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Smith, Ken R. | A population-based study of childhood cancer survivors body mass index | Population-based studies are needed to estimate the prevalence of underweight or overweight/obese childhood cancer survivors. Procedure. Adult survivors (diagnosed ≤20 years) were identified from the linked Utah Cancer Registry and Utah Population Database. We included survivors currently aged ≥... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Adding maps (GPS) to accelerometry data to improve study participants recall of physical activity: a methodological advance in physical activity research | Objective Obtaining the ‘when, where and why' of healthy bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) provides insights into natural PA. Design In Salt Lake City, Utah, adults wore accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) loggers for a week in a cross-sectional study to establis... | | 2014-01-01 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Adoption in Canada: A neglected area of data collection and research | For some decades there has been in Canada, as in the United States, recurrent public interest in adoption. At various times this interest has been kindled by professional concern about unauthorized child placement and by the plight of children made homeless by war and other calamities. More recently... | Canada; Adoption; Statistics | 1981 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Adoption policy in Great Britain and North America | This paper has two purposes. First, to explore what existing adoption legislation may indicate about the meaning and function of adoption practices in North America and Great Britain. Second, to consider some possible policy implications revealed by clearer understanding of the social meaning of exi... | Adoption law; Family; North America | 1984 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Alice in demographyland: how it looks from the other side of the looking glass | The challenges are many in reflecting on women in demography in Canada in the 1990's. On the one hand, so much is known about women in academia and the hurdles that still need to be overcome " institutionally and intellectually. So much more research exists in the area than it did only a decade ago.... | Women; Universities; Academic life | 1992 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Allied health manpower strategies: estimates of the potential gains from efficient task delegation | This study analyzes the potential impact of physician extenders on the productivity of primary care practices and considers the consequent implication for future health manpower requirements. A number of previous investigations have evaluated a variety of extenders in experimental settings. This stu... | | 1973 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Alone in the ivory tower: how birth events vary among male and female fast-track professionals | We use data from the 2000 Census Public Use Microsample to examine the likelihood of a birth event, defined as the household presence of a child under two years old, for male and female professionals. Physicians have the highest rate of birth events, followed in order by attorneys and academics. W... | Fertility; Family; Occupation; Academic careers; Census | 2009-06-10 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Approche sociologique feministe pour l'ettude de la fecondite. | L'essor d'une perspective feministe de la fecondite provient de plusieurs endroits et se situe a des niveaux varies. Avant d'esquisser ceux qui serviront de base aux discussions de ce chapitre, une breve histoire de ce contexte parait de mise. Il y a une vingtaine d'annees, alors que les sciences... | Fecundity; Feminist sociology | 1995 |
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Yu, Zhou | Assimilation and Rising Taiwanese Identity: Taiwan-born Immigrants in the United States, 1990-2000 | This study examines why a growing percentage of Taiwan-born immigrants in the U.S. have identified themselves as Taiwanese rather than ethnic Chinese in the U.S. decennial censuses between 1990 and 2000. The trend appears inconsistent with the assimilation theory, which postulates that ethnic groups... | Taiwanese; immigration; identity; economic status; United States | 2009-06-01 |
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Smith, Ken R. | The association between adult mortality risk and family history of longevity: the moderating effects of socioeconomic status | Studies consistently show that increasing levels of socioeconomic status (SES) and having a familial history of longevity reduce the risk of mortality. But do these two variables interact, such that individuals with lower levels of SES, for example, may experience an attenuated longevity penalty by ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Association of physical and behavioral characteristics with menstrual cycle patterns in women age 29-31 years | We examined the association between menstrual cycle characteristics(cycle length, variability, and bleeding length) and physical and behavioral attributes in 766 women age 29-31 years. Menstrual cycled at a were prospectively recorded as part of the Menstruation and Reproductive History Study of col... | | 1996 |
