kelly, Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
Personalizing Lynch Victims: Using Census Records to Study the History of Southern Mob Violence. Stewart Tolnay, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
"Check All that Apply" and Then What? Working with the New Race Question. Carolyn Liebler, Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
The Impact of Work and Family Careers on Life Outcomes in Late Adulthood. Rob Warren, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Cohabitation and Children's Living Arrangements: New Estimates from the United States. Sheela Kennedy, Minnesota Population Center
Before their Time: Child Labor and Health. Dr. David L. Parker, Department of Occupational Medicine, Park Nicollet Clinic and Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota
Intergenerational Families in Developing Countries Steve Ruggles and Misty Heggeness, Minnesota Population Center
Census in Korea Namhoon Kim, The Korean National Statistical Office
Evolution of National Statistical Systems Dennis Trewin, Former Australian Statistician and President of the International Statistical Institute
Bayesian Sampling Weights: Toward a Practical Implementation of the Polya Posterior Jeremy Strief, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota.

Measuring Race in America C. Matthew Snipp, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Standford University

Did All US Cities Grow the Same? Patterns of Unban Growth in US Cities 1910-2000 Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Union, Public Sector, and Within-group Wage Dispersion in the U.S.: A Density Function Decomposition Analysis Changhwan Kim, Ph.D. Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

Switching Social Contexts: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and Youth Stefanie Deluca, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University

Effect of Racial Residential Segregation on Black Infant Mortality and Infant Mortality Disparities Mary Hearst, M.P.H. Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota

Blacks, Whites, and Brown: Effects on the Earnings of Men and Their Sons Jenny Wahl, Ph.D., Department of Economics, Carleton College

Immigrants and Industrialization in the United States, 1880 to 1920 Charles Hirschman, Ph.D. Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington

Is the Effect of Poverty and Racial Concentration on Health and Mortality Robust over Time? Felicia LeClere, Ph.D., Population Studies Center and ICPSR, University of Michigan