Curriculum Vitae for Jule DaVanzo - RAND Corporation

EDUCATION
JULIE DaVANZO
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Economics (1972)
M.A., Economics (1968)
B.A., Economics (1967) (summa cum laude)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
April 2006-Present: Adjunct staff, RAND
2003-July 2005: Co-director, RAND Evaluation Institute for Qatar K-12 Education Reform
Project
2001- June 2006: Director of RAND Postdoctoral Training Programs in Population and Aging
(funded by NICHD and NIA)
1996-Present: Director, Population Matters Project, RAND
1983-2005: Director, Center for the Study of the Family in Economic Development,
RAND
1979-1991: Associate Director of RAND’s Population Research Center
1972-March 2006: Staff Member, RAND, Santa Monica, California (most recently Senior
Economist)
1968-1972: Research Assistant, RAND
Dr. DaVanzo has conducted various studies of the socioeconomic determinants and consequences
of demographic phenomena. These include:
- Design and fielding of the original Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-1), a three-round
multipurpose survey of over 1200 households in Peninsular Malaysia, a dataset that has been
widely used by researchers throughout the world.
- The design and fielding of the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey (a follow-up of MFLS-1
respondents and their children and new random samples of households with women of
childbearing age and of households with persons age 50 and over).
- Analyses of time allocation and income distribution in Malaysia.
- Studies of birthspacing, contraceptive use, breastfeeding, birthweight, and infant mortality in
Malaysia.
- Studies of family migration decisions and of return and repeat migration in the U.S.
- Studies of young adults’ decisions to leave their parents’ homes and establish independent
households in the U.S. and of their decisions to return to live with their parents.
- Studies of breastfeeding and infant feeding in the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and
Cameroon.
- Design, fielding, and analysis of a survey of Filipino and Salvadoran immigrants in Los
Angeles.
- Review of trends and policy issues regarding American families.
- A survey/research project on the effects of the Grameen Bank on women’s status and their
fertility in Bangladesh.
- A review of demographic trends in Russia and their implications.
- A study of the effects of the economic crisis in Cameroon on schooling inequalities in that
country. (A paper on this work won the 2005 Joyce Cain Award from the Comparative and
International Education Society [CIES].)
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- Analyses of the interrelations between demographics and security in South Asia and Southeast
Asia.
- A study of the implications of demographic change in Europe.
Dr. DaVanzo is currently working on a project on the effects of birthspacing on infant, child, and
maternal health outcomes in Bangladesh. She also directs the Population Matters, which seeks to
communicate the policy-relevant results of population research to policymakers, the media, and
general audiences. She has presented Population Matters and other research to the staffs of a
number of Congressional offices, at a number of briefings on Capitol Hill, in a number of radio and
television interviews (including on National Public Radio, the BBC, and ABC World News), and
has briefed current and former Cabinet members, including Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfield, and
Paul O’Neill.
Between 2001 and 2006 Dr. DaVanzo directed RAND’s NICHD and NIA post-doctoral training
programs in population and aging. She has taught at UCLA, the Pardee RAND Graduate School of
Policy Studies (most recently a course in Fall 2006), and UC Irvine (Winter 2007) and has
supervised the work of a number of pre- and post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars.
Dr. DaVanzo has been principal investigator of over 30 projects, funded by the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute on Aging; the U.S. Agency for
International Development; the Rockefeller Foundation; the United Nations Fund for Population
Activities; the Ford Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the S.H. Cowell
Foundation; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Compton Foundation; the
Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor; the Economic Development
Administration, Department of Commerce; and the World Bank.
She is a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) and has been a member
of the NAS Panel to Evaluate the USDA’s Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and
Participation for the WIC Program (2000-03), the NAS Committee on National Statistics
(CNSTAT, 1995-2001) and chaired a CNSTAT workshop on Measurement of and Research on
Time Use. She has served as a report review coordinator for several NAS reports and has reviewed
a number of other Academy reports. She was a member of the NAS Committee on Population
(1985–91) and served as co-chair of the NAS Working Group on the Health Consequences of
Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility (1987-90) and was a member of the NAS Panel on
Determinants of Fertility Change (1978–83).
She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Population Resource Center. She was a
member of the Technical Advisory Group for the MEASURE Evaluation Project at the
University of North Carolina and of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Demographic and
Health Surveys Project from its inception in 1985 until 1994 and was its chairperson from 1991
to 1994. She has conducted several large program reviews, including reviews of World Bank
research on women in development (for the World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Technical
Department), of the NAS Committee on Population (for USAID), and of the Community Health
and Family Planning Project of the Navrongo Health Research Centre (for the Rockefeller
Foundation). She has been a consultant to the Macro International, collaborating on a report on
demographics and health in Ethiopira, and to the World Bank, collaborating on the design of
survey-research projects in The Gambia and Jordan and reviewing research proposals and reports
on population, health, and education. She served as a member of the Population Research
Committee of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1981–85) and has
subsequently participated in a number of reviews of proposals submitted to NIH (most recently
chairing a special review in March 2006 and serving as a reviewer for two study sections of
proposals submitted to the Fogarty International Center). In addition, she has been a consultant
to the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, UNICEF, the Population Council, and the Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); has served as a resource person at the
Summer Seminar in Population at the East-West Population Institute (1979); as a visiting scholar
at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria (IIASA) (1980);
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and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Population (1978)
and the Congressional Coalition on Population and Development (1990).
