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OPR
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
OPR
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
Annual Report 2007
Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609.258.4870
Fax: 609.258.1039
Email: news@opr.princeton.edu
Website: opr.princeton.edu
Research • Seminars • Publications • Training • Course Offerings • Alumni Directory
OPR 2007 Annual Report
Edited by
Judith Tilton
Designed by
THINK Communications Group
Printed by
Color House
The OPR Annual Report is
published annually by the Office
of Population Research, Princeton
University, Wallace Hall,
Princeton, NJ 08544.
Copyright © 2008 Office of
Population Research.
OPR
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
Annual Report 2007
Table of Contents
From the Director ......................................................................2
OPR Staff and Students ............................................................4
Center for Research on Child Wellbeing ..................................11
Center for Health and Wellbeing ............................................13
Center for Migration and Development ..................................15
OPR Financial Support............................................................17
OPR Library ............................................................................19
OPR Seminars ........................................................................21
OPR Research ..........................................................................22
Children and Families ................................................................22
Data and Methods ....................................................................26
Health and Wellbeing ................................................................28
Migration and Urbanization ......................................................39
Social Inequality ........................................................................42
OPR Professional Activities ....................................................47
2007 Publications ....................................................................54
Working Papers ..........................................................................54
Publications and Papers..............................................................55
Training in Demography at Princeton ....................................68
Ph.D. Program ..........................................................................68
Departmental Degree in Specialization in Population........................68
Joint-Degree Program ................................................................68
Certificate in Demography ........................................................69
Training Resources ....................................................................69
Courses ......................................................................................70
Recent Graduates ......................................................................77
Graduate Students......................................................................78
Alumni Directory ....................................................................83
Princeton University 1
From the Director
I was privileged to serve as the system of social mobility influence the extent to
Acting Director of OPR for the which people invest in schooling, with a focus on
2007-08 academic year while understanding the social psychological determinants of
James Trussell spent a very the racial achievement gap. Matt Salganik (Sociology)
well-deserved sabbatical in examines problems at the intersection of social networks
England. I am delighted to and statistics. This work includes the development of
report on the large expansion respondent-driven sampling, a snowball sampling
and diversification of OPR method for studying hidden populations that is currently
faculty associates that has being used by the CDC for a study of drug injectors
taken place: six new faculty members have joined in the 25 largest US cities, and use of the Internet to
OPR during the past year and four more scholars conduct innovative social research. Sam Schulhofer-Wohl’s
will become faculty associates in the coming months. (Economics) research focuses on methods for age-
period-cohort analysis, one of the longest-standing
Dan Notterman, a Senior Research Scientist in
methodological problems in demography. In recent
Molecular Biology, came to Princeton in the fall of
papers, Schulhofer-Wohl and colleagues use simulations
2007 from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
and applied examples to examine the properties of the
where he was University Professor and Chair of
intrinsic estimator (IE) for additive age-period-cohort
Pediatrics. His research has focused on the molecular
models. Rafaela Dancygier‘s (Politics) research examines
events that underlie cancer. At OPR, he is working on
the integration of immigrants in Western Europe,
gene-environment interactions related to depression and
particularly Great Britain, Germany, and France. She
other aspects of psychological wellbeing in the Fragile
investigates the political and economic conditions
Families and Taiwan projects. Joao Biehl, an Associate
associated with conflict between immigrants and
Professor in Anthropology, is a medical anthropologist
members of the native population and between
whose recent books have examined AIDS among the
immigrants and the state.
socially abandoned in Brazil. His current research
examines the widespread use of pharmaceuticals in Adding to our good fortune, four colleagues will be
poor urban households in Brazil, the distribution of coming to OPR in the 2008-09 academic year. Eddie
and adherence to antiretroviral drug-treatments in Telles and Ana Maria Goldani will be leaving UCLA to
resource-poor settings, and the influence of the environment join the Sociology Department this fall. Eddie Telles is
and life histories on pathogenic gene expression. interested in ethnicity, race and caste in international
perspective, and the historical demography of urbanization
Four new assistant professors became OPR faculty
in western U.S. cities. Ana Maria Goldani’s research
associates this past year. Angel Harris (Sociology) studies
examines issues related to family, gender, and public
how perceptions about the opportunity structure and
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ANNUAL REPORT 2007
policy in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. Taryn served as Director of Graduate Studies during the past
Dinkelman, who will be become an Assistant Professor year and to Marta Tienda, who will assume the position
of Economics in the fall, is involved in research on in the fall.
South Africa, where she has examined the effects of
Despite these successes, we are very sorry to have lost
rural electrification on employment, the long-term
three of our esteemed colleagues. Joshua Goldstein left
negative effects of being born during a drought on the
Princeton to become director of the Max Planck
health and human capital of boys, and the relationship
Institute for Demographic Research and head of the
between negative economic shocks and risky sexual
Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography in
behavior of young people. OPR’s most recent addition
Rostock, Germany. Bruce Western joined Harvard as
is Georges Reniers, who will join the Sociology
Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Department and the Woodrow Wilson School as an
Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social
assistant professor in the spring semester of 2009.
Policy of Kennedy School of Government. Adriana
Reniers comes to Princeton by way of the Institute of
Lleras-Muney will join UCLA in the fall of 2008 as
Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado and
Associate Professor of Economics. We wish them success
the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
in their new positions.
