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adams, jimi.  2005.  “Network Data from Religious Organizations: Congregation’s and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi.”  Paper presented at the Applications of Social Network Analysis Conference, October 20-21, Zurich, Switzerland. [Abstract only]

adams, jimi. 2007. Religion Networks and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University. [Text available upon request]

adams, jimi, and Jenny Trinitapoli. [forthcoming]. "Network Data from Religious Organizations: Congregations and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi." Applications of Social Network Analysis. Uwe Serdült und Volker Täube (eds), Zürcher Politik- & Evaluationsstudien, Vol 6. Universität Zürich.

adams, jimi, Jenny Trinitapoli, and Michelle Poulin. [forthcoming]. "Letter to the Editor regarding 'Male and Female Circumcision Associated with Prevalent HIV Infection in Virgins and Adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania'." [subscription required]. Annals of Epidemiology.

Alderman, Harold., Jere R. Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, John A. Maluccio, and Susan C. Watkins. 2001. "Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples." Demographic Research 5(4): 77-124.

Anglewicz, Philip, jimi adams, Francis Onyango, Susan Watkins, Hans-Peter Kohler. “The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06: Data Collection, Data Quality, and Analysis of Attrition” Demographic Research, 20(21) 503-540. Published online May 5, 2009.

Anglewicz, Philip and Hans-Peter Kohler. “Overestimating HIV Infection: The Construction and Accuracy of Subjective Probabilities of HIV Infection in Rural Malawi” Demographic Research, 20(6) 65-96. Published online February 9, 2009.

Anglewicz, Philip, Simona Bignami-Van Assche Shelley Clark, James Mkandawire. “HIV Risks Among Currently Married Couples in Rural Malawi: What do Spouses Know About Each Other” AIDS and Behavior, published online Dec 5, 2008.

Anglewicz, Philip, Simona Bignami-Van Assche Shelley Clark, James Mkandawire. (forthcoming). "HIV Risks Among Currently Married Couples in Rural Malawi: What do Spouses Know About Each Other." AIDS and Behavior.

Anglewicz, Philip. 2008. HIV Infection, Marital Dissolution and Migration in Malawi. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 2008, New Orleans, LA.

Anglewicz, Philip. 2008. Disclosure of HIV Status Among Rural Malawians. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 2008, New Orleans, LA.

Anglewicz, Philip. 2007. Migration, HIV Infection, and Risk Perception in Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. [Text available upon request]

Anglewicz, Philip, jimi adams, Francis Obare-Onyango, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Susan Watkins. 2006. The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06: Data Collection, Data Quality, and Analysis of Attrition. SNP Working Paper No. 12. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Anglewicz, Philip, Hans-Peter Kohler. 2005. “Overestimating HIV Infection: The Construction and Accuracy of Subjective Probabilities of HIV Infection in Rural Malawi.” Paper presented at the Meeting of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), July 18-24, Tours, France.

Anglewicz, Philip, Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Li-Wei Chao, David Chilongozi, Irving Hoffman, Hans-Peter Kohler, Francis Martinson, Francis Onyango, Georges Reniers, and Kirsten Smith. 2005. “The Collection of Biomarkers in Rural Malawi: What Did We Learn?” Paper presented at the Meeting of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), July 18-24, Tours, France.

Angotti, Nicole, Agatha Bula, Lauren Gaydosh, Eitan Kimchi, Rebecca Thornton, Susan Cotts Watkins, and Sara Yeatman. "The Fear Factor in HIV Testing: Local Reactions to Door-to-Door Rapid Blood Testing for HIV in Rural Malawi." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, August 11-14, 2007. [Text available upon request].

Angotti, Nicole, Kim Dionne, and Lauren Gaydosh. 2007. "Consent and HIV Testing at Antenatal Clnics in Rural Malawi." Unpublished working paper, University of Texas at Austin.