She was First Vice-President of the Population Association of America (PAA) (1989) and has
served as Second Vice President (1987) of the PAA, on the selection committee for the PAA
Dorothy S. Thomas award (1984–87, Chair 1987) and on the PAA Publications Committee
(1979–81), was chairperson of the Nominations Committee (1985), a member of the PAA Board
of Directors (1982–84), a member of the Program Committee for the 1981, 1994, and 1998
PAA meetings and the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2006 meeting, and was a member
and chair of the PAA International Affairs Committee (1994-97).
She collaborated for many years with the staffs of the National Population and Family
Development Board (NPFDB) of Malaysia and of Lembaga Demografi (the Demographic
Institute) and The Center for Health Research at the University of Indonesia; she has also worked
with researchers at Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS, the Mexican Social Security
Institute) and Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP, National Institute of Public Health) in
Mexico. She was an invited lecturer at Nucleo de Estudos de Populacão in Campinas, São Paulo,
Brazil (1983), and a visiting professor at the University of Malaya (1986). She organized and
directed the workshop on Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1986,
and workshops on the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey at NPFDB and the University of
Malaya in 1991. In 1993, she delivered a series of lectures on analyzing migration and conducting
policy analyses at the Center of Demography and Human Ecology at the Institute for Economic
Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She helped organize a workshop on
“Russia’s Demographic ‘Crisis,’” held at RAND in June 1995. She helped organize a workshop on
“Mortality in Russia: Major Risk Groups,” held in Moscow in April 1996, and helped brief
representatives of various government agencies and international donors on the main conclusions.
She speaks, reads, and writes Spanish; can read French; and has studied Russian.
She was co-editor of Research in Population Economics, Vol. II, and has been an editorial
consultant to a number of journals, including The American Economic Review, Journal of Political
Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics,
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Demography, Population and Development
Review, The American Sociological Review, Studies in Family Planning, Journal of Health
Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of the American Statistical Association,
Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, International Family
Planning Perspectives, The International Migration Review, Social Science and Medicine, Social
Biology, and Journal of Marriage and the Family.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/HONORS
Joyce Cain Award, for Distinguished Research on African Descendants, from the Comparative and
International Education Society [CIES], 2005
Bronze Merit Award, RAND, 2003
National Associate, National Academies of Sciences (since 2002)
President’s Award, RAND, 1996
Member, Population Association of America
Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Ranked Second among Nonacademic Women Economists and in Top-Ten of All Women
Economists in Terms of Average Annual Number of Citations (Journal of Business and
Economics, February 1990).
Ford Foundation Grant for Research in University Administration, 1970–1971
Rockefeller Fellowship in Economic Demography, 1971–1972
Phi Beta Kappa, 1967
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PUBLICATIONS
DaVanzo, Julie, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, and Mizanur Rahman, “The Effects of
Pregnancy Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh,” Population Studies,
in press.
DaVanzo, Julie, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, and Mizanur Rahman, “Effects of
Interpregnancy Interval and Outcome of the Preceding Pregnancy on Pregnancy Outcomes in
Matlab, Bangladesh,” BJOG (British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology), 2007 (in press).
Hale, Lauren, Julie DaVanzo, Abdur Razzaque, and Mizanur Rahman, “Why Are Infant and
Child Mortality Rates Lower in the MCH-FP Area of Matlab, Bangladesh? Are the Differences
Due to Differences in Reproductive Patterns?” Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp.
281-292, December 2006.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Working as a Research Economist at the RAND Corporation,” Newsletter of
the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Spring/Summer 2006, pp.
4-5.
Kuate-Defo, Barthélemy, and Julie DaVanzo, “Reproducibility and Reliability of Reasons for
Early Termination of Breastfeeding,” Population Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1, March 2006.
Grant, Jonathan, Stijn Hoorens, Suja Sivadasan, Mirjam Van Het Loo, Julie DaVanzo, Lauren
Hale, and William Butz, “Should Europe try to increase its fertility rate ... or just manage the
consequences?” International Journal of Andrology, February 2006.
Nichiporuk, Brian, Angel Rabasa, Clifford Grammich, and Julie DaVanzo, “Demographics and
Security in Maritime Southeast Asia,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, December
2005.
Nichiporuk, B., Christine Fair, Clifford Grammich, and Julie DaVanzo, “Demographics and
Security: The Contrasting Cases of Pakistan and Bangladesh,” Journal of South Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies, Summer 2005.
Razzaque, A. Julie DaVanzo, M. Rahman, K. Gausia, L. Hale, M. A. Khan, and A.H.M.G.
Mustafa “Pregnancy spacing and maternal morbidity in Matlab, Bangladesh,” International
Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vol. 89, April 2005, pp. 541-549.
DaVanzo, Julie, Clifford Grammich, Brian Nichiporuk, and C. Christine Fair, “Disarming
Development,” Peace and Conflict Studies, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 2004, pp. 14-15; also
available on the web at
http://www.ipcs.org/South_Asia_articles2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=1501&country=1013
&status=article&mod=b; also available as RAND Reprint LRP-200410-15.
Grammich, Clifford, Julie DaVanzo, and Kate Stewart, “Changes in American Opinion on
Family Planning,” Studies in Family Planning, September 2004; also available as RAND
Reprint RP-1148.
Grant, Jonathan, Stijn Hoorens, Suja Sividasan, Mirjam van het Loo, Julie DaVanzo, Lauren
Hale, Shawna Gibson, and William Butz, Low Fertility and Population Ageing: Causes,
Consequences and Policy Options, RAND report MG 206-EC, 2004.
