Research by the Faculty Affiliates

William Ascher, Ph.D.

Ascher, W., Krupp, C. eds. Physical Infrastructure Development: Balancing the Growth, Equity, and Environmental Imperatives. Palgrave Macmillan (May 2010).

Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries (2009) William Ascher Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Policy Sciences Contributions to Analysis to Promote Sustainability, Sustainability Science 2:1 (2007).

Please visit Dr. Ascher's website for additional information on his research.

Audrey Bilger, Ph.D.

"Family Matters in 19th Century England and America" - Dr. Bilger received a 2009 Berger Institute Faculty Summer Grant to conduct this research project with Anum Malkani (CMC '11) .

Please visit Dr. Bilger's website for additional information on her research.

David Bjerk, Ph.D.

"Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty," Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming).

“How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 25(4): 391-417 (2009).

“Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors? Statistical Discrimination in a Dynamic Model of Promotion and Hiring,” The Economic Journal 118(July): 961-982 (2008).

“Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer: The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain,” American Law and Economics Review 92(2): 305-329 (2007).

“Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality,” (joint with Seungjin Han) Journal of Public Economics 91(5-6): 1135-1150 (2007).

“Racial Profiling, Statistical Discrimination, and the Effect of a Colorblind Policy on the Crime Rate,” Journal of Public Economic Theory 9(3): 543-567 (2007).

"Beauty vs. Earnings: Gender Differences in Human Capital, Earnings, and Priorities Over Spousal Characteristics in a Matching Model," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 69: 248-259 (2009).

“The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across Occupational Sectors.” Journal of Human Resources 42(2): 398-434 (2007).

“On the Role of Plea Bargaining and the Distribution of Sentences in the Absence of Judicial System Frictions.” International Review of Law and Economics 28(1): 1-7 (2008).

“Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation and Household Economic Resources,” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23(1): 23-39 (2007).

Please visit Dr. Bjerk's website for additional information on his research.

Lisa Cody, Ph.D.

"Divided We Stand: Divorce and Female Independence in the Age of the American Revolution" - Dr. Cody received a 2009 Berger Institute Faculty Summer Grant to conduct this research project with Bri Riggio (CMC '10) .  She continued this research with a 2010 Berger Institute Faculty Summer Grant with Ari Zyskind (CMC '12).

"Birthing the Nation:  Sex, Science and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons", (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Please visit Dr. Cody's website for additional information on her research. 

Diane Halpern, Ph.D.

The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics.   (2007)  Diane F. Halpern, Camilla P. Benbow, David C. Geary, Ruben C. Gur, Janet Shibley Hyde, and Morton Ann Gernsbacher. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8 (1), 1-51.

Halpern, D. F., Tan, S. J., & Carsten, M. (2008). California Paid Family Leave: Is it working for caregivers? (pp. 159-174) In A. Marcus-Newhall, D. F. Halpern, and S. J. Tan (Eds.), The Changing Realities of Work and Family: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Women at the Top: How Powerful Leaders Combine Work and Family (2008). Diane F. Halpern & Fanny M. Cheung New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

The Changing Realities of Work and Family: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2008). Amy Marcus-Newhall, Diane F. Halpern, & Sherylle J. Tan (Eds.) New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

Please visit Dr. Halpern's website for additional information on her research.

Wei-Chin Hwang, Ph.D.

Hwang, W., Wood, J. J., & Fujimoto, K. (In Press). Acculturative Family Distancing (AFD) and depression in Chinese American Families. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Hwang, W., & Wood, J. J. (2009). Acculturative Family Distancing (AFD) in Immigrant Families: A structural model of linkages with mental health outcomes among young adults. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 40(1), 123-138.

Hwang, W. (2009). The Formative Method for Adapting Psychotherapy (FMAP): A community-based developmental approach to culturally adapting therapy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 40(4), 369-377.