Baker, Kristine R. 1999. "Differentials in Child Mortality in Malawi." SNP Working Paper No.4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Behrman, Jere R., Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan C. Watkins. 2002. “Social Networks and Changes in Contraceptive Use over Time: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Rural Kenya,” Demography 39(4): 713-737. [A previous version of this paper, titled "How Can We Measure the Causal Effects of Social Networks Using Observational Data? Evidence from the Diffusion of Family Planning and AIDS Worries in South Nyanza District, Kenya", appeared as the Working Paper 2001-022 of the Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany].

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona. 2003. "Are we measuring what we want to measure? Individual consistency in survey response in rural Malawi," Demographic Research S1(3): 77-108.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona. 2004. Demographic Measurement and Analysis in Developing Countries: Three Essays. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona. 2004. "Husband-wife disagreement in rural Malawi: A longitudinal analysis." Under Review by Sociological Methods and Research.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona. 2005. "Network stability in longitudinal data: A case-study from rural Malawi," Social Networks 27(3): 231-247.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona, and Ari Van-Assche. 2007. "Poverty as a Risk Factor for AIDS: Evidence from a Panel Study in Rural Malawi," Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 30, 2007, New York, NY.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona, Georges Reniers, Alexander A. Weinreb. 2003. "An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality," Demographic Research S1(2): 31-76.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona et al. 2004. "Protocol for biomarker testing in the 2004 Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project." SNP Working Paper No.7, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona, Li-Wei Chao, Philip Anglewicz, David Chilongozi, and Agatha Bula. 2007. "The validity of self-reported likelihood of HIV infection among the general population in rural Malawi." Sexually Transmitted Infections 83(1): 35-40.

Bignami-Van Assche, Simona, Peter Fleming, Ari Van Assche, Catherine van de Ruit, and Philip Anglewicz. 2005. "The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Intra-household Time Allocation in Rural Malawi." Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association Meeting, November 18-20, Washington D.C., USA.

Bracher, Michael D., Gigi Santow, and Susan C. Watkins. 2003. "A Microsimulation Study of the Effects of Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage on Lifetime Risks of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi." Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 1-3, Minneapolis, USA. [Abstract only]

Bracher, Michael D., Gigi Santow, and Susan C. Watkins. 2003. "'Moving' and Marrying: Modelling HIV Infection among Newlyweds in Malawi," Demographic Research S1(7): 207-246.

Bracher, Michael D., Gigi Santow and Susan C. Watkins. 2004. “Assessing the Potential of Condoms to Prevent the Spread of HIV,”  Studies in Family Planning 35(1): 48-64.

Bühler, Christopher, Hans-Peter Kohler. 2003. "Talking about AIDS: The influence of communication networks on individual risk perceptions of HIV/AIDS infection and favored protective behaviors in South Nyanza District, Kenya," Demographic Research S1(13): 397-438.

Buehler, Christopher, Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan C. Watkins. 2000. "Who Influences Contraceptive Use: Evidence from a Social Network Study in S. Nyanza District, Kenya." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 22-24, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Chao, Li-Wei, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2007. The Behavioral Economics of Altruism, Reciprocity, and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper Presented at the Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 30, 2007, New York, NY, USA.

Chilongonzi, David, Agnes Chimbiri,  Irving Hoffman, Irving, Hans-Peter Kohler, Francis Martinson,  Susan C. Watkins and the MDICP Team. 2005. "Preliminary results from population-based voluntary counseling and testing." Paper presented at the Annual Dissemination Conference of the National AIDS Commission, November 15-19, Lilongwe, Malawi. 

Chimbiri, Agnes. 2001. "Autonomy or negotiation: What really matters for family planning in Malawi?" Paper  presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 28-31, Washington D.C., USA.

Chimbiri, Agnes. 2003. "The Condom is an 'Intruder in Marriage': Evidence from Rural Malawi."[subscription required] Social Science and Medicine 64(5): 1102-1115.

Chimbiri, Agnes. 2001. Women's Empowerment, Spousal Communication and  Reproductive Decision-Making in Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, Waikato University, New Zealand. [Text available upon request]

Chimbwete, Chiweni, Eliya M. Zulu and Susan C. Watkins. 2005. “The Evolution of Population Policies in Kenya and Malawi,” Population Research and Policy Review 24 (1): 83-104.