DaVanzo, Julie, Abdur Razzaque, Mizanur Rahman, Lauren Hale, Kapil Ahmed, Mehrab Ali
Khan, Golam Mustafa, and Kaniz Gausia, “The Effects of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child
Mortality, Pregnancy Outcomes, and Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Matlab,
Bangladesh,” Report to the Catalyst Consortium; RAND Working Paper WR-198, 2004.
Amin, Shahina, and Julie DaVanzo, “The Impact of Wives' Earnings on the Earnings Inequality
Among Married-Couple Households in Malaysia,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 15, No. 1,
January-February 2004; also available as RAND Reprint RP-1111.
DaVanzo, Julie, Christine Peterson and Nathan Jones, “How Well Do Desired Fertility Measures
for Wives and Husbands Predict Subsequent Fertility? Evidence From Malaysia,” Asia-Pacific
Population Journal, December 2003.
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DaVanzo, Julie, Olga Oliker, and Clifford Grammich, “Too Few Good Men: The Domestic and
International Implications of Russian Demographic Trends,” Georgetown Journal of
International Affairs, Summer/Fall 2003; also available as RAND Reprint RP-1078.
DaVanzo, Julie, Olga Oliker, and Clifford Grammich, “A Shrinking Russia,” The Atlantic
Monthly, July-August 2003.
Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait, and Julie DaVanzo, “Economic downturns and schooling inequality,
Cameroon, 1987-95,” Population Studies, Vol. 57, No. 2, July 2003; also available as RAND
Reprint RP-1102.
Panel to Evaluate the USDA's Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the
WIC Program (Julie DaVanzo was member of the panel), Michele Ver Ploeg and David M.
Betson, Editors, Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program, Final Report,
National Research Council, National Academy Press.
Rahman, Mizanur, Julie DaVanzo, and Abdur Razzaque, “When Will Bangladesh Reach
Replacement-Level Fertility? The Role of Education and Family Planning Services,” in
Completing the Fertility Transition, United Nations Population Division, 2002; available on
the web at
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/2RevisedRAHMANpaper.PD
F.
Grammich, Clifford, and Julie DaVanzo, "Tackling Russia's demographic meltdown," The Russia
Journal, June 7, 2002.
Rahman, Mizanur, Julie DaVanzo, and Abdur Razzaque, “Do Better Family Planning Services
Reduce Abortion in Bangladesh?” The Lancet, Vol. 358, No. 9287, September 2001; also
available as RAND Reprint RP-993.
DaVanzo, Julie, Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program, Phase I Report,
National Research Council, National Academy Press, 2001 (co-authored with other members
of the Panel to Evaluate the USDA’s Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and Participation
for the WIC Program).
DaVanzo, Julie, and Joanne Leslie, “Using Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Methodologies for Studying Infant Feeding Practices,” Chapter 2 in Barthélémy Kuate-Defo
(ed.), Nutrition and Child Health in Cameroon, Price-Patterson Ltd., 2001; also available as
RAND Reprint RP-995. (Julie DaVanzo is also co-author, with Barthélémy Kuate-Defo,
Joanne Leslie, and Cameroonian co-authors, of Chapters 13, 14, and 15 of this book.)
DaVanzo, Julie, and Clifford Grammich, Dire Demographics: Population Trends in the Russian
Federation, RAND Report MR-1273, 2001.
Beckett, Megan, Julie DaVanzo, Narayan Sastry, Constantijn Panis, and Christine Peterson.
The Quality of Retrospective Data: An Examination of Long-Term Recall in a Developing
Country,” Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 36, Number 3, Summer 2001, pp. 593-625.
Khalifa, Mona, Julie DaVanzo, and David Adamson, Population Growth in Egypt: A Continuing
Policy Challenge, RAND Issue Paper IP-183, 2000.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Clifford Grammich, “Barren Ground: Eastern Europe's transition from
communism isn't the only factor affecting the region's demographics,” Transitions Online, June
12, 2000
Ver ploeg, Michele, Joseph Altonji, Norman Bradburn, Julie DaVanzo, William Nordhaus, and
Francisco Samaniego, Time Use Measurement and Research: A Workshop Summary, National
Academy Press, 2000.
Adamson, David, Nancy Belden, Julie DaVanzo, and Sally Patterson. How Americans View
World Population Issues: A Survey of Public Opinion, RAND Report MR-1114-
DLPF/WFHF/RF, 2000.
Ngin, ChorSwang, and Julie DaVanzo, “Parent-Child Coresidence and Quasi-Coresidence in
Peninsular Malaysia: Complementary Insights from Quantitative and Qualitative Research,”
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Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1999, pp.43-64; also available as
RAND RP-843, Reprint Series 99-09.
DaVanzo, Julie, Comment on chapter on Population Change in East Asia, by Andrew Mason, in
Population Economics, Demographic Transition, and Development: Research and Policy
Implications, Andrew Mason, Thomas Merrick, and R. Paul Shaw, eds., World Bank Working
Paper, 1999.
DaVanzo, Julie, and David Adamson, Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished
Success Story, RAND Issue Paper, IP-176, 1998 (also available in French, Spanish, Italian,
Portuguese and Arabic).
Menjivar, Cecilia, Julie DaVanzo, Lisa Greenwell, and R. Burciaga Valdez, “Remittance
Behavior among Salvadoran and Filipino Immigrants in Los Angeles,” International Migration
Review, 1998.
Johnson, Richard W., and Julie DaVanzo, “Economic and Cultural Influences on the Decision to
Leave Home in Peninsular Malaysia,” Demography, February 1998.
Rahman, Mizanur, and Julie DaVanzo, “Impact of the Grameen Bank on Women’s Status and
Fertility in Bangladesh,” paper presented at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Population
Council, New York, December 1997.