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Diener, Marissa L.; Wright, Cheryl | Attachment security among mothers and their young children living in poverty: associations with maternal, child, and contextual characteristics | In order to extend previous research and inform intervention programs, the goal of the present study was to further understand variability in mother-child attachment security among high-risk families living in poverty. Mothers (65% Hispanic) and their young children who were in a home visitor progr... | Attachment security | 2003 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Becoming inventors: women who aspire to invent | Despite growing awareness of women's contributions to technological advances in the past, almost nothing is known about contemporary women inventors and the challenges they face. Although greater attention has been given recently to women's contributions to technology and innovation, understanding... | Inventions; Inventing; Technology | 1990 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Biased estimation in policy research: an illustrative example of ridge regression in a health system model | The paper develops an argument for the necessity of examining individual coefficients in policy models. As a result of this need, it is posited that something other than OLS estimators should be used since they are inflated and have extremely large variances when multicollinearity is present. Furthe... | Policy models; Health systems; Ridge regression | 1980 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Born at the right time?: gendered generations and webs of entitlement and responsibility | Analyses of social change and challenge in sociologies for women often start with some attention to generation. Yet, generation per se has been an underconceptualized sociological construct as a structural dimension of stratification, particularly gender stratification, or as a lens through which... | Generation; Gender; Women | 2001 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Challenges to health promotion among older working women | The work site, has, been a place of successful health promotion among; certain groups, most notably men in management. The potential of work site health promotion among women, particularly among' older working women, remains unexplored.. Given women's greater longevity and women's likelihood of spen... | Workers; Longevity; Aging | 1988 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Challenges to mental health promotion among working women in Canada | Health promotion efforts have concentrated on promoting physical well-being with psychological benefits perhaps most often among men. With greater proportions of women now working, the workplace provides excellent opportunities for health promotion and education for women. Given increasing recognit... | Working women; Canada | 1993 |
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Yu, Zhou | Changing distribution of migrant population and influencing factors in urban China: economic transition, public policy, and amenities | | Migrant redistribution; rural-urban and interregional migration; urban transformation; economic transition; floating population | 2019 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Community contributions to scholastic success | The authors examine the influence of neighborhood characteristics on the academic outcomes of children in middle childhood. Prior research has examined structural features of the community and has evaluated their associations with youth outcomes (Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, Klebanov, & Sealand, 1993; Kowal... | Academic development; Child development; Developmental psychology | 2006-05 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Continuities and transformations: challenges to capturing information about the 'Information Society' | Continuous change and radical transformations are intrinsic and often contradictory in the 'Information Society.' If the 'Information Society' marks a radical social shift, i.e. discontinuous change, then theorizing what the phenomenon is becomes crucial in capturing useful information about it. Yet... | Social process; Information; Computer technologies | 2002 |
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Yu, Zhou; Myers, Dowell | Convergence or divergence in Los Angeles: three distinctive ethnic patterns of immigrant residential assimilation | This paper uses census microdata to examine five aspects of residential assimilation in the greater Los Angeles area. A double cohort method is used to separate the effect of duration in the U.S. from the effect of aging. We track a single arrival cohort that came in 1970-79, and analyze the process... | Residential assimilation; Immigrants; Cohort; Los Angeles; Homeownership | 2006-01-11 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Crime, new housing, and housing incivilities in a first-ring suburb: multilevel relationships across time | Concepts deriving from criminology, housing policy, and environmental psychology are integrated to test two ways that housing conditions could relate to crime in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City. For existing housing, we use a model to test whether housing incivilities, such as litte... | Community development; Community revitalization; Crime; Urban policy | 2004 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Culture of gender: socialization, spirituality and sexuality | In this presentation, I hope to take you on a journey through the social landscape which teaches us about spirituality and sexuality. Like any journey, this one will have its ups and downs and in this case both ups and downs come from the same source. That source is the recognition that what we can... | | 1987 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Determinants of first sex by age 14 in a high-risk adolescent population | A study using data for mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and their children aged 14 or older indicates that, after accounting for a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic antecedents, children are significantly more likely to become sexually active before age 14 if their m... | | 1996 |
