Below is a listing of Publications and News articles of the Center's faculty, affiliated researchers, fellows, and students.
Bow Street Bulletin (newsletter of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies):
Journal articles (Oct 2008-June 2009)
Mauricio Avendano
Avendano, Mauricio, Glymour, Maria, Banks, J., and Mackenbach, J. "Health Disadvantage in US Adults Aged 50 to 74 Years: A Comparison of the Health of Rich and Poor Americans With That of Europeans." American Journal of Public Health. March 2009, Vol 99, No. 3.
Lisa Berkman
Berkman, Lisa. "Social Epidemiology: Social Determinants of Health in the United States: Are We Losing Ground?" Annu. Rev. Public Health 2009. 30:27-41
Berkman LF, Sivaramakrishnan K. WHO Commission on the social determinants of health: a bold new venture. Eur J Public Health. 2008 Dec;18(6):547.
Rehkopf DH, Berkman LF, Coull B, Krieger N. The non-linear risk of mortality by income level in a healthy population: US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey mortality follow-up cohort, 1988-2001.BMC Public Health. 2008 Nov 10;8:383.
Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Louise M. Ryan,Lisa F. Berkman, and Rosalind J. Wright. Cumulative violence exposure and self-rated health: longitudinal study of adolescents in the United States. Pediatrics, Vol. 122 No. 5 November 2008, pp. 961-970.
Ertel, Karen A.; Koenen, Karestan C.; Berkman, Lisa F. Incorporating Home Demands Into Models of Job Strain: Findings From the Work, Family, and Health Network. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 50(11):1244-1252, November 2008.
David E Bloom
Bärnighausen, Till, David E Bloom, David Canning, Jennifer O'Brien, "Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa," South African Medical Journal, 2008, Vol. 98(11), pp 242-246.
Bloom, David E. and David Canning, "Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance," Population and Development Review, 2008, Vol. 34 (S), pp. 17-51.
Bloom David E., David Canning and Guenther Fink, "Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations," Science, 2008, Vol. 319, pp. 772 - 775.
Bloom, D.E., D. Canning, J. Finlay (2009) "Population Aging and Economic Growth in Asia," NBER-EASE Volume 19, The Demographic Transition in the Pacific Rim
David Canning
Mahal, Ajay, David Canning, Kunle Odumosu and Prosper Okonkwo, "Assessing the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian Households; a Propensity Score Matching Approach," AIDS, 2008, Vol. 22(S1), pp. 95-101.
Bärnighausen, Till, David E Bloom, David Canning, Jennifer O'Brien, "Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa," South African Medical Journal, 2008, Vol. 98(11), pp 242-246.
Bloom, David E. and David Canning, "Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance," Population and Development Review, 2008, Vol. 34 (S), pp. 17-51.
Bloom David E., David Canning and Guenther Fink, "Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations," Science, 2008, Vol. 319, pp. 772 - 775.
Bloom, D.E., D. Canning, J. Finlay (2009) "Population Aging and Economic Growth in Asia," NBER-EASE Volume 19
Amitabh Chandra
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Myths and Misconceptions about Health Insurance." Health Affairs 27.6 (September/October 2008).
Amitabh Chandra "Who You Are and Where You Live: Race and the Geography of Healthcare," Medical Care, February 2009.
Guenther Fink
Bloom David E., David Canning and Guenther Fink, "Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations," Science, 2008, Vol. 319, pp. 772 - 775.
Bergh, Andreas and Fink, Gunther. "Higher education, elite institutions and inequality," European Economic Review 53. 376-384, April 2009.
Jocelyn Finlay
Bloom, D.E., D. Canning, J. Finlay (2009) "Population Aging and Economic Growth in Asia," NBER-EASE Volume 19
Finlay, J. (2009) "Fertility Response to Natural Disasters: The Case of Three High Mortality Earthquakes". World Bank Policy Research Working Paper series, WPS4883
Maria Glymour
Avendano, Mauricio, Glymour, Maria, Banks, J., and Mackenbach, J. "Health Disadvantage in US Adults Aged 50 to 74 Years: A Comparison of the Health of Rich and Poor Americans With That of Europeans." American Journal of Public Health. March 2009, Vol 99, No. 3.
Sofia Gruskin
Gruskin S, Firestone R, MacCarthy S, Ferguson L. ‘HIV and Pregnancy Intentions: Do Services Adequately Respond to Women's Needs?' American Journal of Public Health, vol. 98, no. 10, pp. 1746-1750 (October 2008).