DaVanzo, Julie, and David Adamson, Russia’s Demographic Crisis: How Real is It?, RAND
Issue Paper, IP-162, July 1997.
DaVanzo, Julie, Elizabeth Lule, and Jay Satia, Review of the Community Health and Family
Planning Project of the Navrongo Health Research Centre: Program Review for the Rockefeller
Foundation, May 1997.
Greenwell, Lisa, Julie DaVanzo, and R. Burciaga Valdez, “Social Ties, Wages, and Gender in a
Study of Salvadoran and Filipino Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 7,
No. 2, June 1997.
Kuate-Defo, Barthelemy, Julie DaVanzo, Joanne Leslie, and Elenore Seumo-Fosso, “Using
Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Understand Infant Feeding Practices,” paper presented at
the annual meeting of Population Association of America in Washington, DC, 1997.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Review of ‘Malaysia’s Demographic Transition: Rapid Development, Culture,
and Politics’ (by Richard Leete),” Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 4,
December 1996, pp. 795-796.
DaVanzo, Julie, Russia’s Demographic “Crisis,” RAND Conference Proceedings, CF-124-
CRES, 1996 (editor of volume and author of introductory chapter).
Johnson, Richard W., and Julie DaVanzo, “Mother-Child Coresidence and Quasi-Coresidence in
Peninsular Malaysia,” Journal of Population, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 1996, pp. 21-42.
Chan, Angelique, and Julie DaVanzo, “Ethnic Differences in Parents’ Coresidence with Adult
Children in Peninsular Malaysia,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Vol. 11, No. 1,
1996, pp. 29-59; also available as Labor and Population Reprint Series 96-22, RAND RP-602.
Kuate-Defo, Barthélémy, and Julie DaVanzo, “Data on Reasons for No or Short Breastfeeding:
Are They Reliable and Do They Help Us Understand Infant Feeding Behavior?,” Labor and
Population Program Working Paper 96-03, DRU-1305-NICHD, RAND, 1996.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Barbara Seligman, Evaluation of the USAID Office of Population’s
Cooperative Agreement with the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population,
POPTECH Report, No. 95-041-022, 1995.
DaVanzo, Julie, “The Potential Role of Household Surveys for Providing Population and
Health Information for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Planning Purposes,” paper presented at
the Workshop on Data Collection Priorities for Population and Health Information in
Developing Countries, organized by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on
Population and held at the Academy, September 1995; available as P-7969, RAND, 1996.
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DaVanzo, Julie, “Potential Health Impacts of Family Planning,” Chap. 6 in Evaluation of the
Impact of Health Interventions, edited by Hoda Rashad, Ronald Gray, and Ties Boerma,
Belgium: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1995; also available as
Labor and Population Program Reprint 95-11, RP-441, RAND, 1995. (Published by Family
Health International (1995) in a collection of articles to be shared with individuals and groups
interested in the impact of family planning on women’s lives.)
DaVanzo, Julie, Jeffrey Sine, Christine Peterson, and John Haaga, “Reversal of the Decline in
Breastfeeding in Peninsular Malaysia? Ethnic and Educational Differentials and Data Quality
Issues,” Social Biology, Vol. 41, Issue 1-2, 1994; also available as Labor and Population
Program Reprint 95-07, RP-359, RAND, 1995.
DaVanzo, Julie, Jennifer Hawes-Dawson, R. Burciaga Valdez, Georges Vernez, with Christina
Andrews, Barbara Levitan, Joyce E. Peterson, and Robert Schoeni, Surveying Immigrant
Communities: Policy Imperatives and Technical Challenges, MR-247-FF, RAND, 1994.
Haaga, John, Julie DaVanzo, Christine Peterson, and Tey Nai Peng, “Twelve-Year Follow-Up
of Respondents in a Sample Survey in Peninsular Malaysia,” Asia-Pacific Population Journal,
Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 61-72; also available as Labor and Population Program Reprint
94-19, RP-358, RAND, 1995.
DaVanzo, Julie; Jacob Klerman, and Christine Peterson, “The Roles of Public Policies and
Socioeconomic Change in Explaining Fertility Trends in Peninsular Malaysia,” paper presented
at the 1994 meeting of the Population Association of America in Miami, FL.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Angelique Chan, “Living Arrangements of Older Malaysians—Who
Coresides with Their Adult Children?” Demography, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 95-
113; also available as Labor and Population Reprint 94-04, RP-284, RAND, 1994.
DaVanzo, Julie, “The Last Word,” pp. 37-38 in Population: Growing as a Field. Papers and
Commentary from a Symposium Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina Population
Center, May 5-7, 1991, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Carolina Population Center, published in 1994.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Omar Rahman, “American Families: Trends and Correlates,” Population
Index, Vol. 59, No. 3, Fall 1993, pp. 350-386; also available as Labor and Population Program
Reprint 94-03, RP-283, RAND, 1994.
DaVanzo, Julie, Omar Rahman and Kul T. Wadhwa, “American Families: Policy Issues,”
Population Index, Vol. 59, No. 4, Winter 1993, pp. 547-566, also available as Labor and
Population Program Reprint 94-06, RP-300, RAND, 1994.
DaVanzo, Julie, Omar Rahman, Christina A. Andrews, and Kul T. Wadhwa, American Families:
Trends and Policy Issues, P-7854, RAND, December 1993.
Rahman, Mizanur, and Julie DaVanzo, “Assessing the Impact of the Grameen Bank on
Women’s Status and Fertility in Bangladesh,” Labor and Population Program Working Paper
93-28, DRU-485-RF, RAND, 1993.