Hwang, W., & Goto, S. (2008). The effects of racial discrimination on minority college students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 14, 326-335

Hwang, W., Myers, H. F., Abe-Kim, J., & Ting, J. Y. (2008). A conceptual paradigm for understanding culture’s impact on mental health: The Cultural Influences on Mental Health (CIMH) Model. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 212-228

Hwang, W. & Ting, J. Y. (2008). Disaggregating the effects of acculturation and acculturative stress on the mental health of Asian Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 14, 147-154.

Hwang, W. (2007). Qi-Gong Psychotic Reaction in a Chinese American Woman. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 31(4), 547-560.

Hwang, W., Miranda, J., & Chung, C. (2007). Psychosis and Shamanism in a Filipino-American Immigrant. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 31, 251-269.

Ting, J. Y., & Hwang, W. (2007). Eating disorders among Asian American women: Integrating multiculturalism and feminism. Women and Therapy, 30(3-4), 145-160.

Hwang, W., & Myers, H. F. (2007). Major Depression in Chinese Americans: The roles of stress and vulnerability. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42(3), 189-197.

Please visit Dr. Hwang's website for more information on his research. 

Tomoe Kanaya, Ph.D.

Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J.(in press). The impact of the Flynn effect on LD diagnoses in special education. Journal of Learning Disabilities

Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J. (in press). The Flynn effect on the WISC subtests in school children tested for special education services. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Ceci, S.J. & Kanaya, T. (in press). “Apples and oranges are both round”: Furthering the discussion on the Flynn effect. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Kanaya, T., *MacFarlane, J.R. & *Avera, L.M. (2009). What's in a name? The inconsistencies of special education diagnoses and labels. In O. Demir and C. Celik (Eds) Multimedia in Education and Special Education. NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 185-201.

*MacFarlane, J.R. & Kanaya, T. (2009). What does it mean to be Autistic? Inter-state variation in special education criteria for Autism services. Journal of Child and Family Studies 18, 662-669.

Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J. (2007). Are all IQ scores created equal? The differential costs of IQ cut-off scores for at-risk children. Child Development Perspectives, 1, 52-56.

Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J. (2007). MR diagnosis and the Flynn effect: General intelligence, adaptive behavior, and context. Child Development Perspectives, 1, 62-63.

Please visit Dr. Kanaya's website for more information on her research.

Amy Kind, Ph.D.

Kind, A., Creative Mothering: Lies and the Lying Mothers Who tell Them. Motherhood: The Birth of Wisdom in the Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley-Blackwell, (September 2010).

“The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire,” forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy

“How to Believe in Qualia,” forthcoming in The Case for Qualia, ed. by Edmond Wright , MIT Press (expected 2008)

“Restrictions on Representationalism,” Philosophical Studies 134: 405-427 (2007) 

Please visit Dr. Kind's website for more information on her research.

 Nita Kumar, Ph.D.

The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education in India (2007). Nita Kumar Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Please visit Dr. Kumar's  website for additional information on her research.

Frederick R. Lynch, Ph.D.

Some Surprising Findings on Boomers, Work, and Family.  Dr. Fred Lynch received a 2007 Berger Institute summer grant to pursue his studies on the maturing Baby Boom generation.  This material will be published in a book titled One Nation Under AARP:  The Fight for Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future in the Spring of 2011 by University of California Press.

Please visit Dr. Lynch's website for additional information on his research.

Serkan Ozbeklik, Ph.D.

"A Dynamic Analysis of Married Women's Decisions to Opt-Out of and Re-Enter the Labor Market Surrounding Childbirth", (with Dr. Heather Antecol).

"The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in Future Cohorts", Mimeo, Claremont McKenna College, August 2008.

"Medicaid Participation, Variable Take-up Rates and Crowd-Out: Estimation and Counterfactual Policy Experiments (with John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard), Mimeo, University of Southern California, August 2008.

Please visit Dr. Ozbeklik's website for additional information on his research.