18 May 2009
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Awards:
Valerie K. Oppenheimer received the 2009 Harriet B. Presser Award from the Population Association of America on Friday, May 1, 2009.  The Presser Award is given for a record of sustained contribution in gender and demography.  This is the first time that this new award was given.  In announcing the winner,  the Presser Award Committee Chair, Professor Paula England of Stanford University noted that it was entirely appropriate that Valerie Oppenheimer be the first recipient, given her long and distinguished record of contributions in research on gender and labor force.

Vilma Ortiz and Eddie Telles book, Generations of Exclusion, won the PSA 2009 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship.  It was also recently mentioned in the NY Times

Publications:
Cameron Campbell's paper "Long-term mortality consequences of childhood family context in Liaoning, China, 1749-1909" (w/ James Lee) appeared as Social Science and Medicine, 68(9):1641-1648.  Link

Jennie Brand's paper "Differential Impact of Involuntary Job Loss on Physical Disability among Older Workers: Does Predisposition Matter?” (w/ William Gallo, Hsun-Mei Teng, Linda Leo-Summers, and Amy L. Byers) appeared as Research on Aging 31: 345-360. Link

Jennie Brand also had another paper, "Dynamic Measures of Primary and Secondary School Characteristics: Implications for School Effects Research” (w/ Andrew Halpern-Manners and John Robert Warren) appear in Social Science Research 31: 345-360. Link

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