His main interests are in morbidity and mortality in
developing countries, having had fieldwork experience
in Belgium, Ethiopia, Malawi, and South Africa. His
recent work focuses on the measurement of HIV/AIDS
mortality and marital strategies for regulating exposure Noreen Goldman, Director
to HIV. Office of Population Research
OPR has also been fortunate to have experienced a third Princeton University
consecutive year of a very strong Ph.D. applicant pool,
yielding a large number of doctoral candidates admitted
into OPR through one of our allied fields or directly
through the population program. We currently have
35 doctoral students in the program. Three doctoral
students who just completed their degrees (Samir
Soneji, Christine Percheski, and Chris Wildemann) have
each received a prestigious RWJ postdoctoral fellowship.
OPR’s postdoctoral program continues to flourish,
averaging about 12 postdoctoral fellows working on a
broad range of projects related to health, children and
family, educational stratification, and immigration each
year. We owe a special thanks to Betsy Armstrong, who
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PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 3OPR Staff and Students January – December 2007
Directors Thomas Espenshade, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D.,
James Trussell (1/07-6/07) Economics, Princeton University, 1972. Interests: highly
Noreen Goldman (7/07-12/07) skilled U.S. immigrants, immigrant incorporation, fiscal
impacts of immigration, minority higher education,
Directors of Graduate Studies inter-group relations on college campuses.
Noreen Goldman (1/07-6/07)
Elizabeth Armstrong (7/07-12/07) Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Lecturer in Sociology. Ph.D.,
Sociology, Rutgers University, 1981. Interests: international
Faculty Associates economic development, industrial restructuring, gender/
Jeanne Altmann, Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology and class/ethnicity, migration/global economy, women/ethnic
Evolutionary Biology. Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences, University minorities in the labor force.
of Chicago, 1979. Interests: non-experimental research design
and analysis, ecology and evolution of family relationships Noreen Goldman, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography
and of behavioral development; primate demography and life and Public Affairs. D.Sc., Population Studies, Harvard
histories, parent-offspring relationships; infancy and the University, 1977. Interests: social inequalities in health;
ontogeny of behavior and social relationships, conservation physiological linkages among stress, social status, and health;
education and behavioral aspects of conservation. immigrant health; survey design.
Elizabeth Armstrong, Associate Professor of Sociology and Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public
Public Affairs. Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, University Affairs. Ph.D., Demography, University of California,
of Pennsylvania, 1998. M.P.A. Princeton University, 1993. Berkeley, 1996. Interests: social demography, family
Interests: sociology of medicine, history of medicine and demography, methodology, historical demography, race
public health, biomedical ethics, population health, sociology and ethnicity.
of pregnancy.
Jean Grossman, Lecturer in Economics and Public Affairs.
João Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Ph.D., Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. 1980. Interests: youth policy, program and policy
Interests: medical anthropology, social studies of science and evaluation, poverty.
technology, Latin American societies.
Angel Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African
Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics American Studies. Ph.D., Public Policy & Sociology,
and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, University of Michigan, 2005. Interests: social psychology,
1988. Interests: development economics, health economics, sociology of education, survey research methods, race and
economics of the family. ethnicity, quantitative data analysis, public policy analysis.
Rafaela Dancygier, Assistant Professor in Politics and Public Alan Krueger, Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and
and International Affairs. Ph.D., Political Science, Yale Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and
University, 2007. Interests: comparative politics, comparative Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1987.
political economy, immigration, ethnic politics, ethnic conflict. Interests: labor economics, industrial relations, social insurance.
Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Adriana Lleras-Muney, Assistant Professor of Economics and
International Affairs, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University,
International Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Cambridge 2001. Interests: children’s education, child labor laws,
University, 1974. Interests: microeconomic analysis, applied population health issues.
econometrics, economic development.
Scott Lynch, Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D.,
Sociology, Duke University, 2001. Interests: social epidemiology,
quantitative methodology, demography and sociology of aging.
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Douglas Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology Matthew Salganik, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Ph.D.,
and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton University, Sociology, Columbia University, 2007. Interests: social
1978. Interests: demography, urban sociology, race and networks, sociology of culture, social inequality, social
ethnicity, international migration, Latin American society, psychology, and quantitative methods.
particularly Mexico.
Samuel A. Schulhofer-Wohl, Assistant Professor in Economics
Sara S. McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago,
and Public Affairs. Director, Bendheim-Thoman Center for 2007. Interests: economic development, macroeconomics and
Research on Child Wellbeing. Ph.D., Sociology, University applied econometrics.
of Texas, Austin, 1979. Interests: family demography,
Lee Silver, Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs.
intergenerational relationships, poverty and inequality.
Ph.D., Biophysics, Harvard University, 1978. Interests: policy
Katherine Newman, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of issues and social implications of new genetic and reproductive
1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D., technologies, bioethics, genetic testing, cloning, genetic
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1979. engineering, egg and sperm vending.
Interests: social stratification, urban poverty, and urban life.
Burton Singer, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of
Dan Notterman, Senior Health Policy Analyst, Molecular Public and International Affairs, Professor of Demography
Biology; Lecturer in Molecular Biology. M.D., New York and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Statistics, Stanford University,
University School of Medicine, 1978. Interests: research in 1967. Interests: epidemiology of tropical diseases, demography
tumor biology, bioethics, gene-environment interactions. and economics of aging, health, and social consequences of
economic development, the interrelationships between
Devah Pager, Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., genetics and historical demography.
Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002. Interests:
employment discrimination, racial inequality, social Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic
stratification, prisoner reentry. Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D.,
Sociology, The University of Texas, Austin, 1977. Interests:
Christina Paxson, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics. population and development, youth employment and labor
Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing. Ph.D., market dynamics, race and ethnic stratification, access to
Economics, Columbia University, 1987. Interests: economic higher education.
development, applied microeconomics.
