CDS-III and TA New Results Workshop
(Posted: 11/12/09, Due: (Abstracts) 12/18/09)
June 3-4, 2010
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) will hold a two-day workshop in June 2010 to highlight new research using
data from Wave III of the Child Development Supplement (CDS-III) and from the 2005 and 2007 waves of the Transition
to Adulthood (TA) study. Data from CDS-I, CDS-II, CDS-III and TA-2005 are currently available on-line through the PSID
Data Center. Data from TA-2007 will be available late 2009.
The PSID Child Development Supplement is a three-wave, nationally representative study of children in PSID families
conducted in 1997, 2002/03, and 2007/08. The Transition to Adulthood Study is designed to collect information from all
children who had participated in the CDS who had turned age 18 and completed high school. The TA study collects data
on young adult developmental pathways and outcomes, filling a gap between the detailed information about development
from early and middle childhood through adolescence (as measured in CDS-I, CDS-II, and CDS-III) and the detailed
information on adulthood once these youth achieve economic independence by becoming core PSID respondents. More
information about the study is available at http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/CDS/.
We invite scholars in all disciplines to submit short abstracts (500 words) for research using the CDS-III and/or TA data for
inclusion as either papers or posters in the workshop sessions.
Workshop Format: The workshop will be comprised of paper and poster sessions on any topics covered by CDS and
TA, including child, adolescent, and young adult health, competence and achievement, time use, food and nutrition,
psychosocial well-being, and other topics.
There will be 4 -- 5 paper sessions with 3 -- 4 papers each, and 3 -- 4 poster sessions with 5 -- 10 posters per session.
These sessions will facilitate substantial interaction among scholars and promote targeted comments to each presenter.
The workshop organizers will assign submissions to either the paper or poster session, although authors can indicate their
preference as part of their submission.
Assistance with travel and lodging costs is available for participants on the basis of merit and need. Meals will be
provided to all participants. The workshop will be held in Ann Arbor, MI.
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: December 18, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 2010
Please submit abstracts electronically (in Word or PDF form) to Patty Hall at pathall@isr.umich.edu and indicate whether
you would like to be considered for travel and lodging assistance. Questions regarding the workshop should be directed
by e-mail to Patty Hall.
Data collection and conference activities for CDS and TA are supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute
for Child Health and Human Development and the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
Educational Credentialism
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(Posted: 4/10/09, Due: 2/15/10)
Call for papers on the general topic of “Educational Credentialism” for a special volume of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Elsevier Publishers, under the series editorship of Kevin Leicht, University of Iowa. Special editors for this volume are David K. Brown, Illinois State University and David B. Bills, University of Iowa. We seek new and continuing social research from a variety of disciplines and perspectives on social inequalities resultant of varied understandings of credentialing processes, including theoretical, historical, comparative, and other empirical studies of relationships between formal education and organizations/occupations/work. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2010. Expected publication date is January, 2011. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Manuscript guidelines, online submission instructions, and other information for authors are available at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/706924/description#description.
Preliminary questions may be directed to:
David K. Brown dkbrown@ilstu.edu
Department of Sociology, Box 4660
Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790 or
David B. Bills david-bills@uiowa.edu
Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
N491 Lindquist Center, College of Education
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Panel Study of Income Dynamics Survey Research Center Institute for Social Research University of Michigan (Posted: 7/21/09, Due: 10/16/09)
Call for Papers: Research on Connections between Health and SES Using PSID Data
DEADLINE: October 16, 2009
Purpose The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with support from the National Institute on Aging, announces a call for papers using PSID data to conduct research on the connection between health and socioeconomic status within and across generations. Between 10-20 papers will be presented at a conference to be held in Ann Arbor, MI in September 2010. Support for travel and lodging will be provided to one author per paper.
Background
The PSID has followed the same families and their descendents since 1968, for 36 waves as of 2009, making it one of the premier datasets for generational analysis. When study participants leave a family to start their own household, such as when adult children move out on their own, the new family unit is added to the Core Panel and interviewed. Children born to or adopted by sample members become part of the study population and are followed over their lives. This practical sample design supports both intra-generational and inter-generational life course models. For example, there are many thousands of unique sibling pairs in the core PSID and 925 in the Child Development Supplement (CDS) alone. In 2007, about 4,300 ‘Heads/Wives’ had a sibling who was also a ‘Head/Wife’ in 2007. Moreover, there are currently ample data on up to three generations of the same family, allowing the analysis of child-parent models, parent-grandparent models, and child-grandparent models. For example, in the 2007 wave, there are about 4,500 ‘Heads/Wives’ who have parents who are also ‘Heads/Wives’, more than 1,100 ‘Heads/Wives’ who have grandparents who are also ‘Heads/Wives’, and about 1,000 ‘Heads/Wives’ who have both parents and grandparents who are also ‘Heads/Wives.’
