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Noreen Goldman

Professor of Demography and Public Affairs. D.Sc., Population Studies, Harvard University, 1977. Interests: quantitative analysis, health and mortality, survey design, mathematical demography.

Recent Activities

Noreen Goldman became a member of the Population Research Subcommittee of NICHD. She continued to serve as a member of the Board on Global Health of the Institute of Medicine, the Working Group on Teaching of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, and the advisory group for the RAND survey, the Los Angeles Study of Families and Children. She served as chairperson of the Nominating Committee of the PAA and is currently a member of the PAA Organizing Committee. During the past year, she participated in the Conference on Demography and Epidemiology at Georgetown University, the IUSSP Seminar on Demographic Training in the Third Millennium in Rabat, Morocco, the NAS Workshop on longitudinal demographic and health data in developing countries, the RAND Summer Institute on Aging, and the PAA Annual Meeting.

Recent Publications

Beckett, Megan, Maxine Weinstein, Noreen Goldman, and Yu-Hsuan Lin. "Do Health Interview Surveys Yield Reliable Data on Chronic Illness among Older Respondents?" American Journal of Epidemiology, 151:315-323. 2000.

Fu, Haishan, and Noreen Goldman. "The Association between Health-related Behaviors and the Risk of Divorce in the U.S.A." Journal of Biosocial Science, 32:63-88. 2000.

Glei, Dana A., and Noreen Goldman. "Understanding Ethnic Variation in Pregnancy-Related Behaviors, Health Care and Birth Outcomes in Rural Guatemala." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, NY. March 25-27, 1999, Ethnicity and Health, 5(1):5-22. 2000.

Goldman, Noreen, Anne R. Pebley, and Michele Gragnolati. "Choices About Treatment for ARI and Diarrhea in Rural Guatemala." Submitted.

Goldman, Noreen, Anne R. Pebley, and Megan Beckett. "Diffusion of Ideas about Personal Hygiene and Contamination in Poor Countries: Evidence from Guatemala." Social Science and Medicine, Forthcoming.

Goldman, Noreen, and Dana A. Glei. "Evaluation of Midwifery Care: A Case Study of Rural Guatemala." Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Submitted.

Goldman, Noreen. "Mortality Differentials: Selection and Causation." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Science. Forthcoming.

Goldman, Noreen, Anne R. Pebley, and Dana Glei. Pregnancy Care in Rural Guatemala: Results from the Encuesta Guatemalteca de Salud Familiar: Instituto de Nutricion de Centro América y Panamá and/or Population Council. Forthcoming.

Goldman, Noreen, Allison Hedley, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Teresa Seeman, and Maxine Weinstein. "Social and Biodemographic Linkages to Health among the Elderly: A Project Update." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, NY. March 25-27, 1999.

Goldman, Noreen, and Patrick Heuveline. "Treatment-Seeking Behavior and Child Illness in Guatemala." Tropical Medicine and Internal Health, 5(2):145-155. 2000.

Gragnolati, Michele, Irma Elo, and Noreen Goldman. "New Insights into the Far Eastern Pattern of Mortality." Population Studies, 53(1):81-95. 1999.

Heuveline, Patrick, and Noreen Goldman. "A Description of Child Illness and Treatment Behavior in Guatemala." Social Science and Medicine, 50:345-364. 2000.

Lin, I-Fen, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, and et al. "Children's Provision of Support to Their Elderly Parents in Taiwan." Demography. Submitted.

Lin, I-Fen, Noreen J. Goldman, Maxine A. Weinstein, and Teresa Seeman. "Transition in Support among the Elderly in Taiwan." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA. March 23-25, 2000.

Pebley, Anne R., Elena Hurtado, and Noreen Goldman. "Beliefs about Children's Illness." Journal of Biosocial Science, 31:195-219. 1999.

Pebley, Anne R., Arodys Robles, and Noreen Goldman. "Ethnic Identity and the Use of Ethnic Symbols in Rural Guatemala." Population Studies. Submitted.

Robles, Arodys, and Noreen Goldman. "Can Accurate Data on Birthweight be Obtained from Health Interview Surveys?" International Journal of Epidemiology, 28:925-931. 1999.

Rodríguez, Germán, and Noreen Goldman. "Improved Estimation Procedures for Multilevel Models with Binary Response: A Case Study." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. Forthcoming.