Chigwedere P, Seage III G, Gruskin S, Lee TH, Essex M. "Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa," JAIDS, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 410-415 (December 2008).
Nunn A, Fonseca ED, Gruskin S. ‘Changing Global Essential Medicines Norms to Improve Access to AIDS Treatment: Lessons from Brazil,' Global Public Health, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 131-149 (March 2009)
Allan Hill
Stoler, Justin John R. Weeks, Arthur Getis, and Allan G. Hill (2009) A Distance Threshold for the Effect of Urban Agriculture on Elevated Self-reported Malaria Prevalence in Accra, Ghana. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Apr;80(4):547-54.
Clark, Cari Jo, Allan G. Hill, Khelda Jabbar and Jay G. Silverman (2009) Violence During Pregnancy in Jordan: its Prevalence and Associated Risk and Protective Factors. Violence against Women. March.
Adanu RMK, Hill AG, Seffah J, Darko R, Anarfi J, Duda RB. (2008) Sexually transmitted infections and health seeking behaviour among Ghanaian women in Accra. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 12(3):151-159.
Adanu RMK, Seffah J, Hill AG, Darko R, Anarfi J, Duda RB. (2008) Contraceptive use by women in Accra, Ghana: Results from the 2003 Women's Health Survey. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 13(1): 129-139
Ken Hill
Hill, Kenneth, Bernardo L Queiroz, Laura Wong, Jorge Plata, Fabiana Del Popolo, Jimmy Rosales & Cynthia Stanton (2009) Estimating pregnancy-related mortality from census data: experience in Latin America. Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol.87 No. 4: 288-295
Gary King
King, Gary; Emmanuela Gakidou; Kosuke Imai; Jason Lakin; Ryan T. Moore; Clayton Nall; Nirmala Ravishankar; Manett Vargas; Martha María Téllez-Rojo; Juan Eugenio Hernández Ávila; Mauricio Hernández Ávila; and Héctor Hernández Llamas. "Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomised Assessment of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program.' The Lancet, Vol. 373 (25 April 2009): 1447-1454.
Lazer, David; Alex Pentland; Lada Adamic; Sinan Aral; Albert-László Barabási; Devon Brewer; Nicholas Christakis; Noshir Contractor; James Fowler; Myron Gutmann; Tony Jebara; Gary King; Michael Macy; Deb Roy; Marshall Van Alstyne, "Computational Social Science,' Science Vol. 323, No. 5915 (6 February 2009): Pp. 721-723.
Imai, Kosuke; Gary King; and Clayton Nall. "The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Evaluation,' [with discussion], Statistical Science, forthcoming, 2009.
King, Gary and Langche Zeng. "Empirical versus Theoretical Claims about Extreme Counterfactuals: A Response,' Political Analysis, Vol. 17 (2009): Pp. 107-112
Murray, Megan and Gary King. "The Effects of International Monetary Fund Loans on Health Outcomes,' PLoS Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 7 (2008), e162.
King, Gary. "The Changing Evidence Base of Social Science Research,' in Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie, eds., The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives New York: Routledge Press, 2009, forthcoming.
Imai, Kosuke; Gary King; and Olivia Lau. "Toward A Common Framework for Statistical Analysis and Development,' Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2008): Pp. 892-913.
King, Gary; Ori Rosen; Martin Tanner; and Alexander F. Wagner, "Ordinary Economic Voting Behavior in the Extraordinary Election of Adolf Hitler,' Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68, No. 4 (December, 2008): Pp. 951-996.
Imai, Kosuke; Gary King; and Elizabeth Stuart, "Misunderstandings among Experimentalists and Observationalists about Causal Inference,' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 171, Part 2 (2008): Pp. 1-22.
Kate McLaughlin
McLaughlin, Kate, & Hatzenbuehler, M. (2009). Mechanisms linking stressful life events and mental health problems in a prospective, community-based sample of adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 01 February 2009, vol./is. 44/2(153-160)
Hatzenbuehler, M., McLaughlin, Kate, & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2008). "Emotion regulation and internalizing symptoms in a longitudinal study of sexual minority and heterosexual adolescents" Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2008 Dec;49(12):1270-8.
Mark Schuster
Schuster MA, Corona R, Elliott MN, Kanouse DE, Eastman KL, Zhou AJ, Klein DJ. Evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, A new worksite-based parenting programme to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2008;337:a308.
Schuster Mark, Chung PJ, Elliott MN, Garfield CF, Vestal KD, Klein DJ. Perceived effects of leave from work and the role of paid leave among parents of children with special health care needs. Am J Public Health 2009;99:698-705.