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Yu, Zhou | Different path to homeownership: The case of Taiwanese immigrants in Los Angeles | Taiwanese immigrants in Los Angeles stand in contrast to the welldocumented homeownership deficit among immigrants. Despite the tremendous growth in Taiwanese immigrants during the 1980s, Taiwanese homeownership rate not only was among the highest of all ethnic groups in 1990,... | Taiwanese immigrants; Homeownership; Los Angeles; adaptation | 2006 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Different voices of gender: social recognition | Many researchers have shown that men and women speak differently. In this paper we examine whether these differences extend to the interpretation of speech. Men and women were recorded as they described their participation in a common interpersonal dilemma. | Gender differences | 1997 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Wen, Ming | Disparities in healthcare utilization in China: do gender and migration status matter? | Using a multi-stage cluster sampling approach, we collected healthcare and demographic data from 531migrants and 529 local urban residents aged 16-64 in Shanghai, China. Logistic regressions were used to analyze the relationship between gender-migration status and healthcare utilization while contr... | | 2012 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Dispelling the pipeline myth: gender, family formation, and alternative trajectories in the academic life course | Academic careers have traditionally been conceptualized as pipelines, through which young scholars move continuously from graduate school to tenure-track positions. This understanding often fails to capture the experiences of female Ph.D. recipients, who take ladder-rank assistant professorships at ... | Careers, academic; Tenure; Teaching, higher education; Employment | 2006-07-20 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Does daylight savings time encourage physical activity? | Background: Extending Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been identified as a policy intervention that may encourage physical activity. However, there has been little research on the question of if DST encourages adults to be more physically active. Methods: Data from residents of Arizona, Colorado, Ne... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Srisukhumbowornchai, Sivithee | Does housework matter anymore? The shifting impact of housework on economic inequality | In recent years, American women's housework time has declined while American men's housework time has risen. We examine how these changes have affected economic inequality in America. Using time-diary data from the Time Use in Economic and Social Accounts, 1975-76 (N=1,484) and the American Time Use... | Demography; Socioeconomic status; Household duties; Female; Male; United States; Economics | 2006-09-25 |
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Yu, Zhou | Does immigration induce urban sprawl? A dynamic demographic analysis for the U. S. | This article, utilizing U.S. Census data from 1980 and 1990, probes the relationship between immigration and urban sprawl. The preliminary findings reveal that native-born and foreign-born populations are very different regarding their household behaviors. Population growth caused by immigration is... | Urban sprawl; Immigration; Household growth; Population growth | 2002 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Does the teaching of home economics skills have an economic payoff? The case of clothing construction | In recent years secondary schools have begun to view their home economics programs as an increasing marginal portion of their overall curricula. Because no payments are made for goods produced at home, gauging the economic value of taking a home economics class has been difficult for students, paren... | Nonmarket activities; Clothing construction; Home sewing; Valuation | 1986 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Double impact: what sibling data can tell us about the long-term negative effects of parental divorce | Most prior research on the adverse consequences of parental divorce has analyzed only one child per family. As a result, it is not known whether the same divorce affects siblings differently. We address this issue by analyzing paired sibling data from the 1994 General Social Survey (GSS) and 1994 Su... | Divorce; Siblings; Educational attainment; Marital stability | 2003 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Smith, Ken R. | Double impact: what sibling data can tell us about the long-term negative effects of parental divorce | Most prior research on the adverse consequences of parental divorce has analyzed only one child per family. As a result, it is not known whether the same divorce affects siblings differently. We address this issue by analyzing paired sibling data from the 1994 General Social Survey (GSS) and 1994 Su... | Siblings; Marital stability; Educational attainment | 2003 |
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Smith, Ken R.; Mineau, Geraldine Page; Kerber, Richard A. | Effects of childhood and middle-adulthood family conditions on later-life mortality: evidence from the Utah population database, 1850-2002 | How do parents affect the health and longevity of their children? Parents can affect their children's life chances by transmitting a genetic endowment (or liability) for a long life while also providing resources and an environment that enhances (or limits) their children's longevity. Recently, m... | Growth; Death; Adolescence; Geriatrics | 2005-01-05 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Emotional support and family contacts of older Canadians | Elderly people can no longer expect to spend their senior years living with their families. This is particularly true for older women, who as widows are more and more likely to be living alone. With more seniors living on their own, emotional support from family may not be as easy to come by as i... | | 1993 |
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Wang, Yu; Sun, Bindong; Yu, Zhou | Equalization or polarization? The effect of the Internet on National Urban Hierarchies across the World, 2000-2018 | As Internet adoption and diffusion continues worldwide, little is known about its effects on the restructuring of national urban hierarchies across the world. We create a panel data of city population with uniform definitions within each of the 133 countries from 2000 to 2018, using the Pareto index... | Internet; urban hierarchy; nonlinear link; channel; transnational; urban growth | 2018 |