The information collected on socioeconomic status and health is substantial. Extensive information on income, education, and employment has been collected in most waves since the survey began in 1968. A supplement in 1986 included substantial information on health which was expanded and included in every wave starting in 1999. A summary of the health data in the PSID is available at the PSID website: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/data/
Goals of Conference
The goals of the conference are to bring together scholars in the area of health and SES to generate additional scientific and policy-relevant findings, facilitate future collaborations including NIH proposal submissions, and provide feedback to PSID about possible needs for content changes and/or future data collections. Papers will be considered for publication in a refereed special issue of the B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. More information about the journal can be found at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/.
Listed below are some examples of topics, intended for illustrative purposes. This is not a comprehensive list of possible topics.
• Establish the differences in the relationships between health and socioeconomic status among adult siblings – and between parents and adult children – across the life course, and elucidate the various mechanisms accounting for these relationships;
• Estimate models of transmission in education, economic status, and health status across two and three generations, including an examination of endogenous family structure;
• Examine generational differences in factors affecting the retirement decision, including socioeconomic and health factors;
• Examine the transitions and/or spells in health insurance coverage and their relationship to other transitions;
• Examine the effects of events early in the life course on later-life outcomes;
• Investigate the role of neighborhood factors on health. Authors will be expected to present papers at a two-day conference in Ann Arbor, MI in September, 2010. All travel and lodging expenses for one author will be provided.
Selection Criteria Applications will be evaluated by senior scholars affiliated with the PSID. Abstracts will be evaluated based upon several factors, including:
• The thematic relevance of the research;
• The quality of study design, including the choice of appropriate research methodology and data;
• The significance of the analyses in terms of extending scientific knowledge.
Application Instructions Applicants should provide the following:
1. A coversheet with:
• The title of the proposed research;
• The investigators’ name and institutional affiliation with mailing address, email address, phone and fax numbers;
• If the research involves more than one investigator, a principal investigator (PI) must be identified. All correspondence will be with the PI.
2. An extended abstract (2-4 pages) which should include a description of the topic to be studied, the theoretical focus, and the data and research methods.
3. Curriculum vitae for all investigators.
Timeline and important dates: a. Application deadline October 16, 2009
b. Notification of decision November 20, 2009
c. Draft paper due Two weeks prior to two-day conference in September 2010
d. Present paper at two-day workshop in Ann Arbor September 2010
Special Issue on “Health, Economics, and Family Role”
Journal of Family and Economic Issues To be published in June, 2011 Funds for this conference are provided by the National Institute on Aging. (Posted: 8/18/09, Due: 3/1/10)
This special issue of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues invites original empirical or theoretical research papers relevant to the role of individuals and families in improving the health of nation. While much of the policy debate on health care reform focuses on health care providers and the payers for health care, a large part of the health of individuals and the nation depends on the actions of individuals and families--in learning health skills and in living healthier lifestyles.
Understanding the nature and causes of the health of nations is not possible without understanding the role of the family in acquiring and teaching the skills needed to live healthily, analogous to the role of parents in promoting the education attainment of their children. This may be as important as the role of government regulators and healthcare professionals in containing healthcare costs, extending life expectancy and increasing the quality of life.
The ideas of scholars and health policy makers are powerful, but not commonly understood, especially in view of the increasing size and complexity of the public and private roles in the health care of families. As the role of the public sector in regulating, financing and delivering healthcare grows, individual accountability may be seriously weakened, increasing health costs and failing to achieve intended health outcomes. This special issue encourages fresh perspectives that could possibly turn much of the policy debate on its head. The state of flux in the health care poses ongoing challenges and opportunities to the families, providers, insurers, and regulators who have varied incentives and aspirations. This provides a fertile ground for scholars to analyze underlying health issues and to provide ideas that would substantively influence individuals and families in playing a more effective role in improving the nation’s health. This special issue will bring together papers that investigate important topics in family health and economic issues. Both quantitative and qualitative papers are welcome.
Suggested areas of research for this special JFEI issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
Economics of intrafamily resource allocation in health skills
Family investments in health skills and the cost of healthcare
Socioeconomic status of healthy families: Who are they, where are they, and why are they healthy?
What should a family know about health and health economics?
Economics of being a good patient: How should patients most efficiently collaborate with their family doctors?
Economic perspective on happiness and health: Are healthy families happier?
Family Economics and the consequences of parental decision making on the children’s health
Economic impacts of maternal death
Economics of public and private role in family health
Role of policies and incentives in family investments in prevention and promoting health
Economic pathways to minimize substance abuse and to reduce family members’ use of health care services
Family health and economic development at community and/or national level
Economic literacy in understanding family health disparities Health, income disparities, and immigrant families
Economics of ageing and family health
What should poor families pay for their health care and what should be their obligations for minimizing use of the healthcare system?
Spatial distribution of families and family health disparities: Health Status, Health expenditures, and Health finance
A survey of research data in health and family economic issues.