Rahman, Mizanur, and Julie DaVanzo, “Gender Preference and Birthspacing in Matlab,
Bangladesh,” Demography, Vol. 30, No. 3, August 1993, pp. 315-332; also available as Reprint
RP-233, RAND, 1994.
Haaga, John, Julie DaVanzo, Christine Peterson, and Tey Nai Peng, “Twelve-Year Follow-Up
of Respondents and Their Adult Children in a Panel Survey in Peninsular Malaysia,” Labor and
Population Program Working Paper 93-19, DRU-380-NICHD, RAND, 1993.
Sine, Jeffrey, Tey Nai Peng, and Julie DaVanzo, Proceedings of the Seminar on the Second
Malaysian Family Life Survey, Kuala Lumpur, October 1991, CF-109-NICHD/NIA/WFHF,
RAND, 1993; also published by The National Population and Family Development Board,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
DaVanzo, Julie, “The Second Malaysian Family Life Survey: Overview,” “Breastfeeding,” and
“Living Arrangements,” chapters in J. Sine, Tey N.P., and J. DaVanzo (eds.), Proceedings of
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the Seminar on the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey, Kuala Lumpur, October 1991, CF-
109-NICHD/NIA/WFHF, RAND, 1993.
Haaga, John, Julie DaVanzo, Christine Peterson, Tey Nai Peng, and Tan Boon Ann, The
Second Malaysian Family Life Survey: Overview and Technical Report, MR-106-NICHD/NIA,
RAND, 1993.
DaVanzo, Jullie, John Haaga, Tey Nai Peng, Ellen Starbird, and Christine Peterson, The Second
Malaysian Family Life Survey: Survey Instruments, MR-107-NICHD/NIA, RAND, 1993.
Valdez, R. Burciaga, Julie DaVanzo, Georges Vernez, and Mitchell Wade, Immigration: Getting
the Facts, Issue Paper, Program for Research on Immigration Policy, IP-123, RAND, 1993.
Haaga, John, Christine Peterson, Julie DaVanzo, and Sharon Mengchee Lee, “Health Status and
Family Support of Older Malaysians,” Labor and Population Program Working Paper 93-17,
DRU-378-NIA, RAND, 1993.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Families, Children, Poverty, and Policy,” in J. Steinberg, M. Vaiana, and D.
Lyon (eds.), in Urban America: Policy Choices for Los Angeles and the Nation, RAND, 1992;
also available as Reprint RP-253, RAND, 1994.
Peterson, Christine, and Julie DaVanzo, “Why are Teenagers in the United States Less Likely
to Breastfeed Than Older Women?” Demography, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 431-450, August 1992;
also available as RP-184, RAND, 1996.
Govindasamy, Pavalavalli, and Julie DaVanzo, “Ethnicity and Fertility Differentials in
Peninsular Malaysia: Do Policies Matter?” Population and Development Review, Vol. 18, No.
2, June 1992, pp. 243-267; also available as Reprint RP-183, RAND, 1993.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Ellen Starbird, “Correlates of Short Interbirth Intervals in Peninsular
Malaysia: Their Pathways of Influence through Breastfeeding and Contraceptive Use,” Studies
in Family Planning, July-August 1991; also available as Reprint RP-141, RAND, 1992.
DaVanzo, Julie, Allan Parnell, and William Foege, “Health Consequences of Contraceptive Use
and Reproductive Patterns: Summary of a Report from the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 265, No. 20, May 22-29, 1991,
pp. 2692-2696.
DaVanzo, Julie, and John Haaga, Women in Development: Issues for the Latin American and
Caribbean Region, Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department, Regional Studies
Program Report No. 2, World Bank, April 1991.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Easing the Fear of Giving Birth,” Op-Ed article published in 24 U.S.
newspapers in July-August 1990; included in the book, Headline News, Science Views, David
Jarmul, ed., National Academy Press, 1991.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Paul Gertler, “Household Production of Health: A Microeconomic
Perspective on Health Transitions,” chapter in The Health Transition: Methods and Measures
(J. Cleland and A.G. Hill, eds.), Australian National University Printing Service, 1991; also
available as N-3014-RC, RAND, 1990.
DaVanzo, Julie, Ellen Starbird, and Arleen Leibowitz, “Do Women’s Breastfeeding Experiences
with Their First Borns Affect Whether They Breastfeed Their Subsequent Children?” Social
Biology, Vol. 37, No. 3–4, Fall-Winter 1990, pp. 223–232.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Frances Kobrin Goldscheider, “Coming Home Again: Returns to the Nest in
Young Adulthood,” Population Studies, Vol. 44, July 1990, pp. 241-255.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Health Consequences of Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility,”
International Population Conference, New Delhi, 1989, International Union for Scientific
Study of Population, Liege, 1989.
DaVanzo, Julie, Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and
Children in the Developing World, National Academy Press, 1989 (co-authored with other
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members of the Working Group on the Health Consequences of Contraceptive Use and
Controlled Fertility).
Othman, Ramli, Julie DaVanzo, Tan Boon Ann, and Jane Peterson, “Determinants of
Contraceptive Method Choice in Peninsular Malaysia, 1961–75,” in Choosing a
Contraceptive: Method Choice in Asia and the United States (R. Bulatao, J. Palmore, and S.
Ward, eds.), Westview Press, 1989.