Chimwaza, Angela. 2002. A Descriptive Study of the Experience of Caregivers of Patients with Symptoms of AIDS in Resource Poor Communities: The Case of Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Chimwaza, Angela and Susan C. Watkins. 2004. “Giving Care to People with AIDS in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa,”  AIDS Care 16(7): 795-807.  

Clark, Shelley. 2003. "Extra-marital Sexual Partnerships and Social Network in Malawi." Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 1-3, Minneapolis MN, USA. [Abstract only]

Clark, Shelley, Michelle Poulin, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2007. "The Marital Process and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-02.

Delavane, Adeline and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2007. Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. University of Pennsylvania, Population Aging Center, PARC WPS 2007-06.

Deslandes, Kim, and Simona Bignami-Van Assche. 2007. "Gender Empowerment in the Context of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 30, 2007, New York, NY.

Dionne, Kim Yi. 2006. "Kanthu Kali Munye: A lesson in listening and learning in Rural Malawi." Ufahamu 33(1): 144-163.

Dionne, Kim Yi. 2007. "Global promises, local realities: Access to HIV testing and AIDS drugs in rural Malawi." Working paper, UCLA Globalization Research Center.

Doctor, Henry V. 2000. "Fertility, Contraceptive Use and Intra-Familial Transfers in Rural Malawi." SNP Working Paper No.5. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Doctor, Henry V. 2001a. "Determinants of Self-Reported Health Status in Rural Malawi." Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 28-31, Washington D.C., USA.

Doctor, Henry V. 2001b. "Decomposing the Changes in Life Expectancy at Birth in Malawi between 1966 and 1998." Submitted for publication.

Doctor, Henry V. 2002. "An Inter-survey Study of Adult Mortality in Rural Malawi (1998-2001)." SNP Working Paper No.6, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Doctor, Henry. 2003. "Estimating the Effects of Living Standards on Childhood Mortality in Rural Malawi." Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 1-3, Minneapolis MN, USA. [Abstract only]

Doctor, Henry V. 2004. "Adult mortality in rural Malawi,"  Southern African Journal of Demography 9(1): 49-66.

Doctor, Henry V. and Alex A. Weinreb. 2003. "Estimation of AIDS adult mortality by verbal autopsy in rural Malawi," AIDS 17(7): 2509-2514.

Doctor, Henry V. and Alex A. Weinreb. Forthcoming. "Mortality Among Married Men in rural Kenya and Malawi: A Life Table Analysis," Journal of African Population Studies.

Gerland, Patrick. 2002. "Individual Strategies and Community Responses to AIDS in Rural Malawi: A Preliminary Exploratory Analysis." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population of Association of America, May 1-3, Atlanta, USA.

Gerland, Patrick. 2004. "Do Social Interactions Affect HIV/AIDS Attitudes and Prevention Strategies in Rural Malawi?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1-3, Boston, USA.

Gerland, Patrick. 2005. Effects of Social Interactions on Individual AIDS-Prevention Attitudes and Behaviors in Rural Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, Office for Population Research, Princeton University, USA.

Gerland, Patrick and Peter Fleming. 2004. "HIV prevalence and orphan household distribution in a rural Malawi district." Paper presented at the International Health and GIS Conference (ESRI), 1-3 October, Washington D.C., USA.

Green, Steven R. 1998. The Roles of Social Interactions and Male Involvement in Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa: Three Essays. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Green, Steven R. 1999. "Normative Versus Instrumental Functions: Evidence of Social Network Differentiation among Rural Kenyan Men." Connections 22(2):37-49.

Helleringer, Stéphane. 2007. Fishing in Deep Waters: a Study of Partnerships With Migrants and Their Implications for the Diffusion of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Likoma Island. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. [Text available upon request]

Helleringer, Stéphane, Hans-Peter Kohler, Agnes Chimbiri, Praise Chatonda, and James Mkandawire. 2007. "The Likoma Network Study: Context, Data Collection and Initial Results." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 07-05.

