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CPIPR Articles and News Releases
Aging
Elderly White Men Afflicted by High Suicide Rates (August 2006)
How to Be Healthy in Old Age? Start With a Healthy Childhood (February 2004)
Early Retirement May Increase Risk of Old-Age Poverty (May 2003)
Education
School Achievement Higher for Children in Nuclear Families Than for Children in Blended or Single-Parent Families (January 2005)
School Achievement Gains Among Immigrant Youth Keep Pace With Natives From Similar Family Backgrounds (November 2003)
School-Age Children in Welfare Families Complete Less Education (February 2003)
Environment
In Harm’s Way: Hurricanes, Population Trends and Environmental Change (October 2004)
Gender
Feminization of Migration (December 2006)
Health
Clean Water Cut U.S. Deaths Dramatically in Early 1900s; Similar Impact Possible in World's Poorest Countries (March 2005)
Conflict Chips Away at Living Conditions in Sudan (June 2004)
Mothers' Smoking, Alcohol Use, Health Problems Take Higher Toll on African-American Newborns (November 2003)
Welfare Work Requirements Limit Breastfeeding (August 2003)
Women Catching Up to Men in Lung Cancer Deaths: Gender Equality? (February 2003)
Immigration/Migration
The Divergent Paths of Baby Boomers and Immigrants (March 2007)
Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America (December 2006)
New Data Reveal Widespread Disparities in U.S. State Poverty Rates (August 2006) (August 2005)
The Neglected Link Between Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity in Poor Neighborhoods (July 2006)
Americans Flocking to Outer Suburbs in Record Numbers (May 2006)
The Risk of Negative Child Outcomes in Low-Income Families (May 2006)
The Concentration of Negative Child Outcomes in Low-Income U.S. Neighborhoods (March 2006)
Mexican Welfare Payments Reduce U.S. Immigration (December 2005)
What the American Community Survey Tells Us About U.S. Immigration (December 2005)
Immigration and Assimilation (October 2005)
Why Concentrated Poverty Fell in the United States in the 1990s (August 2005)
U.S. Economic Inequality Through the Prisms of Income and Consumption (August 2005)
U.S. Immigrants More Educated than Non-Immigrants (March 2005)
Amnesty Programs: No Impact on Illegal Immigration (August 2003)
Current Mexican Immigrants Provide Key Link for Future Migrants (May 2003)
Income/Poverty
Gap Between Richest and Poorest Children Widening; Mothers’ Education/Employment, Fathers’ Involvement Key (January 2005)
Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, Economic Growth Reduced U.S. Poverty (February 2004)
Poverty Trends Depend Less on Family Structure, More on Overall Economy (August 2003)
Welfare Cuts Would Have Only Modest Impact on Unwed Births (February 2003)
Marriage/Family
The Crossover in Female-Male College Enrollment Rates (February 2007)
Do Parents Spend Enough Time With Their Children? (January 2007)
Families, Fathers and Demographic Change (October 2006)
What the American Community Survey Tells Us About Marriage and the Family (April 2006)
Marrying Up or Down Growing Rarer Among Americans, Study Finds (December 2005)
More U.S. Wives Outearning Their Husbands, But Not by Much (October 2005)
State Welfare Policies, Job Opportunities Drive Poor Families' Interstate Moves (August 2005)
Family Time Study Examines "Quality Time," Multitasking, Single-Parent Families, and Grandparent Care (June 2005)
New Marriages, New Families: U.S. Racial and Hispanic Intermarriage (June 2005)
Divorce’s Economic Toll Greater for Black Children than for White (March 2005)
Fathers Less Likely to Live With Infants in Poor Health (September 2004)
No Evidence Welfare Reform Led to More Marriages (June 2004)
Economic Resources, Supportive Relationships Linked to Marriage Among Unwed Parents (June 2004)
Marriage or Cohabitation: Women Gain Financially, Men Break Even (June 2004)
Growing Up With Fewer Siblings Linked to Greater Wealth in Adulthood (August 2003)
More Money Leads to Earlier Marriage for Young Men — But Not for Young Women (May 2003)
Child Support: Running Hard to Stay in the Same Place (February 2003)
Parental Leave Laws Have Only Slight Impact on New Parents' Leave Taking (February 2003)
Young Men: Ready to Marry? Or to Live Together? (February 2003)
Population Basics
U.S. Birth Rate: Still Fueling Population Growth? (March 2007)
Rural America Undergoing a Diversity of Demographic Change (May 2006)
Hispanics Account for Almost One-Half of U.S. Population Growth (January 2006)
Births Increase in Oklahoma City Following 1995 Bombing There (December 2005)
Race/Ethnicity
In the News: Speaking English in the United States (June 2006)
Skin Color Obstacle for Some U.S. Latinos Moving into Anglo Neighborhoods (August 2005)
Recent Report Finds Serious Disparities Among Children in North America (May 2006)
Latino Births Increase in Nontraditional Destination States (February 2006)
U.S. Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating are Liberalizing (June 2005)
The Social and Economic Isolation of Urban African Americans (October 2005)
Dramatic Gaps in Home Equity Among Whites, Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics Examined (September 2004)
Older Mexican-Born Hispanics Return to Mexico When Ill, Inflating U.S. Life Expectancy Rates (September 2004)
Segregation in Cities and Suburbs — Old Trends and New (February 2004)
White Flight: Property Values, Neighborhood Quality Most Often Cited (November 2002)
Spanish-Speaking Children in California Increasingly Concentrated in Low-Income Schools, Study Finds (November 2002)
Reproductive Health
Abortion in the United States and the World (December 2005)
Youth
Census Bureau Plans to Eliminate ‘Foster Child’ Category (January 2007)
Will Rising Childhood Obesity Decrease U.S. Life Expectancy? (May 2005)
New Orleans Lags US in Key Indicators of Child Well-Being (2004)