Reboussin, David, Julie DaVanzo, Ellen H. Starbird, Tan Boon Ann, and S. Hadi Abdullah,
“Contraceptive Method Switching Over Women’s Reproductive Careers: Evidence from
Malaysian Life History Data, 1940s-1970s,” Journal of Biosocial Science, 1989.
Goldscheider, F. K., and Julie DaVanzo, “Pathways to Independent Living in Early Adulthood:
Marriage, Semiautonomy, and Premarital Residential Independence,” Demography, November
1989.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Infant Mortality and Socioeconomic Development: Evidence from Malaysian
Household Data,” Demography, Vol. 25, No. 4, November 1988.
DaVanzo, Julie, David Reboussin, Ellen Starbird, Tan Boon Ann, and S.Hadi Abdulllah,
“Contraceptive Method Switching over Women’s Reproductive Careers: Ethnic Differences in
Peninsular Malaysia, 1940s-1970s,” Malaysian Journal of Reproductive Health, Vol. 6, No. 1,
June 1988.
DaVanzo, Julie, “What Accounts for the Increase in Contraceptive Use in Peninsular Malaysia,
1956–75? Development vs. Family Planning Program Effort,” paper presented at the 1988
meeting of the Population Association of America.
Pebley, Anne R., and Julie DaVanzo, “Maternal Depletion and Child Survival in Guatemala and
Malaysia,” Labor and Population Program Working Paper 93-18, DRU-379-NICHD/RF,
RAND, 1993.
Habicht, Jean-Pierre, Julie DaVanzo, and William P. Butz, “Mother’s Milk and Sewage: Their
Interactive Effects on Infant Mortality,” Pediatrics, Vol. 81, No. 3, March 1988.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Tan Boon Ann, David Reboussin, Ellen Starbird, Ramli Othman and S. Hadi
Abdullah, “Contraceptive Choice and Method Switching in Malaysia,” Fertility Determinants
Research Note, No. 20, The Population Council, December 1987.
Reboussin, David, Julie DaVanzo, Ellen Starbird, Tan Boon Ann, and S. Hadi Abdullah,
Contraceptive Method Switching Over Women’s Reproductive Careers: Evidence from
Malaysia, the RAND Corporation, R-3547-PC/RC, October 1987.
DaVanzo, Julie, “The World Health Survey: Some Considerations from an Economic
Demographer’s Perspective,” background paper for Workshop on Country Health Studies,
World Bank, June 1–3, 1987.
Goldscheider, F. K., and Julie DaVanzo, “Semiautonomy and Leaving Home in Early
Adulthood,” Social Forces, Vol. 65, No. 1, September 1986, pp. 187–201.
Morrison, P. A., and Julie DaVanzo, “The Prism of Migration: Dissimilarities Between Return
and Onward Moves,” Social Science Quarterly, September 1986.
Peterson, C., Khairuddin Yusof, Julie DaVanzo, and Jean-Pierre Habicht, Why Were Infant and
Child Mortality Rates Higher in the Poorest States of Peninsular Malaysia, 1941–75?, the
RAND Corporation, N-2329-RF/FF/WFHF, August 1986.
DaVanzo, Julie, Tan Boon Ann, and Ramli Othman, Determinants of Contraceptive Method
Choice in Peninsular Malaysia, 1961–75, the RAND Corporation, N-2453-PC, July 1986.
Kusnic, M. W., and Julie DaVanzo, “Accounting for Nonmarket Activities in the Distribution
of Income: An Empirical Investigation,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2,
May 1986, pp. 211–227.
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DaVanzo, Julie, and Jean-Pierre Habicht, “Infant Mortality Decline in Malaysia, 1946–75: The
Roles of Changes in Variables and Changes in the Structure of Relationships,” Demography,
Vol. 23, No. 2, May 1986.
Habicht, Jean-Pierre, Julie DaVanzo, and William P. Butz, “Does Breastfeeding Really Save
Lives, or are Apparent Benefits Due to Biases?,” American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 123,
No. 2, February 1986.
Goldscheider, F. K., and Julie DaVanzo, “Living Arrangements and the Transition to
Adulthood,” Demography, Vol. 22, No. 4, November 1985.
Habicht, Jean-Pierre, Julie DaVanzo, W. P. Butz, and L. D. Meyers, “The Contraceptive Role
of Breastfeeding,” Population Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2, July 1985 (reprinted in Readings in
Population Research Methodology, edited by Donald Bogue, Eduardo Arriaga, and Douglas
Anderson, 1993).
DaVanzo, Julie, “Infant Mortality and Economic Development: The Case of Malaysia,”
International Population Conference, Florence, 1985, International Union for the Scientific
Study of Population, Liege, 1985.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Measuring Community Variables for Household Health and Demographic
Surveys in Developing Countries,” (paper prepared for presentation at the XX General
Conference of the IUSSP), The RAND Corporation, P-7099, May 1985.
DaVanzo, Julie, “A Household Survey of Child Mortality Determinants in Malaysia,”
Population and Development Review, supplement to Vol. 10, Summer 1984.
DaVanzo, Julie, and M. W. Kusnic, “Regional Income Differences and the Definition of
Income: The Case of Malaysia,” International Regional Science Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1984.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Jean-Pierre Habicht, What Accounts for the Decline in Infant Mortality in
Peninsular Malaysia, 1946–1975?, the RAND Corporation, N-2166-WB/RF/FF, June 1984;
also background paper for the 1984 World Development Report, World Bank, issued as chapter
in DaVanzo et al., Quantitative Studies of Mortality Decline in the Developing World; World
Bank Staff Working Papers, No. 683, Population and Development Series, No. 8, World Bank,
1985.