Helleringer, Stéphane and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2005. "Social networks, perceptions of risk and changing attitudes towards HIV/AIDS: new evidence from a longitudinal study using fixed-effects estimation," Population Studies 59 (3): 265-282.

Holland, Dana. 2006. Socializing Knowledge: The Production and Circulation of Social Science in Malawi, 1964-2004. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in Sociology and Graduate School of Education. [Text available upon request]

Holland, Dana. 2005. "Social Science 'Out Here': Changing Political Structures and the Institutionalization of Social Science in Malawi." Paper presented at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Student Conference, April 8-9, Princeton, USA.

Kaler, Amy. 2001. "'Many Divorces and Many Spinsters': Perceptions of Marriage as a Degenerate Institution in Southern Malawi in the 1940s and 1990s," Journal of Family History 26(4): 529-556.

Kaler, Amy. 2003. " 'My Girlfriends Could Fill A Yanu-Yanu Bus': Rural Malawian Men's Claims About Their Own Serostatus," Demographic Research S1(11): 349-372.

Kaler, Amy. 2004a. "AIDS-talk in Everyday Life: HIV/AIDS in Men's Informal Conversation in Southern Malawi, 1999-2001," Social Science and Medicine 59(2): 285-298.

Kaler, Amy. 2004b. “The Moral Lens of Population Control: Condoms and Controversies," Studies in Family Planning 35(2): 105-115.

Kaler, Amy. Forthcoming. "'When They See Money and They Think It's Life': Money, Modernity and Morality in Southern Malawi", Journal of Southern African Studies.

Kaler, Amy and Susan C. Watkins. 2001. "Disobedient Distributors: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Would-Be Patrons in Community Based Family Planning Programs in Rural Kenya," Studies in Family Planning 32(3): 254-269.

Kimchi, Eitan. 2006. Reactions to At-Home Voluntary Counseling and Rapid HIV Testing in Rural Malawi. Working Paper, Jefferson Medical College.

Kohler, Hans-Peter. 1997. Fertility and Social Interaction: An Economic Approach. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, USA. [Text available upon request]

Kohler, Hans-Peter. 2001. Fertility and Social Interaction: An Economic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Abstract only]

Kohler, Hans-Peter and Jere R. Behrman, and Susan C. Watkins. 2000. "Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs: Nonlinearities and their Implications," Demographic Research 3(7).

Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman, and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2001. "The Density of Social Networks and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from S. Nyanza District, Kenya," Demography 38(1):43-58.

Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2002. “Social Network Influences and AIDS Risk Perceptions: Tackling the Causality Problem.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 9-11, Atlanta, USA. [Abstract only]

Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman, and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2007. "Social Networks and  HIV/AIDS Risk Perceptions." Demography 44(1):1-33.

Luke, Nancy. 1999. "Husbands, helpers, and healers: Women’s position and reproductive illness in rural Kenya," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 25-27, New York, USA.

Luke, Nancy. 2000a. "Rariu and Luo women: Women’s position and illness in Africa." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 12-16, Washington D.C., USA.

Luke, Nancy. 2000b. Rariu and Luo Women: Illness as Resistance in Rural Kenya. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Luke, Nancy. 2002a. “The Cultural Significance of Widowhood: Widow Inheritance and the Position of Luo Widows in the 1989 Kenyan Census”. Submitted for publication.

Luke, Nancy. 2002b. "Widows and 'Professional Inheritors': Understanding AIDS Risk Perceptions in Kenya." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 9-11, Atlanta, USA.

Luke, Nancy, Ina Warriner, and Susan C. Watkins. 1998. “Rariu as a ‘women’s problem’: Social factors affecting recognition and treatment of a reproductive health illness in rural Kenya.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, April 2-4, Chicago, USA.

Luke, Nancy, Ina Warriner, and Susan C. Watkins. 2001. "'Rariu doesn’t rhyme with Western medicine’: Lay beliefs and illness networks in Kenya.” In: C. Makhlouf Obermeyer (ed), Cultural perspectives of reproductive health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Miller, Kate, Susan C. Watkins, and Eliya M. Zulu. 2001. "Husband-Wife Survey Responses in Malawi," Studies in Family Planning, 32(2): 161-174.

