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IPIA Working Papers

Welcome to the Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPIA) Working Paper Series. This series highlights in-progress research by IPIA investigators and research presented at IPIA-supported conferences and seminars. The series makes preliminary research findings available and encourages feedback on papers prior to final publication. You may download the full text of papers in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Date Posted	Title	Author/Contact
Nov. 09, 2009	Family Relations and the Experience of Loneliness among Older Adults in Eastern Europe	Kim Korinek
June 11, 2009	Driving in a New Immigrant Destination: Migrant Rights and State-level Policy	Julie Stewart, Ken Jameson
June 11, 2009	Understanding the Cell Phone Effect on Motor Vehicle Fatalities Using Classical & Bayesian Methods	Gail Blattenberger, Richard Fowles, Peter D. Loeb, and Wm. A. Clarke
June 11, 2009	Shifts in Coresidence Among the Oldest-old in China: Comparing Decedents and Survivors	Zachary Zimmer and Kim Korinek
June 11, 2009	Marital Status Transitions and Patterns of Intergenerational Co-residence among China’s Elderly	Kim Korinek and Zachary Zimmer
June 10, 2009	Alone in the Ivory Tower: How Birth Events Vary among Fast-Track Professionals	Nick Wolfinger
April 28, 2008	The Human Dimension of Elections: How Poll Workers Shape Public Confidence in Elections	Thad Hall
February 4, 2008	Personal, Social, and Ecological Influences on Loneliness and Satisfaction among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Shanghai, China	Ming Wen
January 28, 2008	Institutions, Location, and Network of Multinational Enterprises in China: A Case Study of Hangzhou	Yehua Dennis Wei
January 9, 2008	The Determinants of Motor Vehicle Fatalities Using Classical Specification Testing and Bayesian Sensitivity Methods	Richard Fowles
December 3, 2007	Why Generation(s) Matter(s) to Policy	Susan McDaniel
November 9, 2007	HIV/AIDS and the Living Arrangements of Older Persons across the Sub-Saharan African region	Zachary Zimmer
September 12, 2007	Number of Children and Proximate Residence Among Older Adults in the Context of Population Aging: A Comparative Analysis of Six Societies in the Asia-Pacific Region	Zachary Zimmer
May 9, 2007	Over-Scheduled or at Loose Ends? The Shifting Balance of Adolescent Time Use	Cathleen Zick
March 2, 2007	CEO Pay and the Lake Wobegon Effect	Scott Schaefer
January 24, 2007	Cost of Crime: A Cost/Benefit Tool For Analyzing Utah Criminal Justice Program Effectiveness	Richard Fowles Ph.D. ; Edward C. Byrnes Ph.D. ; Audrey O. Hickert M.A.
January 11, 2007	Military Voting and the Law: Procedural and Technological Solutions to the Ballot Transit Problem	Thad Hall
September 19, 2006	Social Contexts of Regular Smoking in Adolescence: Towards a Multidimensional Ecological Model	Ming Wen
September 19, 2006	Family Structure and Voter Turnout	Nick Wolfinger
August 8, 2006	Accounting for Urban versus Rural Discrepancies in Mortality and Functional Health among Older Adults in China	Zachary Zimmer
August 8, 2006	Exploring the Influence of the National School Lunch Program On Children Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study	Lori Kowaleski-Jones
August 8, 2006	Does Housework Matter Anymore? The Shifting Impact of Housework on Economic Inequality	Cathleen Zick
July 27, 2006	Controlling Democracy: The Principal-Agent Problems in Election Administration	Thad Hall
July 27, 2006	How Hard Can It Be: Do Citizens Think It Is Difficult to Register To Vote?	Thad Hall
July 26, 2006	Dispelling the Pipleline Myth: Gender, Family Formation, and Alternative Trajectories in the Academic Life Course	Nick Wolfinger
July 26, 2006	Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?	Thad Hall
July 26, 2006	Patterns of Household Food Expenditures: A Cluster Analysis	Jessie Fan
July 26, 2006	Thanks for Nothing: Changes in Income and Labor Force Participation for Never-Married Mothers since 1982	Nick Wolfinger
July 26, 2006	Net Income, Gross Income, and Bias in Child Support Awards in Gross Income-Shares States	Jessie Fan
July 14, 2006	Familial Effects Of BRCA1 Genetic Mutation Testing:Changes in Perceived Family Functioning	Antoinette M Stroup

IPIA welcomes manuscript submissions to the working papers series from affiliated faculty on relevant topics including public policy, applied politics, government and governance, and international affairs. Papers should be emailed as either WordPerfect or Microsoft Word files to publications@ipia.utah.edu. Please include an abstract, topic category (e.g., public policy), subject keywords, and author contact information.

Individuals who reference IPIA working papers in their own research should use the following citation format:
Jane Smith. (Year). Title of paper. IPIA Working Paper #xx. Salt Lake City: Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah.

Please email publications@ipia.utah.edu with any questions.