DaVanzo, Julie, Jean-Pierre Habicht, and W. P. Butz, “Assessing Socioeconomic Correlates of
Birthweight in Peninsular Malaysia: Ethnic Differences and Changes Over Time,” Social
Science and Medicine, Vol. 18, No. 5, 1984.
Butz, W. P., Jean-Pierre Habicht, and Julie DaVanzo, “Environmental Factors in the
Relationship Between Breastfeeding and Infant Mortality: The Role of Sanitation and Water in
Malaysia,” American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 119, No. 4, 1984.
Butz, W. P., Jean-Pierre Habicht, and Julie DaVanzo, “Improving Infants’ Nutrition, Health,
and Survival: Policy and Program Implications from the Malaysian Family Life Survey,”
Malaysian Journal of Reproductive Health, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1983; also available as the
RAND Corporation, R-2924-AID, June 1981.
Tan Boon Ann, Ramli Othman, W. P. Butz, and Julie DaVanzo, “Age at Menarche in
Peninsular Malaysia: Time Trends, Ethnic Differentials, and Associations with Ages at
Marriage and at First Birth,” Malaysian Journal of Reproductive Health, Vol. 1, No. 2,
December 1983; also available as the RAND Corporation, P-7098.
DaVanzo, Julie, W. P. Butz, and Jean-Pierre Habicht, “How Biological and Behavioral
Influences on Mortality in Malaysia Vary During the First Year of Life,” Population Studies,
Vol. 37, No. 3, November 1983.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Repeat Migration in the United States: Who Moves Back and Who Moves
On?” Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1983.
DaVanzo, Julie, and M. W. Kusnic, “Ethnic Differences in Income in Peninsular Malaysia:
Their Sensitivity to the Definition and Measurement of Income,” Singapore Economic
Review, October 1983; also available as the RAND Corporation, P-7097.
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DaVanzo, Julie, and P. A. Morrison, Migration Sequences: Who Moves Back and Who Moves
On? the RAND Corporation, R-2548-NICHD, November 1982.
DaVanzo, Julie, and J. G. Haaga, “Anatomy of a Fertility Decline: Peninsular Malaysia,
1950–1976,” Population Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 373–393, November 1982.
Kusnic, M. W., and Julie DaVanzo, “Who Are the Poor in Malaysia?: The Sensitivity of
Poverty Profiles to Definition of Income,” Population and Development Review, August
1982.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Donna Lee, “The Compatibility of Child Care with Labor Force
Participation and Nonmarket Activities: Preliminary Evidence from Malaysian Time Budget
Data,” in Women and Poverty in the Third World, Mayra Buvinic, Margaret A. Lycette, and
William P. McGreevey (eds.) Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
DaVanzo, Julie, Book review of “Migration and Economic Growth in the United States,”
Journal of Economic Literature, June 1982.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Techniques for Analysis of Migration-History Data,” in Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific, National Migration Surveys: X. Guidelines for Analysis,
United Nations, New York 1982; slightly different version available as the RAND Corporation,
N-1824-AID/NICHD, May 1982.
Butz, W. P., Julie DaVanzo, and Jean-Pierre Habicht, Biological and Behavioral Influences on
the Mortality of Malaysian Infants, the RAND Corporation, N-1638-AID, April 1982.
DaVanzo, Julie, and W. P. Butz, Birthspacing, Fertility, and Family Planning: Policy and
Program Implications from the Malaysian Family Life Survey, the RAND Corporation, R-
2925-AID, November 1981.
DaVanzo, Julie, and J. G. Haaga, Anatomy of a Fertility Decline: Ethnic Differences in the
Experience of Malaysian Women, 1950–1976, the RAND Corporation, N-1639-AID, August
1981.
DaVanzo, Julie, and J. R. Hosek, Does Migration Increase Wage Rates?--A Sensitivity Analysis
of Alternative Techniques for Measuring the Effects of Migration, the RAND Corporation, N-
1554-NICHD, July 1981.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Repeat Migration, Information Costs, and Location-Specific Capital,”
Population and Environment: Behavioral and Social Issues, Vol. 4(1), Spring 1981.
DaVanzo, Julie, and P. A. Morrison, “Return and Other Migration Sequences in the United
States,” Demography, February 1981.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Microeconomic Approaches to Migration Decisionmaking,” in Gordon F. De
Jong and Robert W. Gardener (eds.), Migration Decision Making: Multidisciplinary Approaches
to Microlevel Studies in Developed and Developing Countries, Pergamon Press, New York,
1981.
Kusnic, M. W., and Julie DaVanzo, Income Inequality and the Definition of Income: The Case
of Malaysia, the RAND Corporation, R-2416-AID, June 1980.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Julian Simon, Research in Population Economics, Vol. II, JAI Press,
Greenwich, Conn., 1980 (co-editor with J. Simon).
DaVanzo, Julie, and S. Goldstein, Migration and Fertility: Some Illustrative Tabulations Based
on the Malaysian Family Life Survey, the RAND Corporation, N-1310-AID, September 1979.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Does Unemployment Affect Migration?--Evidence from Micro Data,” The
Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1978.
DaVanzo, Julie, and William P. Butz, Influences on Fertility and Infant Mortality in Developing
Countries: The Case of Malaysia, the RAND Corporation, N-1166-AID, November 1978.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Who Moves and Why,” Challenge, The Magazine of Economic Affairs,
September/October 1978.
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DaVanzo, Julie, “U.S. Internal Migration: Who Moves and Why?,” testimony before the House
Select Committee on Population, June 1978; also available as P-6133, the RAND Corporation,
June 1978.