Mtika, Mike Mathambo 2000. “Social and Cultural Relations in Economic Action: The Embeddedness of Food Security in Rural Malawi Amidst the AIDS Epidemic,” Environment and Planning 32: 345-360. [Abstract only]

Mtika, Mike Mathambo 2001. "The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Epidemic in Malawi: Nature of its Threat on Rural Households Food Security," Human Organization 60(2): 178-188.

Mtika, Mike Mathambo. 2003. "Family Transfers in a Subsistence Economy and under a High Incidence of HIV/AIDS: The Case of Rural Malawi," Journal of Contemporary African Studies 21 (1): 69-92.

Mtika, Mike Mathambo, and Henry V. Doctor. 2002. "Matriliny, Patriliny, and Wealth Flows in Rural Malawi," African Sociological Review 6(2):71-97.

Nankhuni, Flora. 2005. "Household deaths and Children's Schooling: Quantifying the Effect of HIV/AIDS on Adolescents' Work-Schooling Choices in Malawi." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1-3, Philadelphia, USA. [Abstract only]

Noël-Miller, Claire M. 2003. "Concern Regarding the HIV/AIDS epidemic and Individual Childbearing," Demographic Research S1(10): 319-348.

Obare, Francis, Peter Fleming, Philip Anglewicz, Rebecca Thornton, Francis Martinson, Agatha Kapatuka, Michelle Poulin, Susan Watkins and Hans-Peter Kohler. "Acceptance of repeat population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi." Sex Transm Inf published online 16 Oct 2008;doi:10.1136/sti.2008.030320

Obare, Francis. 2007. "An assessment of the HIV risk factors and
variations in HIV prevalence in rural Malawi." Paper presented at the
Fifth African Population Conference, Arusha, December 10-14.

Obare, Francis. Response to population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi. 2007. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, August 2007. [Text available upon request]

Obare, Francis. 2006. "The Effect of Non-Response on Population-Based HIV Prevalence Estimates: The Case of Rural Malawi." Paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual General Meeting, Los Angeles, March 30-April 1.

Obare, Francis, Michelle Poulin, and Agnes Chimbiri. 2007. "The changing sexual behavior and attitudes regarding condom use in the era of HIV/AIDS in Malawi: A longitudinal assessment." Unpublished working paper, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Poulin, Michelle. 2007. "Sex, Money, and Premarital Parnerships in Southern Malawi." [subscription required] Social Science and Medicine 65(11): 2383-2393.

Poulin, Michelle. 2007. Assessing data quality: An exploration of sexual activity reports and data collection modes in Malawi. Under review in invited collection at Demographic Research.

Poulin, Michelle. 2007. The Sexual and Social Relations of Youth in Rural Malawi: Strategies for AIDS Prevention. Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, Department of Sociology. [Text available upon request]

Poulin, Michelle. 2006. Giving and getting: Money exchange in intimate partnerships among youth in southern Malawi. In R.B. Riedl, S. Aksartova, and K. Mitchell (eds.), Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World. Approaches to Inequality, Identity, and Institutions. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies: Princeton University. Monograph Series, No. 4.

Poulin, Michelle. 2006. Schooling, sexual relations, and social relations among unmarried women in rural Malawi. Unpublished working paper, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Poulin, Michelle, and Adamson Muula. 2007. Male circumcision and HIV infection in Malawi. Unpublished working paper (and under review), Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Reniers, Georges. 2008. "Marital strategies for regulating exposure to HIV," Demography 45(2): 417-438. [issue forthcoming].

Reniers, Georges. 2006. HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Behavioral Change in Populations Affected by the AIDS Epidemic. Four Essays. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in Demography and Graduate Group in Sociology. [Text available upon request]

Reniers, Georges. 2003. "Divorce and Remarriage in Rural Malawi," Demographic Research S1(6): 175-206.

Reniers, Georges and Rania Tfaily. 2008. "Polygyny and HIV in Malawi," IBS Population Program Working Paper #2008-06, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Reynar, Angela. 1998. "He says, she says, who gets their way? Marital dynamics and fertility in Kenya." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, April 2-4, Chicago, USA.