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Shangguan, Xuming; Shi, Gengyan; Yu, Zhou | ESG performance and enterprise value in China: a novel approach via the regulated intermediary model | ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance increasingly influences enterprise valuation. While researchers debate about the precise nature of this influence, most assume a positive linear relationship. This study introduces a novel ESG responsibility performance metric utilizing the Reg... | ESG; enterprise valuation; corporate sustainability; the Regulated Intermediary Model | |
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McDaniel, Susan | Estimates of the rate of illegal abortion and the effects of eliminating therapeutic abortion, Alberta 1973-74* | In the current controversy surrounding abortion, rates of illegal abortion, being difficult to ascertain, seldom inform the debate. We utilize a relatively new survey tool, the randomized response technique (RRT), to estimate rates of illegal abortion in Edmonton, Alberta. A comparison of results o... | Birth; Health; RRT; Fertility | 1979 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Estimates of the rate of illegal abortion and the effects of eliminating therapeutic abortion, Alberta 1973-74* | In the current controversy surrounding abortion, rates of illegal abortion, being difficult to ascertain, seldom inform the debate. We utilize a relatively new survey tool, the randomized response technique (RRT), to estimate rates of illegal abortion in Edmonton, Alberta. A comparison of results o... | Birth; Health; RRT; Fertility | 1979 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Explaining Canadian fertility: some remaining challenges | Canada is in an advantageous position to study the social context of human reproduction and childbearing. Canadian contributions to the fertility literature have thus far been impressive. In spite of the obvious solid base of fertility research in Canada, some challenges remain. Among these are cap... | Economic; Canada; Research | 1984 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Exploring the influence of the National School Lunch Program on children using the early childhood longitudinal study | Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, 1998-1999 Kindergarten Cohort, the proposed study examines two research questions. First, what are the effects of participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) on changes in children's behavior, test scores, and body weight? Second,... | Children; Nutrition; Elementary School, Meal program | 2006-09-01 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Familial effects of BRCA1 genetic mutation testing: changes in perceived family functioning | This study expands recent research that examines how the receipt of BRCA1 genetic test results affects family adaptability and cohesion 1 year after genetic risknotification. Study participants were members of a large Utah-based kindred with an identified mutation at the BRCA1 locus. The final samp... | Genetic testing; Families; Risk notification: BRCA1 | 2007 |
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Stroup, Antoinette M.; Smith, Ken R. | Familial effects of BRCA1 genetic mutation testing: changes in perceived family functions | This study expands recent research that examines how the receipt of BRCA1 genetic test results affects family adaptability and cohesion one year after genetic risk notification. Study participants were members of a large Utah-based kindred with an identified mutation at the BRCA1 locus. The final sa... | Family functioning; Family cohesion; Family adaptability; Genetic testing; BRCA1 | 2006-07-27 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Family structure and child well-being: examining the role of parental social connections | This paper examines the role of parental social connections in accounting for subgroup differences in the influence of family structure on children. Our previous work found that white, but not black, children were negatively influenced by living in a singleparent family (Dunifon and Kowaleski-Jon... | Sociology; Parenting; Offspring | 2003-10-03 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Family structure and voter turnout | We use data from the Voting and Registration Supplement of the Current Population Survey to explore the effects of family structure on turnout in the 2000 presidential election. Our results indicate that family structure, defined as marital status and the presence of children, has substantial implic... | United States; Politics; Democracy; Families; Demography | 2006-09-19 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Family, frailty, and fatal futures? Own-health and family-health predictors of subjective life expectancy | Subjective life expectancy is a powerful predictor of a variety of health and economic behaviors. This research expands upon the life expectancy literature by examining the influence of familial health histories. Using a genetic/environmental model, we hypothesize that individuals' assessments of th... | | 2014-01-01 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Feminist scholarship in sociology: transformation from within? | Few revolutions, epistemological or otherwise, begin in academia. And yet, knowledge producers always play some role in revolutions of any kind, including epistemological revolutions. This paper is in the spirit of recent debates in the Canadian Journal of Sociology about the end of modern sociology... | Feminist sociology; Social reality | 1991 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Fertility and post-reproductive longevity | We examine the effects of reproduction on longevity among mothers and fathers after age 60. This study is motivated by evolutionary theories of aging and theories predicting social benefits and costs of children to older parents. We use the Utah Population Database, that includes a large genealogic... | Fertility; Post-reproductiivity; Longevity | 2002 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Fertility intentions following testing for a BRCA1 gene mutation | Objective: To test whether fertility intentions differed among persons who tested positive, tested negative, or did not know their genetic status for a mutation of the BRCA1 gene. Method: Participants were members of a large Utah-based kindred with an identified mutation at the BRCA1 locus. Particip... | Genetic testing; Fertility; Risk notification: BRCA1 | 2004 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Generational consciousness of and for women | Relying and building on an analytical framework of gendered generation, the question is posed of whether there is a greater or lesser interconnected consciousness among generations of women. Generational consciousness for women may be both thicker and more britte than it is for men. Both patriarchy... | Gendered generations; Feminism; Generational consciousness | 2002 |