James Trussell, John Foster Dulles Professor in International
Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Affairs, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D.,
Beck Professor of Sociology. Director, Center for Migration Economics, Princeton University, 1975. Interests: reproductive
and Development. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, health, fertility, contraceptive technology, AIDS, mortality,
Madison, 1970. Interests: immigration, economic sociology, demographic methods.
comparative development, Third World urbanization.
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology,
Germán Rodríguez, Senior Research Demographer. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Interests: labor
Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, 1975. Interests: markets, stratification, demographic methods.
statistical demography, fertility surveys, survival analysis,
multilevel models, demographic and statistical computing, Charles F. Westoff, Maurice P. During ’22 Professor, Emeritus,
design and deployment of databases on the web. Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. Ph.D., Sociology, University of
Pennsylvania, 1953. Interests: abortion and family planning,
comparative fertility in developing countries, fertility surveys.
Jeanne Joshua Katherine Samuel A. Lee Silver Bruce Western
Altmann Goldstein Newman Schulhofer-Wohl
PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 5OPR Staff and Students
Postdoctoral Fellows Joanna Kempner, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D.,
Audrey Beck, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. Interests:
Sociology, Duke University, 2007. Interests: family formation, sociology of medicine, health policy, gender, science,
education, contextual effects, juvenile delinquency, and racial bioethics, and qualitative methods.
and ethnic inequality.
Sarah Meadows, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D.,
Alison Buttenheim, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University, 2005. Interests: mental health, stress
Public Health, University of California-Los Angeles, 2007. and coping, adolescent health and wellbeing, marriage and health,
Interests: child health and nutritional status, forced life course, gender, criminology and juvenile delinquency.
migration, and infectious disease.
Margarita Mooney, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D.,
Amy Love Collins, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton University, 2004. Interests: international
Developmental Psychology, Boston College, 2006. Interests: migration, development, religion, culture, and higher education.
aging, health, wellbeing.
Caroline Moreau, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Ph.D.,
Carey Cooper, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Public Health (Epidemiology), University of Paris, 2005.
Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Interests: contraceptive effectiveness, abortion, emergency
Interests: child wellbeing, poverty, family structure, parenting, contraception.
and education.
Sunny Niu, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D.,
Michelle DeKlyen, Research Staff. Ph.D., Child Clinical Economics of Education, Stanford University, 2002. Interests:
Psychology, University of Washington, 1992. Interests: child issues in education, research design, employment, and income
development, early child behavior disorders, child learning distribution and occupational choice.
disabilities.
Kimberly Torres, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D.,
Gniesha Dinwiddie, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. Interests: race
Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. Interests: race and ethnicity, education, inequality.
and ethnicity, sociology of medicine, sociology of education,
Lisa Wynn, Associate Research Scholar. Ph.D., Anthropology,
social psychology.
Princeton University, 2003. Interests: emergency contraception
Thurston Domina, Postdoctoral Research Associate. in the Middle East, gender, nationalism and identity.
Ph.D. Sociology, Graduate School and University Center,
Visiting Scholars
City University of New York, 2006. Interests: inequality and
Alicia Adsera, Visiting Associate Professor of Public Affairs,
the expansion of higher education, social geography, sociology
Woodrow Wilson School; Associate Professor, University of
of education.
Illinois-Chicago. Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, 1996.
Jenny Higgins, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Interests: fertility and household formation, migration, and
Women's Studies, MPH, Global Health, Emory University, international political economy.
2005. Interests: gender, sexuality, reproductive health, and
Steven Elías Alvarado, Visiting Research Student
HIV/AIDS.
Collaborator; Intern, Mathematica Policy Research.
Margot Jackson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Ph.D., M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Sociology, UCLA, 2007; B.A., Community Health, Brown Interests: immigration, stratification, education, health,
University, 2002. Interests: social stratification, health and quantitative methods.
child wellbeing.
Alicia Adsera Steven Elías Alvarado Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Pamela Klebanov Sarah Meadows Kimberly Torres
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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Visiting Research Collaborator; Pamela Klebanov, Visiting Research Collaborator; Research
Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development Scientist, Teachers College, Columbia University. Ph.D.,
and Education and Co-Director of the National Center for Social Psychology, Princeton University, 1989. Interests: child
Children and Families, Teacher’s College, Columbia University. development, poverty, parenting.
Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Mary Clare Lennon, Visiting Research Collaborator;
Columbia University. Ph.D., Human Learning and
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School
Development, University of Pennsylvania, 1975. Interests: child
of Public Health Columbia University. Ph.D., Sociology,
development, child wellbeing, parenting, education, poverty.
Columbia University. Interests: relation of gender to physical
Marcia Carlson, Visiting Fellow; Associate Professor, Social and mental health, family and the workplace, wellbeing of
Work and Sociology, Columbia University. Ph.D., Sociology, low-income women and children.
University of Michigan, 1999. Interests: family structure,
Ceri Peach, Visiting Fellow; Professor of Social Geography
parenting, father involvement, child wellbeing, poverty and
Fellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Ph.D.,
inequality, welfare policy.
Geography, Merton College, Oxford University, 1964.
Carlos Gonzalez-Sancho, Visiting Research Collaborator; Interests: migration, ethnic and religious segregation in cities,
Ph.D. Student, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain. J.A., immigration, ethnicity.
Sociology, Juan March Institute, 2005. Interests: stratification,
Nancy Reichman, Visiting Research Collaborator; Associate
marriage patterns, family behavior, and education.
Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
John Hobcraft, Visiting Research Scholar. (Joint CRCW Ph.D., Economics, City University of New York, 1993. Interests:
and CHW); Professor of Population Studies, Chairman, health economics, poverty, immigration, and infant health.
Population Investigation Committee, and Chairman, The
Magaly Sanchez, Visiting Scholar; Professor, Instituto de
Methodology Institute, London School of Economics. B.Sc.,
Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Ph.D.,
Economics, London School of Economics and Political
Sociology, École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales,
Science, 1966. Interests: comparative analysis, comparative
University of Paris. Interests: transnational identities, first and
health policy, consequences, demographic analysis,
second generation Latino migrant youths, urban violence,
determinants, dynamics, family, fertility, household change,
social exclusion, inequalities and poverty, youth gangs, barrios
mortality, population, survey analysis.
in Latin America.
Michael Hout, Visiting Research Scholar; Chair, Graduate
Ayumi Takenaka, Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor,
Group in Sociology and Demography, Population Center,
Department of Sociology, Bryn Mawr College. Ph.D.,
U.C. Berkeley. Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, 1976.
Sociology, Columbia University, 2000. Interests: migration,
Interests: sociological demography, ethnicity, education,
ethnicity, social mobility, transnationalism.
political change, sociology of religion, quantitative methods.
Kathleen Kiernan, Visiting Research Scholar. (Joint CRCW
and CHW); Professor of Social Policy and Demography,
University of York, and Co-Director, ESRC Centre for
Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics.
Ph.D., University of London, 1987. Interests: childbearing
and cohabitation outside marriage, children, divorce, family
change, long-term outcomes, parenthood, teenage
motherhood, transition.
John Hobcraft Michael Hout Kathleen Kiernan Mary Clare Lennon Ceri Peach Nancy Reichman
PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 7OPR Staff and Students
Administrative Staff Students
Melanie Adams, Academic Assistant Sofya Aptekar, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2004.
Nancy Cannuli, Associate Director B.A., Sociology, Yale University, 2001. Interests: culture, race,
Mary Lou Delaney, Program Assistant immigration, native-language retention, and cultural
Kris Emerson, Program Manager, CRCW supplemental education.
Regina Leidy, Program Assistant, CRCW
Pratikshya Bohra, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall
Joyce Lopuh, Purchasing and Accounts Administrator
2006. BA., Economics and Mathematics, Union College, 2003.
Kristen Matlofsky, Academic Assistant
Interests: poverty, migration, labor markets, resource allocation.
Judie Miller, Academic Assistant
Robin Pispecky, Financial Administrator Sharon Bzostek, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2004.
Diana Sacké, Academic Assistant B.A., Sociology and Policy Studies, Rice University, 2001.
Judith Tilton, Graduate Program Administrator Interests: children and families, inequality in health care and
health status, poverty, race and ethnicity.
Computing Staff
Wayne Appleton, System Administrator, Stacie Carr, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2006.
UNIX Systems Manager MPA., New York University, 2006. BA., Women’s Studies,
Chang Y. Chung, Programmer UC Berkeley, 1994. Interests: health, inequality, modeling.
Jennifer Curatola, Assistant System Administrator
Rebecca Casciano, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall
Dawn Koffman, Programmer
2003. M.P.A., Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2003.
Thu Vu, Programmer
B.A., Psychology, The College of New Jersey, 2001. Interests:
poverty, welfare, culture, marriage, religion, ethics and
Library Staff politics, sociology, and demography.
Elana Broch, Assistant Population Research Librarian
Joann Donatiello, Population Research Librarian Audrey Dorelien, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall
Michiko Nakayama, Library Assistant 2007. B.A., Swarthmore College, Economics and Biology,
Nancy Pressman-Levy, Librarian, Donald E. Stokes Library 2004. Interests: economic development, population
dynamics, health, GIS applications.
Research/Technical Staff
Kate Bartkus, Project Analyst, CRCW Nicholas Ehrmann, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall
Donnell Butler, Project Director 2003. B.A., American Studies, Northwestern University,
Kevin Bradway, Research Specialist, CRCW 2000. Interests: economic inequality, schooling patterns,
Meridel Bulle, Research Specialist, CRCW immigration, poverty issues, and family dynamics.
Kelly Cleland, Research Specialist Julia Gelatt, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2007.
Monica Higgins, Research Specialist B.A., Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton College, 2004.
Jean Knab, Data Manager, CRCW Interests: U.S. immigration, immigrant integration, demography,
Jennifer Martin, Project Manager gender, social inequality.
Karen Pren, Project Manager, MMP/LAMP
Magaly Sanchez, Senior Field Coordinator, LAMP Elizabeth A Gummerson, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered
William Schneider, Research Specialist, CRCW Fall 2006. MPA., Health and Health Policy, Princeton
University, 2006. BA., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania,
1997. Interests: poverty, health policy, wellbeing, inequality.
Nancy Cannuli Mary Lou Kris Emerson Robin Pispecky Diana Sacké Judith Tilton
Delaney
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Conrad Hackett, Department of Sociology. Entered 2001. Kevin O’Neil, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2005.
B.A., Seattle Pacific University. M.A., Princeton Theological B.A., Economics, Swarthmore College, 2001. Interests:
Seminary. Interests: how individuals and institutions are urbanization, migration and development policy, economic
responding to, and being shaped by, religious pluralism sociology.
in America.
Christine Percheski, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall
Valerie Lewis, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2005. B.A., 2003. B.A., Sociology, Dartmouth University, 2001. Interests:
Sociology, Rice University, 2004. Interests: racial inequality, sociology of the family, the life course, occupations and work,
urban sociology, poverty, and development. social inequalities, and social policy.
