2015 Office of Population Research 2015 Annual Report Princeton University People Seminars Research Publications Training Courses Table of Contents From the Director ……………………………………………….…...…. 3 OPR Staff and Students …………………………………………….…. 4 Center for Research on Child Wellbeing …………………..………. 11 Center for Health and Wellbeing ……………………………….……. 16 Center for Migration and Development …………………………….. 20 OPR Library ………………………………………………..…………….. 23 OPR Seminars ……………………………………………………..……. 26 OPR Research ………………………………………………….……….. 27 Biosocial Interactions ……………………………………………………. 27 Children, Youth, and Families ……………………….................….…… 29 Data and Methods ………………………………………………..……… 31 Education and Stratification ………………………………..….……….. 42 Health and Wellbeing ……. …………………………………......……… 48 Migration and Development …………………………………......……… 54 2015 Publications …………………………………………..………….. 63 Working Papers …………………………………....................….……... 63 Publications and Papers ………………………………..……….……… 63 Training in Demography at Princeton …….............................…….. 78 Ph.D. Program ………………………………………………………….... 78 Departmental Degree in Specialization in Population ……………….. 79 Joint-Degree Program …………………………………………………… 79 Certificate in Demography …………………………………………….… 79 Training Resources ………………………………………………..…….. 79 Courses …………………………………………………………………… 80 The OPR Annual report is OPR published annually by the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544. Copyright © 2016 Office of Population Research. From the Director Douglas S. Massey, Director Elizabeth Sully joined New York’s Guttmacher Institute as a Senior Research Scientist; Edward Berchick assumed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at During 2015 the Office Duke University; Lauren Gaydosh became a of Population Research Postdoctoral Scholar at the Carolina Population celebrated its 79th year as a Center in Chapel Hill; Dennis Feehan was population center. Located in appointed Assistant Professor Demography at the Woodrow Wilson School, Berkeley; Megan Todd was appointed as a in that year it included some Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Columbia 30 faculty research associates, seven postdoctoral University’s Robert N. Butler Aging Center; and fellows, three visiting scholars, and 33 doctoral Laura Nolan joined her as a Postdoctoral Research students supported by a professional staff of Scientist at Columbia’s Population Research seven. During the calendar of 2015, OPR relied Center. upon the services of two directors. During the Spring of 2015 Douglas Massey continued his One of the most gratifying things about service as OPR Director but during the first being OPR Director is seeing our graduates’ semester of his 2015-2016 leave he was replaced remarkable record of success in beginning their by Noreen Goldman as Acting OPR Director. professional careers as demographers in the field’s leading institutions. I know the entire faculty As fate would have it, in that academic year joins me in wishing them continued good fortune OPR was hit by a tsunami of sabbaticals, and as their careers progress. joining Doug Massey on leave that year was Marta Tienda, Betsy Armstrong, and Tod Hamilton. In Douglas Massey, Director their absence, Alicia Adserà nobly stepped up to take Marta’s place as DGS for Population and German Rodriguez ably assumed the duties of teaching POP 502, the annual course in demographic methods. As always, order in the center was maintained through the superb administrative talents of Associate Director Nancy Office of Population Research Cannuli while Lynne Johnson provided support to Princeton University the graduate program. Despite the scarcity of on-campus faculty, the graduate program continued training new demographers, producing no fewer than nine Ph.D.’s in 2015. Upon graduation, Kristin Bietsch went on to become a Research Associate of the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC; Diane Coffey became Executive Director of the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics and continued her work in India; Takudzwa Sayi accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at in the Department of Community and Family Health at the USF College of Public Health in Tampa; Office of Population Research 3 OPR Staff and Students January – December 2015 Director João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Douglas S. Massey Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Associate; Co-Director of Princeton’s Program in Director of Graduate Studies Global Health and Health Policy; Faculty Alícia Adserà Associate, the Office of Population Research, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton Faculty Associates Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton Environmental Institute, Program in Alícia Adserà, Research Scholar and Lecturer in Latin American Studies, and the Program in Law Economics and International Affairs at the and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Anthropology, University Woodrow Wilson School; Director of Graduate of California, Berkeley, 1999, Ph.D., Religion, Studies, the Office of Population Research; Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1996. Research Associate, Bendheim-Thoman Center for Interests: medical anthropology, social studies of Research on Child Wellbeing; Co-Director of the science and technology, global health, subjectivity, Princeton Global Network on Child Migration. ethnography and social theory (with a regional Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, 1996. focus on Latin America and Brazil). Interests: economic demography, development and Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of international political economy. Some of her Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson recent work focuses on how differences in local School; Director, Research Program in labor market institutions and economic conditions Development Studies; Faculty Associate, the Office are related to fertility and household formation of Population Research and the Center for Health decisions in the Organisation for Economic Co- and Wellbeing. Ph.D., Economics, Princeton operation and Development (OECD) and Latin University, 1988. Interests: microeconomic America. In addition, she is interested in an array foundations of development, health economics, of migration topics including: immigrant fertility; public finance, and labor economics. the relevance of language, political conditions and Janet M. Currie, Chair, Department of welfare provisions among the determinants of Economics; Henry Putnam Professor of Economics migration flows; the wellbeing of child migrants; and Public Policy; Director, Center for Health & and the differential labor market performance of Wellbeing; Faculty Associate, the Office of migrants across European countries. Population Research. Ph.D., Economics, Princeton Jeanne Altmann, Eugene Higgins Professor of University, 1988. Interests: health and wellbeing of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus; children including early intervention programs, Senior Scholar, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. expansions of public health insurance, public Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, housing, and food and nutrition programs. 1979. Interests: non-experimental research design Recently her interests are: socioeconomic and analysis, ecology and evolution of family differences in child health, and on environmental relationships and of behavioral development; threats to children’s health, and the long term primate demography and life histories, parent effects of poor health in early childhood. offspring relationships; infancy and the ontogeny Rafaela Dancygier, Assistant Professor of Politics of behavior and social relationships, conservation and Public and International Affairs, Woodrow education and behavioral aspects of conservation. Wilson School; Faculty Associate, the Office of Elizabeth Armstrong, Associate Professor of Population Research. Ph.D., Political Science, Yale Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson University, 2007. Interests: comparative politics School; Faculty Associate, the Office of Population (with a focus on the implications of ethnic diversity Research, Center for Health and Wellbeing, in advanced democracies), immigration, ethnic University Center for Human Values, and Center politics, ethnic conflict, and Western Europe. for Research on Child Wellbeing. Ph.D., Sociology Angus S. Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor and Demography, University of Pennsylvania, of International Affairs; Professor of Economics 1998. M.P.A. Princeton University, 1993. Interests: and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. sociology of medicine, sociology of reproduction, Ph.D., Economics, Cambridge University, 1974. population and health, history of medicine and Interests: economic inequality/poverty, wellbeing, public health, gender and bioethics. health, India, econometrics, microeconomics, and randomized trials. Office of Population Research 4 OPR Staff and Students Annual Report 2015 Thomas Espenshade, Professor of Sociology, status, and health; immigrant health; and survey Emeritus; Lecturer with the rank of Professor in design. Sociology; Senior Scholar, the Office of Population Bryan Grenfell, Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Research Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and 1972. Past research interests: concentrated on Public Affairs, Department of Ecology and social demography (with an emphasis on family Evolutionary Biology and Woodrow Wilson School; and household demography), contemporary U.S. Director, Health Grand Challenge Initiative;