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Diener, Marissa L. | Gift from the gods: a Balinese guide to early child rearing | The influence of Western schools and other imports notwithstanding, many child-rearing practices recorded earlier in the century [in Indonesia] are still observable, especially those concerning infants and young children. For the "manual" that follows, I propose as the fictive author a male healer, ... | Children; Bali; Infants; Child rearing manuals | 2000 |
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D'Astous, Valerie Anne | Grandparents and their grandchildren with autism spectrum disorder: building bridges through technology | Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impaired social interactions, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors or unusual or severely limited interests (American Psychiatric Association 2008). A child's autism diagnosis affect... | | 2011 |
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Werner, Carol M.; Sansone, Carol; Brown, Barbara B. | Guided group discussion and attitude change: the roles of normative and informational influence | Group discussion has effectively changed attitudes and behaviors compared to individually-targeted messages (Lewin, 1952; Werner, 2003). This study examines the roles of normative and informational social influence in this effect. High school students heard a message about replacing toxic products w... | Elaboration likelihood model; ELM; Waste reduction; Sustainability; Household hazardous waste; HHW; Toxic waste; Nontoxic alternatives; Group discussion | 2008-03 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice? | It is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: fac... | Age factors; Canada; Health care costs | 1994 |
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Yu, Zhou | Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging housing market | China's emerging housing market, as a critical element of ongoing economic reforms, has drawn increasing attention. The complete abandonment of the socialist housing allocation system in the late 1990s has led to profound changes in housing distribution and consumption in urban China. This article, ... | Housing distribution; Housing reform; Chinese Census; Beijing; Shanghai; Tianjin; Chongqing | |
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Yu, Zhou | Heterogeneity in Asian American homeownership: the impact of household endowments and immigrant status | Recently, research has begun to investigate the reasons for differences in homeownership rates between Asian and whites. This paper extends this research by examining the heterogeneity that exists across Asian groups in the United States. We find that there are important differences across geog... | Immigrants; Homeownership | 2003 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support | Soaring homeownership and housing prices have made it more difficult for newcomers to climb the housing ladder without parental support. This study relies on China Household Finance Survey microdata in 2015 to examine the role of parental attributes and financial support on adult children's homeowne... | Demographics; Intergenerational mobility; Parental income transfers; Parental attributes | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership determinants for Chinese Americans: assimilation, ethnic concentration, and nativity | Chinese homeownership rates in the Los Angeles CMSA adjusted by socioeconomic and housing market characteristics are on average 18 percentage points higher than those of native white households Painter et al. (2003). This finding runs contrary to most of immigration literature, which suggests that i... | Chinese Americans; homeownership | 2004 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Smith, Ken R. | Household food expenditure patterns: a cluster analysis | The 2001 report titled "The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity" identified overweight and obesity as major public health problems, costing U.S. society as much as $117 billion a year and posing as great a threat of death as poverty, smoking, or problem ... | Food expenditure; Buying habits; Buying patterns | 2007 |
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Yu, Zhou | Immigrants and housing markets in mid-size metropolitan areas | The recent trend of immigrants arriving in mid-size metropolitan areas has received growing attention in the literature. This study examines the success of immigrants in the housing markets of a sample 60 metropolitan areas using Census microdata in both 2000 and 2005. The results suggest that immig... | | 2009 |
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Yu, Zhou, Haan, Michael, Yi, Chengdong | The Inception of Housing Pathways in Urban China: The Declining Household Formation of Young Adults from 2011 to 2017 | The homeownership rate of young adults has surged to an unprecedented level in urban China, despite rising housing prices and significant rural-urban migration. A trend analysis of nationally representative microdata shows that household formation is the missing link in the paradox and that many you... | Household formation; headship rates; young adults; migration; institutional barriers; housing pathways | 2017 |