Tin-chi Lin, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2006. Michelle Phelps, Sociology. Entered Fall 2007. B.A., Social
MS., Applied Mathematics, Taiwan University, 2004. BS., psychology, University of California-Berkeley, 2005. Interests:
Mathematics, Taiwan University, 2001. Interests: mortality, social control and deviance, legal sociology, criminal justice
fertility, health, modeling. system, inequality.
Emily Marshall, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2005. David Potere, Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall
BA., Russian Studies, Pomona College, 2000. Interests: economic 2005. M.A., Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS, Boston
modeling, education, family networking, stratification. University, 2005. B.A., American History, Harvard College,
1998. Interests: application of remote sensing to population
Emily Moiduddin, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall and environmental issues, GIS, health and development in
2003. M.P.P., Harris School, University of Chicago, 2001. developing countries.
B.A., Psychology, New York University, 1999. Interests:
poverty, children, and the family. Alejandro Rivas, Jr., Department of Sociology. Entered Fall
2006. MA., Sociology, Stanford University, 2006. BA.,
Petra Nahmias, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2004. Health and Health Policy, Stanford University, 2006.
B.A., Environmental Science, Hebrew University, 1997. M.A., Interests: immigration, poverty, inequality, assimilation.
Demography, Hebrew University, 2001. Interests: fertility,
reproductive health, religion and fertility, and immigration. Rania Salem, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall 2005.
M.S.C., Sociology, Oxford University, 2004. B.A., Politics,
S. Heidi Norbis, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall American University in Cairo, 2001. Interests: social inequality,
2007. M.P.H., Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia gender, marriage and the family, migration.
University, 2007; B.A., Latin American Studies, Barnard
College, 2001. Interests: migrant health, reproductive health, Daniel Schneider, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall
health policy. 2006. BA., Politics and Public Policy, Brown University,
2003. Interests: poverty, inequality, social demography, social
Analia Olgiati, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall 2006. networks, institutions and social capital.
BA., Economics, San Andres University, 2002. Interests:
household economics, migration, survey design, and Wendy Sheldon, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall
mathematical demography. 2007. M.P.H., Maternal and Child Health, University of
California-Berkeley, 2000; M.S.W., Social Policy and Practice,
Jayanti Owens, Sociology. Entered Fall 2007. B.A., Policy University of Pennsylvania, 1996; B.A., Psychology, Bucknell
Science, Sociology, and Educational Studies, Swarthmore University, 1993. Interests: reproductive health and rights,
College, 2006. Interests: inequality, stratification and social health and nutrition, economic development, women’s
mobility, higher education, education policy, immigration. empowerment, environment, education.
Wayne Appleton Kate Bartkus Donnell Butler Kelly Cleland Nancy William Schneider
Pressman-Levy 9
PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 9OPR Staff and Students
Kimberly Smith, Woodrow Wilson School. Entered Fall Scott Washington, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall
2004. B.A., Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2000. B.A., Sociology and Philosophy, University of
1992. M.P.A., Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2000. California, Berkeley, 2000. Interests: social classification; race
Interests: health policy and economics, reproductive health and ethnicity; state formation and state information; science;
and family planning, and policy and program evaluation. culture; epistemology; education; stratification; law; violence;
extreme systems of social control, confinement, and
Samir Soneji, Program in Population Studies. Entered Fall supervision; urban marginality and the social uses, arrangement,
2004. B.S., Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1998. M.A., and configuration of space; politics; historiography; social
Statistics, Columbia University, 2000. Interests: migration,
psychology; the body; and classical and contemporary social
urban poverty, and spatial statistics.
and sociological theory.
Naomi Sugie, Sociology. Entered Fall 2007. B.A., Urban
Christopher Wildeman, Department of Sociology. Entered
Studies, Columbia University, 2003. Interests: race,
Fall 2003. B.A., Philosophy, Sociology, and Spanish,
inequality, criminal justice system.
Dickinson College, 2002. Interests: crime and punishment,
LaTonya Trotter, Department of Sociology. Entered Fall religion, medicine, and life course analysis.
2006. MPH., Health and Health Policy, University of
Washington, 2006. BA., Sociology, Williams College, 1998.
Interests: immigration, inequality, health, stratification.
Erik Vickstrom, Sociology. Entered Fall 2007. B.A. Sociology
and American Studies, Wesleyan University, 1998. Interests:
international migration and development, inequality,
social networks.
10 OFFIC E OF POPULATION RESEARC HCenter for Research on Child Wellbeing
The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child CUNY Graduate Center), and Visiting Research Student and
Wellbeing (CRCW) was established in 1996 to promote basic Fullbright Scholarship Award recipient from Juan March
research on a broad range of children’s issues including child Institute in Madrid, Spain, Carlos Gonzalez-Sancho.
wellbeing, education, health, income security, and family/
CRCW engages in numerous activities designed to inform
community resources. The CRCW, directed by Sara
policymakers, program directors, and advocates about issues
McLanahan, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs,
related to families and child wellbeing. Written products
is affiliated with the Office of Population Research and the
include working papers, research briefs, policy briefs, and a
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
journal published twice yearly. All products are available on
at Princeton University. CRCW faculty and research associates are
the CRCW website and are distributed electronically and in
drawn from Princeton’s departments of economics, politics, and
print form to various advocacy groups, government officials,
sociology, as well as from other universities and institutions.
program administrators, individuals at
non-profit organizations and foundations,
and researchers at universities and think
tanks. The CRCW sponsors a number of
social science research projects, including
the landmark Fragile Families and Child
Wellbeing Study (FFCWB) and the Future
of Children journal/project.
