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| Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Manges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder |  |
Catherine Riegle-Crumb's Research Featured on "Science Careers" Catherine Riegle-Crumb is quoted in an article about underrepresentation of African-American bachelor degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. |
2008-09 Governance Committee Members Elected Four members elected to the PRC's Governance Committee for the 2008-09 academic year: Shannon Cavanagh, Toni Falbo, Cynthia Osborne, and Mark Regnerus. They join the five ex-officio members, Mark D. Hayward (Director), Stephen J. Trejo (Associate Director), R. Kelley Raley (Graduate Training Director), and Robert A. Hummer (Undergraduate Training Director). Congratulations to our new elected members. |
Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodríguez with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Lawrence S. Graham, Pedro Jacobi, and Allison M. Rowland |  |
Professor Aletha Huston's SRCD Presidential Address Published In 2007, Dr. Aletha Huston—The Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development in the Department of Human Ecology at UT and former Associate Director of the Population Research Center—completed her two-year term as president of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), the world’s largest professional association dedicated to the study of human development. As president, Dr. Huston oversaw a membership of nearly 6,000 researchers and practitioners from over 50 countries, encouraging the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals from multiple disciplines as well as the applications of scientific research. |  |
The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population After years of research, researchers have a grasp of some of the complex issues and social and behavioral patterns surrounding health that impact older Hispanic people, especially those of Mexican ancestry. |  |
Recent News
| Ron Angel Offered Prestigious Appointment at NCHS Ronald Angel, Professor of Sociology and PRC Faculty Research Associate, has been invited to serve on the Board of the Scientific Counselors at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| Faculty Position Available in the Department of Geography and the Environment The Department of Geography and the Environment invites applicants for an Assistant Professor position in Health Geography to begin September 1, 2008. |
| PRC Faculty and Students to Present Work at the 2008 PAA Annual Meeting At the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, to be held in New Orleans April 17-19, PRC faculty and students will present posters and presentations in regular and special sessions. |
| Population Research and Policy Review now edited at the PRC The Population Research Center is the new editorial home of the journal Population Research and Policy Review, sometimes referred to as PRPR or PR-squared. Professor Thomas Pullum, a PRC Faculty Research Associate and Professor of Sociology, is transitioning into a three-year term as the journal's editor-in-chief. The outgoing editor is Professor David Swanson, of the University of Mississippi. Tom has been processing new submissions since April 2007, but the transfer of editorship is gradual because of the time between submission and publication. His first issue as editor will appear sometime in 2008. While the journal is based at UT, the deputy editors will include Mark Hayward, Bob Hummer, Cynthia Osborne, and Kelly Raley. |  |
| Does Globalization Benefit Women in Developing Countries? Percent Female Workers in Export and Non-export Manufacturing Firms in Mexico, 2001 Sociological research has been generally critical of the effects of economic globalization on developing countries. However, greater worldwide economic integration may have created new employment opportunities for women. In a recent article Andrés Villarreal and Wei-hsin Yu examine the effect of foreign investment and export production on gender inequality in Mexico, a country that epitomizes the global shift to an open-market economic strategy. Using data from nationally representative surveys of manufacturing firms between 1992 and 2001, they find that foreign and export-oriented firms employ significantly more women at every occupational level than do nationally-owned firms producing goods for sale in the domestic market. The greater employment of women in foreign and export firms cannot be explained by these firms’ higher demand for workers of lower skill levels, their size, capital intensity, production technology, wage level, use of temporary workers, or industry. Using managers’ responses to survey questions regarding gender preferences in hiring, Villarreal and Yu find that managers in foreign-owned export firms have a preference for hiring women that cannot be explained by firm-level factors. This preference may account for the observed differences in female employment. Finally, using firms’ payroll information to analyze the gender wage gap in manufacturing firms, they find that foreign-owned export firms discriminate against women less in terms of wages. |  |
| Toni Falbo Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Toni Falbo, an expert on single-child families, was awarded the Newman-Proshansky Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Population Psychology. The award was presented on Aug. 19 in San Francisco at the annual American Psychological Association (APA) convention. |
| Norval Glenn Receives Warren E. Miller Award Norval Glenn, Ashbel Smith Professor of Sociology here at UT, has been awarded the "Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences." Presented annually by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, this award is in memory of Warren E. Miller's lifetime of contributions to the social sciences. |
| Junior Faculty Position Available in the Department of Sociology The Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for an assistant professor position with a starting date of August 2008. |
| PRC Researchers Featured on UT Home Page "’Til Death Do Us Part? Researchers diagnose health consequences of marriage, divorce." PRC Faculty Research Associates Debra Umberson, Mark Hayward, Kelly Raley, and Norval Glenn are featured. |
| Volunteers: A Social Profile Marc A. Musick and John Wilson "A much needed book for both scholars and practitioners. It covers a wide range of topics dealing with volunteering. . . . A major contribution." —Virginia Hodgkinson, Center for Voluntary Organizations and Service Making use of a broad range of survey information to offer a detailed portrait of the volunteer in America, Volunteers provides an important resource for everyone who works with volunteers or is interested in their role in contemporary society. Mark A. Musick and John Wilson address issues of volunteer motivation by focusing on individuals' subjective states, their available resources, and the influence of gender and race. |  |