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Smith, Ken R.; Bean, Lee Lawrence; Mineau, Geraldine Page; Fraser, Alison M.; Lane, Diana | Infant deaths in Utah, 1850-1939 | Of all the health revolutions that have taken place in the United States since 1850, the reduction of infant mortality is arguably the most dramatic and far-reaching. Because of the incompleteness and unreliability of surviving vital records,, we will probably never know precisely the rate of infan... | Death; Utah; Infant mortality | 2002 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Influence of participation in the national school lunch program and food insecurity on child well-being | This study examines two research questions: the child- and family-specific factors that predict food insecurity and participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the effects on school-age children of food insecurity and participating in the NSLP. Results show that factors representin... | Children's nutrition; Children's diet; Child development | 2003-03 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Information and communications technologies: bugs in the generational ointment? | The uses and impacts of information and communications technologies IICTsl. are not smooth, linear or fairy-tale like in dusting society with benefits. In development, adoption, uses and impacts. technologies shape. and are shaped by social relations and social structures. Generational relations a... | Information; Communication; Technologies; Social relations | 2002 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Innovation in human/social guise | In this chapter, innovation is viewed from a step further back, as an astronaut might see the earth from space. It is not seen as something analysed as a linear, technical process, whether incremental or radical. Nor is it seen as a process in which social context adds to the mix of other factors to... | Innovation; Social process | 2006 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Intergenerational transfers, social solidarity, and social policy: unanswered questions and policy challenges | Le transfert intergenerationnel constitue l'essence de la continuite societale et pourtant, il demeure mal conceptualise et analyse. Il se situe Egalement au centre du concept de l'etat sur le bien-etre quant a la redistribution des ressources et partant, des changements/defis actuels quant aux mes... | Intergenerational transfers; Social solidarity; Social continuity; Redistribution | 1997 |
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Yu, Zhou | Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China | As Internet access grows at different rates across regions, the Internet has had variable effects on regional economies through agglomeration and spillover effects. This paper uses province-level panel data from 2000 to 2013 to study inequality in Internet access, its spatial effect on regional econ... | Digital divide; Internet access; spillover effect; regional economic development; China | 2017-06-03 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | The kids are all right: Generational differences in responses to the great recession | Data from a university survey of 2,799 employees were examined to determine age cohort differences in retirement planning activities in the aftermath of the Great Recession. A life course approach and logistic regression were used to assess whether members of four different age cohorts altered their... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Diener, Marissa L. | Kindergarten readiness and performance of Latino children participating in Reach Out and Read | Background: Literacy is a vital skill that forms the basis for academic, occupational, and social success. Minority populations, especially immigrant Latinos in the US, have achievement gaps in literacy when compared to the White population. The Reach Out and Read (ROR) program is a pediatric, prima... | | 2012-01-01 |
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| landesman test.pdf | Rail-volution 2005, September 8-10, 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah. Workshop Summaries. | Transportation; Community development; Public transportation | 2006-11-10 |
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Yu, Zhou | Leaving gateway metropolitan areas in the United States: immigrants and the housing market | Immigration is no longer a phenomenon that is simply affecting gateway metropolitan areas in the United States. This analysis demonstrates that large numbers of immigrants are moving to other metropolitan areas and analyzes the housing outcomes of households who currently live in the fourteen larges... | Homeownership; Migrants; Households | 2008-05-01 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Les femmes dans un Canada en voie de vieillissement: une approche féministe | Le vieillessement de la population est un des thèmes majeurs de discussion en cette fin de XXe siècle, tous les pays développés étant engagés dans le processus. Certains redoutent l'insuffisance des ressources requises pour le bien-être des personnes âgées; d'autres considèrent le vieilli... | | 1989 |