Research
The Fragile Families
and Child Wellbeing Study
Directed by Sara McLanahan and Irv
Garfinkel (Columbia University), The
Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing
Study (FFCWB), is a longitudinal birth
Each year the CRCW supports a number of postdoctoral cohort study that began in 1998. The study collected data
fellows, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. from mothers, fathers, and children at the time of a child’s
Postdoctoral fellows at the Center this year included Sarah birth, and then one, three, and five years later. By including
Meadows (Sociology, Duke University), Carey Cooper an oversample of births to unmarried parents, the study
(Educational Psychology, University of Texas-Austin), and became a rich source of information about these growing but
Audrey Beck (Sociology, Duke University). During the past under-studied group of families. The study collected detailed
year, CRCW has also supported Visiting Fellows and Visiting data on parents’ relationships, economic circumstances,
Research Collaborators, including Jeanne Brooks-Gunn health, and health behaviors. The data collected by FFCWB
(Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development will allow researchers to test hypotheses about the effects of
and Education at Teachers’ College-Columbia University, and social norms, intergenerational influences, and economic
Director of the National Center for Children and Families), incentives (and negotiations) on family formation, father
Michael Hout (Professor, University of California, Berkeley) involvement, and the wellbeing of parents and children.
John Hobcraft (Anniversary Professor of Sociology and Public-use versions of the baseline, one-year, and three-year
Demography, University of York, England), Kathleen Kiernan follow-up FFCWB data are available in the archive of the
(Professor of Social Policy and Demography, University of Office of Population Research. In 2006, the study received a
York, England) Pamela Klebanov (Research Scientist, Columbia $17 million dollar grant from NICHD to begin another round
University), Mary Clare Lennon (Professor of Sociology, of interviews in 2007.
PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 11Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
The Fragile Families in Middle Childhood Study will Recent topics include the racial test gap, marriage and child
re-interview families when the children are nine years old. wellbeing, childhood obesity, social mobility, teacher quality,
This new grant funds the core interviews with parents, as childhood poverty, and electronic media. Complementing
well as the detailed child assessments and teacher interviews the publication of each journal is a series of outreach
(previously funded by separate studies.) The principal programs, designed to inform key stakeholders about the
investigators of the Fragile Families in Middle Childhood Study are children’s policy issue covered in the volume. Outreach
Sara McLanahan, Christina Paxson, Irv Garfinkel (Columbia activities include a practitioners’ conference, Congressional
University) and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Teachers’ College). briefings, press conferences, university lectures and
courses, and stakeholders seminars. The journal’s website,
The Future of Children Project
www.futureofchildren.org, allows visitors to access the
The Future of Children, a leading publication on children’s
journals, policy briefs, video and audio web casts of
policy in the United States, is a joint production of Princeton
journal-related events—all free of charge. Funding for
University and the Brookings Institution. Sara McLanahan is
the journal is provided by a number of foundations, the
the editor-in-chief, and senior editors include Christina
Woodrow Wilson School, and Princeton University.
Paxson, director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing;
Cecilia Rouse, director of the WWS Education Research For more information on the CRCW, please see
Section; and Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, both Senior http://crcw.princeton.edu.
Fellows at the Brookings Institution. Elisabeth Donahue, a
lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School, is the executive
director of the journal. The journal’s main objective is to
provide high-level research that is useful and accessible
to policymakers, practitioners, students, and the media.
12 OFFIC E OF POPULATION RESEARC HCenter for Health and Wellbeing
The mission of the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) South Africa: Poverty, Inequality
is to foster research and teaching on health, wellbeing, and and Health
health policy. Since its inception, CHW has focused on two Integrated health and economic surveys
closely-related goals: to bring together and build up an active are being conducted in South Africa to
interdisciplinary community of researchers who work on investigate the links between health status and economic
health, wellbeing, and health policy; and to develop a status. This work is being done in collaboration with
high-quality teaching program in health policy in the researchers from the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Woodrow Wilson School’s graduate school. CHW sponsors Princeton and the University of Witwatersrand. The survey
seminars, conferences, and research meetings, runs a visiting instruments collect data on a range of traditional and
fellows program, and sponsors the Woodrow Wilson School’s non-traditional measures of wellbeing, including income and
graduate Certificate in Health and Health Policy (HHP). consumption, measures of health status (including mental
CHW currently has 24 faculty associates drawn from the health), morbidity, crime, social connectedness, intra-household
fields of anthropology, demography, epidemiology, economics, relationships, and direct hedonic measures of wellbeing.
history, molecular biology, neuroscience, politics, psychology,
and sociology. The associates are involved in a wide range of Udaipur Health Survey
research projects on health, wellbeing, and public policy. Members of around 1,000 households in 100 villages in the
Udaipur district of Rajasthan were surveyed and asked about
Research their economic activities, physical and mental health status,
Demography of Aging Center and experiences with healthcare. Complementary surveys
Funded by the National Institute of Aging, the Demography collected information about village infrastructure and about
of Aging Center fosters new research on the interrelationships the clinics and medical personnel that people use, including
between socioeconomic status and health as people age; traditional healers. The study aims to improve our
examines the determinants of decision-making and wellbeing understanding of the determinants of health, as well as the
among the elderly; and explores the determinants and policy relationships between health and economic status, and how
consequences of increased longevity and population aging they work together to determine wellbeing.