Butz, William P., and Julie DaVanzo, The Malaysian Family Life Survey: Summary Report, the
RAND Corporation, R-2351-AID, March 1978.
Butz, William P., Julie DaVanzo, D. Z. Fernandez, R. Jones, and N. Spoelstra, The Malaysian
Family Life Survey: Questionnaires and Interviewer Instructions, the RAND Corporation, R-
2351/1-AID, March 1978.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Comment on ‘New, Repeat, and Return Migration: A Study of Migrant
Types,’” Southern Economic Journal, January 1978.
DaVanzo, Julie, “The Desirability of Disaggregation in Migration Modeling,” in Report of the
Conference on Economic and Demographic Methods for Projecting Population, American
Statistical Association, October 1977.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Migration Patterns and Income Change: Implications for the Human Capital
Approach to Migration: Comment,” Southern Economic Journal, October 1977.
DaVanzo, Julie, Why Families Move: A Model of the Geographic Mobility of Married Couples,
the RAND Corporation, R-1972-DOL, September 1976; also available as R&D Monograph
No. 48, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 1977.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Comment on M. J. Greenwood’s ‘Simultaneity Bias in Migration Models: An
Empirical Investigation,’” Demography, Vol. 13, No. 3, August 1976.
DaVanzo, Julie, Dennis N. De Tray, and David H. Greenberg “The Sensitivity of Labor Supply
Estimates to Choice of Assumptions,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 68, No. 3,
August 1976.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Differences Between Return and Nonreturn Migration: An Econometric
Analysis,” International Migration Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1976.
Butz, William P., and Julie DaVanzo, Economic and Demographic Family Behavior in
Malaysia: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis, the RAND Corporation, R-1834-AID,
October 1975.
DaVanzo, Julie, and D. H. Greenberg, “Assessing Regional Effects of Income Maintenance
Programs: A Guide to Policy Analysis,” The Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, Winter
1974.
DaVanzo, Julie, D. N. De Tray, and D. H. Greenberg, Estimating Labor Supply Responses: A
Sensitivity Analysis, the RAND Corporation, R-1372-OEO, December 1973.
DaVanzo, Julie, and D. H. Greenberg, Suggestions for Assessing Economic and Demographic
Effects of Income Maintenance Programs, the RAND Corporation, R-1211-EDA, June 1973.
DaVanzo, Julie, “Assessing the Potential Impact of an Income Maintenance Program on
Migration: Hypotheses and Suggestions for Research,” the RAND Corporation, P-5006, May
1973.
DaVanzo, Julie, An Analytical Framework for Studying the Potential Effects on an Income
Maintenance Program on U.S. Interregional Migration, the RAND Corporation, R-1081-
EDA, December 1972.
DaVanzo, Julie, The Determinants of Family Formation in Chile, 1960: An Econometric Study
of Female Labor Force Participation, Marriage, and Fertility Decisions, the RAND
Corporation, R-830-AID, August 1972.
DaVanzo, Julie, A Family Choice Model of U.S. Interregional Migration Based on the Human
Capital Approach, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1972.
Schultz, T. P., and Julie DaVanzo, Analysis of Demographic Change in East Pakistan: A Study
in Retrospective Survey Data, the RAND Corporation, R-564-AID, September 1970.
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Schultz, T.P., and Julie DaVanzo, Fertility Patterns and Their Determinants in the Arab Middle
East, the RAND Corporation, RM-5978-FF, May 1970; also included as Chap. 9 in Charles A.
Cooper and Sidney S. Alexander (eds.), Economic Development and Population Growth in the
Middle East, American Elsevier, New York, 1972.
In Progress or Under Journal Review
DaVanzo, Julie, and Pav Govindasamy, “Reproductive Health in Ethiopia: A Comparative
Analysis of the 2000 and 2005 Demographic and Health Surveys, will be issued a report of
Macro, International.
Hale, Lauren, Julie DaVanzo, Abdur Razzaque, and Mizanur Rahman, What Explains the
Decline in Infant and Child Mortality Rates in Matlab, Bangladesh?,“ almost ready for journal
submission.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Clifford Grammich, “Demographic Dividend or Demographic Drag?
Population Trends in India and China,” will be issued as RAND document.
DaVanzo, Julie, and Shahina Amin, “Do Multigenerational Living Arrangements Affect
Household Income Inequality? Evidence from Malaysia,” almost ready for journal submission.
Rahman, Mizanur, Julie DaVanzo, Abdur Razzaque, Kapil Ahmed, and Lauren Hale,
“Demographic, Programmatic, and Socioeconomic Correlates of Maternal Mortality in
Matlab, Bangladesh,” almost ready for journal submission.
Rahman, Mizanur, Julie DaVanzo, Abdur Razzaque, and Lauren Hale, “What Explains the
Lower Maternal Mortality in Matlab MCH-FP Area in Bangladesh?,” almost ready for journal
submission.
DaVanzo, Julie, Clifford Grammich, Mizanur Rahman, and Abdur Razzaque, “Do Family
Planning Services Affect Choice of Abortion Method in Bangladesh?,” almost ready for journal
submission.
Rahman, Mizanur, Julie DaVanzo, and Abdur Razzaque, “Socioeconomic, Demographic, and
Programmatic Factors Associated with Abortion in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1982-2002,” almost
ready for journal submission.
Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait, and Julie DaVanzo, “In the Shadow of HIV/AIDS: Is Population
Growth Still a Problem in Sub-Saharan Africa?” almost ready for journal submission.
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