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Yu, Zhou | Macro effects on the household formation of China s young adults demographics institutional factors and regional differences | Household formation, or the extent to which population is transferred into households, determines housing demand and reflects housing wellbeing. Young adults, who are new entrants to the housing market and sensitive to changing market conditions, have faced many challenges in China's fledging housin... | Household formation; headship rates; housing demand; the post 1970 generation; demographics; regional differences; non-family households | 2017-01-24 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Marriage and divorce in Utah and the United States: convergence or continued divergence? | The social context for marriage and divorce in the United States has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. Since the 1950s, Americans have been waiting longer to marry. Women's median age at first marriage rose from 20 in the 1960s to 25 in 2000; for men, the increase was from 22 to 27 (Clar... | | 2006 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Medical culture and health politics: the Ontario debate | The 1986 doctors' strike in Ontario brought into stark relief many of the issues that have been latent in Canadian health politics for several decades. In this paper, an analysis from a sociological perspective is offered of the issues involved in the 1986 doctors' strike. Issues are discussed i... | | 1988 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Methods for preparing dry, partially articulated skeletons of osteichthyans, with notes on making ridewood dissections of the cranial skeleton | We describe methods for preparing dry skeletons of virtually any osteichthyan species with a well-ossified skeleton, including very large specimens (e.g., > 1 m Megalops atlanticus). Our approach differs from those conventionally used to prepare skeletons of tetrapods in that (1) fairly complete di... | Skeleton preparation; Study specimens; Partially articulated skeletons; Osteichthyans; Ridewood dissections; Cranial skeleton | 2004 |
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Yu, Zhou; Fan, Jessie X. | Migrant status and consumer financial fraud in China: a two-stage approach | Chinese migrants face socioeconomic disadvantages. Less is known about their vulnerability to consumer financial fraud, which can impede migrants' integration into urban China. This paper uses nationally representative data from 2015 to investigate migrants' risk factors for consumer financial fraud... | Migration; hukou; risk factors; fraud exposure; victimization; rural migrants; and urban migrants | |
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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates between groups and over time: the effects of variable household formation | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress, the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. We seek to understand whether the conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, has confounded the a... | | 2009 |
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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates when the variable effect of household formation is ignored: explaining rising homeownership and the homeownership gap between Blacks and Asians | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress in the U.S., the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. The conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, confounds the measurement of "success"... | | 2010-01-01 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Mixed blessings of no-fault divorce | Between the mid-1960s and 1979 the crude divorce rate in the United States more than doubled.1 Although divorce had increased at a steady rate for more than the previous 100 years, the mid-1960s marked the beginning of an unprecedented boom.2 Despite modest declines over the last twenty years,3 th... | Divorce reform | 2005 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing | Net income, gross income, and bias in child support awards in gross income-shares states | In this study I discuss the pros and cons of using net income vs. gross income in gross income-shares states. It is argued that the "standardized net" approach is the best approach in determining child support awards based on the combined principles of equity and accuracy. However most states use g... | Net income; Gross income; Tax credit; State income tax | 2006-07-27 |
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McDaniel, Susan | New stork rising? Women's roles and reproductive changes | Anyone who has not been living in a remote cave will know that reproduction in the past decade has been changing rather dramatically. These changes have occurred on several fronts. Writing as a sociologist, I shall emphasize the social aspects of these changes, looking first at some of the changes ... | In vitro; Birth rate; Artificial insemination | 1989 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Older women: their quest for justice and peace | Myths, misconceptions and stereotypes about women and about older people combine in ways that prevent us from noticing some promising new developments in the quest for justice and peace. A popular stereotype sees the person working toward peace and justice as youthful, and significantly, often male.... | Women; Peace; Justice | 1988 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Ovarian cancer mortality among immigrants in Australia and Canada | This study examined the impact of changing environments on ovarian cancer by comparing age standardized mortality rates of numerous immigrant groups in Australia and Canada to those in the origin countries for the period 1984-1988. Mortality rates by length of residence in Australia (0-29 and 30+ y... | Ovarian cancer; Immigrants; Australia; Canada; Mortality | 1995 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Over-scheduled or at loose ends? The shifting balance of adolescent time use | Little is known about the time use of American youth. In this study, time diary data from 1977-78 and 2003-05 are used to investigate time use in middle adolescence with the goals of ascertaining (1) changes in time use, (2) how socioeconomic and familial factors influence adolescent time allocation... | Adolescents; Adolescent time use; Adolescent wages; Leisure | 2007-05-18 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Brown, Barbara B.; Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D. | Patterns of household food expenditures: a cluster analysis | In this study we use the Diary Survey component of the 2001 and 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey to investigate patterns of household food expenditures. We identify eight constellations of food expenditures that are more and less likely to be associated with healthy eating habits. These clusters in... | Diet; Fast food; Nutrition; Eating habits | 2007 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D. | Patterns of household food expenditures: a cluster analysis | In this study we use the Diary Survey component of the 2001 and 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey to investigate patterns of household food expenditures. We identify eight constellations of food expenditures that are more and less likely to be associated with healthy eating habits. These clusters in... | Diet; Fast food; Nutrition; Eating habits | 2006-09-01 |