across and within countries over time. An area of special
emphasis is research on how HIV/AIDS is affecting the College Education and Health
health and living conditions of the elderly. This study of the impact of education on health outcomes
and behaviors among young adults has added a health
Center for Research on Experience and Wellbeing component to an assessment of a new and unique education
The overall objectives of the Center for Research on intervention, the Opening Doors experiment. Done in
Experience and Well Being (CREW), a National Institute collaboration with the Manpower Demonstration Research
of Aging Roybal Center, are to (1) develop new methods for Corporation (MDRC), Opening Doors provided 4,400
the measurement of wellbeing and health, and (2) use these economically disadvantaged young adults in a set of community
measures to better understand and document the experience colleges across the country with extra financial assistance,
of aging. The measures developed will be used to analyze how mentoring, and curricular enhancements, all aimed at increasing
different life circumstances and situations contribute to the their levels of educational attainment. The study will assess
overall quality of life across the life cycle. The combination of how the intervention affects health and health behaviors in
measurements of the affective experience of situations and the short run; how initial health affects progression through
activities with measurements of the time spent by the population college; and whether the intervention ameliorates adverse
in these activities, currently collected by the Department of effects of initial health on educational attainment.
Labor Statistics, will contribute to the development of an
experimental system of National Wellbeing Accounts.
PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 13Center for Health and Wellbeing
Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing Teaching
This project studies how parental resources affect children’s One of CHW’s goals is to expand the Woodrow Wilson
wellbeing, as measured by children’s health status and their School’s graduate-level teaching program in health and health
cognitive, social, and emotional development. The first aim of policy. The major vehicle for doing this is the Certificate in
this project is to examine how three broadly defined aspects Health and Health Policy (HHP), which graduate students
of parental resources—economic status, family structure, and earn by completing four courses—two required courses and
parental health (both mental and physical)—are related to two electives—on health-related topics. The HHP Certificate
each other. The second is to study how parental resources is directed by Elizabeth Armstrong, a medical sociologist who
affect the quality of parenting (discipline, warmth, supervision, is affiliated with CHW and OPR. The HHP program
and cognitive stimulation) and material resources (e.g., home sponsors a set of courses open to graduate students, as well as
learning materials, food security, neighborhood safety, and brown bag lunches and career panels for students. In the fall
access to medical care) that children receive. Finally, the of 2007, CHW admitted its first cohort of scholars under the
researchers are examining how all of these inputs, in turn, new Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars Program, which
affect children’s outcomes. A specific case study is on the provides outstanding Princeton students with funding for
determinants of childhood obesity, a preventable child travel and research to pursue global health-related internships
health outcome that is the precursor of adult obesity. and senior thesis research. The program, which is supported
by Merck & Company, Inc., is named in honor of Adel
Visiting Fellows
Mahmoud M.D., Ph.D. for his distinguished career at Merck
The Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) hosts visiting
& Company, Inc. and pioneering work in global health.
researchers each year and also has a postdoctoral fellows
program. CHW supports researchers from a variety of disciplines Conferences and Seminars
who work on the multiple aspects of health and wellbeing in CHW sponsors a research seminar series and a number of
both developed and developing countries. Visitors usually conferences each year. In 2007, it sponsored 20 seminars, a
spend an academic year or a semester in residence at colloquium on HIV/AIDS that was run by the Princeton
Princeton, during which time they conduct research and AIDS Initiative (part of CHW), and hosted the Tenth
participate in conferences, seminars, and other CHW events. BREAD Conference on Development Economics.
Visitors have the opportunity to teach in the Woodrow
Wilson School. For more information about CHW, see
http://weblamp.princeton.edu/chw.
14 OFFIC E OF POPULATION RESEARC HCenter for Migration and Development
The Center for Migration and Development (CMD) Immigrant Organizations and
sponsors a wide array of research, travel, and conference Political Incorporation
programs aimed at linking scholars with interests in the broad In response to recent well-publicized concerns about the
area of migration and community with national development. resistance to cultural and political assimilation by Latino
Of particular interest to CMD research is the relationship migrants, CMD has launched a new study of the ways in
between immigrant communities in the developed world which organizations created by these migrants orient themselves
and the growth and development prospects of the sending toward issues of U.S. citizenship acquisition, electoral
nations. The Center’s data archive and working papers series participation, and general political integration. The project is
provide readily available resources based on recent research based on an updated inventory of all organizations created by
conducted at Princeton. CMD provides a venue for regular Mexicans and other Latin American migrants and interviews with
scholarly dialogue about migration and development; serves leaders of the most important and representative of these groups.
as a catalyst for collaborative research on these topics; promotes
connections with other Princeton University programs, as The Second Generation in Spain:
well as with other neighboring institutions where scholars A Comparative Perspective
are conducting research in these fields; hosts workshops and After completing the Children of Immigrant Longitudinal
lectures focusing on the many aspects of international migration Study (CILS), the largest project of its kind in the United
and national development; sponsors awards for international States, CMD has launched a new line of research seeking to
travel and research; provides fellowship opportunities at replicate and extend the findings and theoretical models
Princeton for scholars with interests in these areas; enhances developed by the study in a European context. Spain has been
course offerings during regular terms for interested graduate selected for this replication because of its surging new second
and undergraduate students; maintains and makes available a generation population, its particular mix of nationalities, and
data archive of unique studies on the field of migration; and the good disposition of its authorities and academics to host
disseminates the findings of recent research through its this large-scale comparative project.
