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Staff Publications and Presentations, 2008

Publications

Alter, George, Michel Oris, and Muriel Neven, "When Protoindustry Collapsed: Fertility and the Demographic Regime in Rural Eastern Belgium During the Industrial Revolution," Historical Social Research, 32/2: 137-159. 2007.

Alter, George, Martin Dribe, and Frans van Poppel, "Widowhood, Family Size, and Post-Reproductive Mortality: A Comparative Analysis of Three Populations in Nineteenth Century Europe," Demography, 44/4: 785-806. 2007.

Gratton, B., M.P. Gutmann, and E. Skop. "Immigrants, their Children, and Theories of Assimilation: Family Structure in the United States, 1880 - 1970." History of the Family: An International Quarterly 12: 203-222. 2007.

Hoelter, Lynette F., Felicia B. LeClere, Rachael E. Barlow, Amy M. Pienta, and James W. McNally. "Using ICPSR Resources to Teach Sociology." Teaching Sociology, v36(1): 17-25. 2008.

Jacoby, William G. "The Dimensionality of Public Attitudes toward Government Spending." Political Research Quarterly 61: 158-161. 2008.

Skop, E., B. Gratton and M.P. Gutmann. "Latinos/as (in) on the Border." In Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of America, ed. Havidán Rodríguez, Rogelio Sáenz, and Cecilia Menjívar. Springer. 2007.

Presentations

Granda, Peter. "Education Data Resources at ICPSR." Presentation to the School of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, January 18, 2008.

Granda, Peter. "Strategies for the Dissemination of Harmonized Data and Documentation Files." Web Presentation to the RWJ Data Harmonization Group of Public Health Systems Researchers, January 31, 2008.

Gutmann, M.P. "Open Data in the Social Sciences. The View from ICPSR." Presentation to the 17th Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisitions. Charleston, South Carolina, November, 2007.

Gutmann, M.P. "Space, Place, Access: Making Data Available and Protecting Human Subjects." Presentation at a Conference on Computational Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December, 2007.

Gutmann, M.P. "An Introduction to ICPSR -- Data and More in a World of Possibilities." Presentation to the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, October, 2007.

Gutmann, M.P. "Utility and Integrity in Large Data Collections: The Social Sciences." Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Ensuring the Integrity of Research Data, Washington, D.C., December 2007.

Gutmann, M.P. "Curating Social Science Data. The View from ICPSR." Presentation to the Third International Conference on Digital Curation, Washington, D.C., December, 2007.

Jacoby, William G. "Public Opinion during a Presidential Campaign: Attitude Change or Environmental Evolution?" Paper presented at the conference on "Producing Better Measures by Combining Data Cross-Temporally." Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK, November 9, 2007.

Jacoby, William G. "The Dot Plot: A Graphical Display for Labeled Quantitative Values." Presentation to the Measurement and Quantitative Methodology Seminar, Michigan State University College of Education, January 18, 2008.

Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, and Alan C. Swedlund. "Categories of Contamination: Population, Pollution, and Public Works in 19th-Century Massachusetts." Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, February 26-March 1, 2008.

Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, Glenn Deane, Myron P. Gutmann, and Kenneth M. Sylvester. "Household and Farm Transitions in Environmental Context." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 15-18, 2007.

McGovern, Nancy Y. "Aligning Digital Preservation Policies with Community Standards Aligning Digital Preservation Policies with Community Standards." International Conference on Digital Preservation, Beijing, China, October 2007, and First Annual African Digital Curation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, February 2008.

McGovern, Nancy Y. "Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Solutions." Two-day workshop at University of Sydney for the Asutralian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, October 2007.

Sylvester, Kenneth, and Eric Rupley. "Footprints of Settlements: making agricultural landscapes in the American grasslands." Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2007.

Vardigan, Mary, Pascal Heus, and Wendy Thomas. "Data Documentation Initiative: Towards a Standard for the Social Sciences." Presented at the 3rd International Digital Curation Conference "Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative Challenge, Washington, DC, December 11-13 2007.