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Salari, Sonia Lynne | Patterns of intimate partner homicide suicide in later life: strategies for prevention | Intimate partner homicide suicide (IPHS) constitutes the most violent domestic abuse outcome, devastating individuals, families, neighborhoods and communities. This research used content analysis to analyze 225 murder suicide events (444 deaths) among dyads with at least one member 60 or older. Dat... | Intimate partner homicide suicide; IPHS; Murder-suicide; Elder abuse; Prevention | 2007 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Perceived marital quality and stability of intermarried couples: a study of Asian-white, Black-white, and Mexican-white couples | The purpose of this study is to compare intermarried and intramarried couples with respect to their marital happiness and perceived marital stability White, black, Mexican, or Asian spouses in black-white, Mexican-white or Asian-white unions were compared to intramarried couples based on data from ... | Interracial couples; Marital quality; Marital stability | 2000 |
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Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D.;Brown, Barbara B.; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on respondents age 15 to 29 y in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate multivariate logis... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation; Life course | 2007 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Smith, Ken R.; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on respondents age 15 to 29 y in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate multivariate logist... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation; Physical activity | 2007 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Smith, Ken R.; Brown, Barbara B.; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | Background: We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on 15-29 year old respondents in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate mul... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation | 2006-11-10 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Physical activity mediates the relationship between perceived crime safety and obesity | Objective. The current cross-sectional study tests whether low perceived crime safety is associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity risk and whether less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) accounts for part of this relationship. Method. Adults (n=864) from a relatively low-income a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Politiques sociales, changements économiques et démographiques et vieillissement de la population canadienne : leurs interactions | Necessaire à la decision politique, la prévision des effets qu'aura le vieillissement demographique sur la société doit débrouiller un écheveau de changements économiques, démographiques, politiques et sociaux. Pour comprendre le jeu de ces facteurs, l'auteur analyse, à partir de faits conc... | | 2003 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Post-occupancy evaluation of wayfinding in a pediatric hospital: research findings and implications for instruction | A post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of way finding in a new pediatric hospital pointed to a wide range of areas where wayfinding aids could be improved. After initial walk-through evaluation tours and meetings with administrators, five more systematic methods were used to assess problems: staff and vi... | Hospitals; Wayfinding; Signage | 1997 |
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Fan, Jessie X., Yu, Zhou | Prevalence and Risk Factors of Consumer Financial Fraud in China | This study estimates the prevalence of consumer fraud in China and investigates consumer fraud risk factors using a novel two-stage conceptual framework that differentiates fraud exposure from fraud victimization after exposure. Multivariate analyses show that multiple risk factors have opposite eff... | Consumer financial fraud victimization; China; migrants; financial knowledge; risk attitude | |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Problems in the pipeline: gender, marriage, and fertility in the ivory tower | Women have traditionally fared worse than men in the workplace. In few places has this been more apparent than higher education (Jacobs, 1996). In 2003, women received 47% of PhDs awarded (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2005a) but comprised only 35% of tenured or tenure-track fac... | Family; Career; Marital Status | 2008 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Public policy, demographic aging and families | Voodoo demographics, a term coined by American economist James Schulz in the late 1980s, describes the belief that aging populations pose threats to life and society as we know it, particularly to social safety nets, education, public health care, as well as challenges to families. Surprisingly, the... | | 1998 |
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Morris, Mark; Emmi, Philip C.; Bartholomew, Keith A.; Brown, Barbara B. | Rail-volution: building livable communities with transit | Rail-volution 2005, September 8-10, 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah. Workshop Summary. | Transportation; Community Development; Urban transportation; Public transportation | 2005-09 |