Working Paper Series. Success out of Disadvantage
Research in the Second Generation
Immigration Policy in the United States As a sequel to CILS, CMD initiated an investigation of
A line of inquiry focused on exploring best ways to resolve the factors that can lead second generation youths growing up in
current political impasse on immigration policy, finding ways poverty and disadvantage to overcome these obstacles in order
that best fit the economic needs of the nation while promoting to achieve an advanced education. The study takes advantage
the human and civil rights of the immigrant population. of the longitudinal character of CILS to identify a sample of
such exceptional cases during early adulthood. It is based on
Immigration and the Health System interviews with 50 of these respondents and their families
A line of research focused on the interface between a growing seeking to identify causes of their extraordinary careers
immigrant population with distinct health needs, language and achievement.
limitations, and low economic resources and the health
system of the United States. Ways in which this largely Institutions and Development
for-profit system copes with the health needs of the foreign- This is a theoretical and empirical inquiry on the role that
born and ways to improve this cultural and economic institutions play in processes of national development.
encounter are priorities of this investigation. The project is based on a tightly-defined, measurable
definition of institutions and as a comparative design
featuring detailed studies of five really-existing institutions in
five Latin American countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia,
Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
PRINC ETON UNIVERSITY 15Center for Migration and Development
Funding and Awards Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) and the
The Center sponsors an annual competition supporting Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project (CIEP).
research by Sociology faculty and students working in
Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor,
designated priority areas and others within its substantive
SUNY-Albany, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino
scope. Awards of up to $5,000 are made to deserving
Studies Center. Her areas of research interest have focused on
proposals to support international travel, document
international migration and transnationalism, including
acquisition, and other project-related expenses. The Center
historical patterns and global shifts, and the study of specific
also accepts nominations for the best senior thesis encompassing
contexts of exit and reception. Particular interests focus on
themes related to development and migration. Research
how world systemic forces shape transnationalism, the impact
support is available to deserving undergraduates to support
of transnational political involvement on national projects
thesis research relating to development and migration.
and identity formation, and how transnational relations
2007 Visiting Fellows challenge or reinforce power relations. Cervantes-Rodriguez
Cristina Escobar received her Ph.D. from the University of spent her sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow with the CMD.
California-San Diego. She comes to the CMD as a
Jorge Durand is Professor of Anthropology at the University
co-Principal Investigator, with Alejandro Portes, on the project
of Guadalajara and co-PI of the Mexican Migration Project
“Transnational Immigrant Organizations and Community
(MMP). Durand spent his sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow
Development.” The study is sponsored by the MacArthur
at the CMD analyzing data from the MMP. He is affiliated
Foundation and investigates transnational organizations
with the Centro de Investigaciones sobre los Movimientos
created by immigrants from the Dominican Republic,
Sociales at the University of Guadalajara and the author of
Mexico, and Colombia. Escobar recently completed a
Mas Alla de la Linea: Patrones Migratorios entre Mexico y
study of Colombian immigrant organizations in New Jersey,
Estados Unidos and El Norte Es Como el Mar.
New York, and Philadelphia.
2007 Colloquium Series
Donald Light, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at
This series features major presentations by CMD associated
the University of Medicine of New Jersey, is a CMD faculty
faculty and senior visiting scholars; these presentations are
associate working on a project on the relationships between
commonly co-sponsored by other programs in Sociology and
the health-delivery system and the health needs of the new
area studies.
immigrant population. Three metropolitan areas have been
targeted for this large comparative study: Miami, San Diego, For further information about the Center for
and Trenton. In collaboration with other CMD-affiliated faculty, Migration and Development, see their website at
Light launched this project in 2007. The study builds on http://cmd.princeton.edu/index.shtml.
expertise in fieldwork with immigrant populations built by the
16 OFFIC E OF POPULATION RESEARC HOPR Financial Support
The Office of Population Research gratefully Foundations and Private Organizations
acknowledges the generous support provided by the Berlex Laboratories
following public and private agencies:
• The Cost of Unintended Pregnancy in the
Federal Government Agencies United States
National Institutes of Health
• Biodemography of Health, Social Factors, and Life
Anne E. Casey Foundation
Challenge
• Fragile Families Research Brief Series
• Center for Research on Experience and Well Being
• Community Empowerment for Malaria Control in Africa
Teachers College - Columbia University
• Discrimination in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men
• Child Neglect Study
• Explanations of Racial Disparities in Active Life
• Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle
Childhood The Ford Foundation
• Graduate Program in Demography • Moving Beyond Michigan: Making the Most of Diversity
• Infrastructure for Population Research at Princeton • Percent Plans as Affirmative Action: Texas Higher
Education Opportunity Project
• Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing
• Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project: A Summer
• Population Research Center – Demography
Research Institute for Young Scholars
• Poverty, Inequality and Health in Economic
Development
The Fund for New Jersey
• Princeton Center for the Demography of Aging
• Fragile Families in Newark
• Public Use Data on Mexican Immigration
• The Relationship between College Education and Health
Healthcare Foundation of NJ
• Fragile Families Newark Project
National Science Foundation
• Collaborative Research: College Choice and
the Texas 10% Policy The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Doctoral Dissertation Research: From Migrant Social • The American Society of Emergency Contraception
Capital to Community Development: A Relational
Account of Migration, Remittance, and Inequality The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• CAREER: Toward Improving the Conceptualization and • Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
Measurement of Discrimination
• Fetal Personhood: The Raw Edge of Obstetrical Practice
• Collaborative Research: Migration and Social Dynamics – and Ethics
Unpacking the Black Box of Cumulative Causation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
U. S. Department of Justice
• Support for the Mexican Migration Project
• Investigating Prisoner Reentry: The Impact of Conviction
Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men
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