Schuster Mark, Chung PJ, Elliott MN, Garfield CF, Vestal KD, Klein DJ. Awareness and use of California's paid family leave insurance among parents of chronically ill children. JAMA 2008;300:1047-1055
Szilagyi PG, Schuster MA, Cheng TL. The scientific evidence for child health insurance. Acad Pediatr 2009:9;4-6.
S. V. Subramanian
Yang YT, Mello MM, Subramanian S V, Studdert D. Relationship between malpractice litigation pressure and rates of cesarean section and vaginal birth after cesarean section Medical Care 2009, 47, 2: 234-242.
Subramanian S V, Selvaraj S. Social analysis of sex imbalance in India: before and after the implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009; 63, 3: 245-252.
Subramanian S V, Jones K, Kaddour A, Krieger N. Revisiting Robinson: the perils of individualistic and ecologic fallacy. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38, 2: 342-360.
Subramanian S V, Jones K, Kaddour A, Krieger N. The value of a historically informed multilevel analysis of Robinson's data. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009, 38, 2: 370-373.
Subramanian S V, Jun HJ, Kawachi I, Wright RJ. Contribution of Race/Ethnicity and Country of Origin to Variations in Lifetime Reported Asthma: Evidence for a Nativity Advantage. American Journal of Public Health 2009, 99, 4: 690-697.
Subramanian S V, Ackerson LK, Davey Smith G, John NA. Association of maternal height with child mortality, anthropometric failure and anemia in India. JAMA 2009 301, 16:1691-1701.
Sanchez-Vaznaugh EV, Kawachi I, Subramanian S V, Brisa SN, Acevedo-Garcia D. Do socioeconomic gradients in BMI vary by race/ethnicity, gender and birthplace? American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169, 9:1102-1112.
Kondo N, Kawachi I, Hirai H, Kondo K, Subramanian S V, Hanibuchi T, Yamagata Z. Relative deprivation and incident functional disability among older Japanese women and men: prospective cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009
Turrell G, Bentley R, Thomas LR, Jolley D, Subramanian S V, Kavanagh AM. A multilevel study of area socioeconomic status and food purchasing behavior. Public Health Nutrition 2009
Chow CK, Lock K, Teo K, Subramanian S V, McKee M, Yusuf S. Environmental and societal influences acting on cardiovascular risk factors and disease at a population level: a review. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009
Subramanian S V, Perkins JM. Are Republicans healthier than Democrats? International Journal of Epidemiology 2009
Almeida J, Molnar BE, Kawachi I, Subramanian S V. Ethnicity and Nativity Status as Determinants of Perceived Social Support: Testing the Concept of Familism. Social Science and Medicine 2009
Farahani M, Subramanian S V,Canning D. The effect of changes in health sector resources on infant mortality in the short-run and the long-run: a longitudinal econometric analysis. Social Science and Medicine 2009
Osypuk TL, Subramanian S V, Kawachi I, Acevedo-Garcia D. Is workplace smoking policy equally prevalent and equally effective for immigrants? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009
Metzenthin P, Helfricht S, Loerbroks A, Terris DD, Haug HJ, Subramanian S V, Fischer JE. A one-item subjective work stress assessment tool is associated with cortisol secretion levels in critical care nurses. Preventive Medicine 2009 .
Subramanian S V, Ertel K. Self-rated health may be adequate for broad assessments of social inequalities in health. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 38, 1: 319-320.
Mary Waters
Waters, Mary. "Social Science and Ethnic Options." Ethnicities, vol. 9 no. 1 March 2009. pp. 130-135.
Waters, Mary. "Counting and Classifying by Race: The American Debate." The Tocqueville Review-La Revue Tocqueville, Vol XXIX, no 1, 2008, pp. 1-21.
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (co-authored with Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf and Jennifer Holdaway) Harvard University Press, 2008.
News Articles
Newsweek, February 23, 2009. "The Confidence Gap Why the Obama administration needs to restore public faith in the safety of childhood vaccines." Co-written by Heidi Larson, research associate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Full article - http://www.newsweek.com/id/185986/page/2
Science, January 23, 2009. "Social science: With isolation comes ill health" Featuring the research on social isolation conducted by Lisa Berkman, Director of the HCPDS.
New York Magazine, November 23, 2008. "Alone Together." Featuring the research on social isolation conducted by Lisa Berkman, Director of the HCPDS. - http://nymag.com/news/features/52450/