Submission Guidelines:
Please follow the 5th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association to prepare your manuscript. The manuscript should not be more than 35 pages in length, including text, tables, figures, and references. Send an electronic copy of the paper to the journal’s submission website at htpp:// www.springerlink.com/content/1058-0476 on or before March 1, 2010. Please submit it to this category: SI: Health, Economics, and Family Role
Manuscript Submission Due Date: March 1, 2010
For more information please contact:
Manouchehr (Mitch) Mokhtari, Ph.D., Guest Editor
1204 Marie Mount Hall
School of Public Health University of Maryland - College Park College Park, MD 20742
Email: mokhtari@umd.edu
TEL (office): (301) 405-4014 Fax: (1425) 871-7769
UCLA Center for the Study of Women "2010 Thinking Gender"
(Posted: 8/21/09, Due: 10/19/10)
THE UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
20TH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE
"2010 THINKING GENDER"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
UCLA FACULTY CENTER
Call for Papers
Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre‐constituted panels.
We welcome research on any topic and across historical periods and disciplines. This year we are particularly interested in research on labor, social justice, public policy, the global and globalization, race and ethnicity in the Americas, and the “new” economy (austerity) and its effects on women and people of color. Additionally, because this year is the Center for the Study of Women’s 25th anniversary, we are especially interested in topics relating to feminism’s past and present, such as the state of feminism, changing notions of feminism, post‐feminism or third‐wave feminism, feminist community/ies both off and online, and feminist icons and leaders.
For individual papers, please submit a 250‐word abstract, a CV (2 pages max, no resumes, please), and a brief bibliography (1 page max). For panels, please submit a 250‐word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html, and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted. Please also note that the Center for the Study of Women cannot provide travel funds for conference presenters.
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, October 19, 2010, by Noon. We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline, without exception. Please send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
1. The Thinking Gender Conference is open to enrolled graduate students only.
2. Please do not submit an application for both a pre-constituted panel and to the open call. Individuals may appear in only one capacity at the conference.
3. Previously published papers are not acceptable for submission to Thinking Gender. However, papers previously presented at conference are eligible for the conference.
4. For individual papers, please submit the following together, in the following order, in one Word document:
• The Thinking Gender individual cover sheet (download “Thinking Gender Cover Sheet – Individual.doc” from http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html)
• An abstract (250 words)
• A brief bibliography (1 page maximum)
• A CV (2 pages maximum)
• Please title the word document as follows: Last name, first name TG10proposal.doc (e.g. McHugh,Kathleen TG10 Proposal.doc)
5. For pre-constituted panels, which consist of four participants, please submit the following together in one Word document:
• The Thinking Gender panel cover sheet (download “Thinking Gender Cover Sheet – panel.doc” from http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html)
• A proposal abstract for the panel (250 words)
• An abstract for each individual panelist’s paper (250 words)
• A short bibliography (1 page maximum) and A CV (not a resume) for each panelist
• Please title the word document as follows: Last name,first name TG10proposal.doc (e.g. McHugh,Kathleen TG10 Proposal.doc)
*Please note: Pre-constituted panels may include a maximum of two (in extreme cases, three) presenters from the same institution. Any panel with three or more participants from the same institution will be required to provide their own moderator, and will only be considered for inclusion in the conference once the moderator has been secured.
6. If your panel and/or paper presentation will require any visual media, please plan your panel and presentation based on the available equipment:
• VHS player
• DVD player
• Computer (for displaying web images and PowerPoint presentations)
*Please note: Presenters who plan to use laptop computers in their presentations will be required to use conference-provided computers. For this reason, presenters are required to submit all of the AV files that they will use to the CSW two weeks in advance of the conference, so that those materials can be uploaded to the conference-provided laptops. AV materials should be PC compatible, as we cannot accommodate Mac-specific software.
*Special Note on PowerPoint presentations: Computers are available for PowerPoint presentations, however, these presentations should somehow supplement, not simply reiterate the main points of presenters’ papers. As such, no text-only PowerPoints will be allowed. Rather, PowerPoint presentations must include visual aids or images that somehow enhance the presenter’s talk.
7. All paper proposals must be submitted via email by noon on Monday, October 19, 2009. Organizers of panels are likewise responsible for submitting the entire panel proposal by the deadline of noon on October 19, 2009. For help or questions regarding submissions, email thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu.
The European Association for Population Studies invites contributions to the European Population Conference to be held in Vienna, 1-4 September 2010. The EPC 2010 is a general scientific conference where the theme Population and Environment will receive special attention.
Simultaneous sessions are the core of the conference program. The deadline for the submission of an abstract is 31 December 2009. Submissions should be made to one of the conference topics which will be developed into a series of sessions by the Convener. The list of themes is available via the Sessions by Topic link on the menu bar above.
When you are ready to submit a paper or poster please come to this website and follow the Login/Registration link on the toolbar. Please ensure that your contact information is accurate. Then select "submit a paper" on the switchboard. You will be asked to enter the title, authors, and a short (300 word) abstract. You are also required to upload an extended (2-4 page) abstract, or the complete paper, either in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word document format. Finally, you must select a session and whether or not you would like your paper to be considered for a poster session.
You can return to this site at any time until 31 December 2009 to edit or update the information you have provided. The working language of the Conference is English.
At the EPC 2010 only one submission as a first author is allowed; participants may, however, co-author other papers/presentations. Authors will be informed about acceptance of their paper by March 2010.