Reynar, Angela. 2000. Fertility Decision Making by Couples among the Luo of Kenya. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Rutenberg, Naomi, and Susan C. Watkins. 1997. “The Buzz Outside the Clinics: Conversation and Contraception in Nyanza Province, Kenya,” Studies in Family Planning 28(4): 290-307.

Schatz, Enid. 2002a. "The Full Story: Women and Men Discuss Gender Relations in Rural Malawi." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 9-11, Atlanta, USA. [Abstract only]

Schatz, Enid. 2002b. Numbers and Narratives: Making Sense of Gender and Context in Rural Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography and Graduate Group in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Schatz, Enid. 2003. "Comparing, Contextualizing, and Conceptualizing: Enhancing Quantitative Data on Women's Situation in Rural Africa," Demographic Research S1(5): 143-174.

Schatz, Enid. 2005. "Take Your Mat and Go!: Rural Malawian Women's Strategies in the HIV/AIDS Era," Culture, Health and Sexuality 7(5): 479-492.

Smith, Kirsten. 2003. "Why are they worried? Concern about HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi," Demographic Research S1(9): 279-318.

Smith, Kirsten and Susan C. Watkins. 2005. "Perceptions of risk and strategies for prevention: responses to HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi," Social Science and Medicine 60(3): 649-60.

Swidler, Ann and Susan C. Watkins. 2006. "Ties of Dependence: AIDS and Transactional Sex in Rural Malawi." [subscription required] Studies in Family Planning38(3): 147-162.

Tavory, Iddo and Michelle Poulin. 2007. The institutional embeddedness of sex work in rural Malawi. Unpublished working paper, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Tawfik, Linda. 2003. Soap, Sweetness and Revenge: Patterns of Sexual Onset and Partnerships Amidst AIDS in Rural Southern Malawi. Ph.D. Dissertation, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, USA. [Text available upon request]

Tawfik, Linda and Susan C. Watkins. 2007. "Sex in Geneva, Sex in Lilongwe and Sex in Balaka." [subscription required] Social Science and Medicine 64(5): 1090-1101.

Thornton, Rebecca. 2006. Incentives and Information in Developing Countries. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University. [Text available upon request]

Thornton, Rebecca. 2005a. "The Impact of Incentives on Learning HIV Results." Paper presented at the Eric M. Mindich Conference on Experimental Social Science, March 1, Cambridge, USA.

Thornton, Rebecca. 2005b. "Is it Good to Know? The Demand for and Impact of Learning HIV Results."  Paper presented at the Northeastern University Development Conference, September 3, Brown University, USA.

Thornton, Rebecca, Agatha Bula, Kondwani Chavula, Simona Bignami-Van Assche, and Susan C. Watkins. 2005. "Reactions to Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Rural Malawi." Submitted for publication.

Trinitapoli, Jenny. 2007. The Role of Religious Organizations in the HIV Crisis of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas-Austin, Department of Sociology.

Trinitapoli, Jenny. 2006. "Religious Responses to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: An examination of religious congregations in rural Malawi," Review of Religious Research 47(3): 253-270 .

Trinitapoli, Jenny, and Mark D. Regnerus. 2006. “Religion and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Married Men: Initial Results from a Study in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45: 505-528.

Warriner, Ina. 1999. Non-Traditional Approaches to Traditional Demographic Questions: Three Essays on Fertility and Mortality. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Watkins, Susan C. 2000a. “Gender and Population.” In: Colin Blakemore and Susan Iversen (eds.), Gender and Society: The Herbert Spencer Lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Watkins, Susan C. 2000b. "Local and Foreign Models of Reproduction in Nyanza Province, Kenya, 1930-1998," Population and Development Review, 26(4): 725-759.

Watkins, Susan C. 2004. "Navigating AIDS in Rural Malawi," Population and Development Review, 30 (4): 673-705.

Watkins, Susan C., and Dennis Hodgson. 1999. "From Mercantilists to Neo-Malthusians: The International Population Movement and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya." Paper prepared for the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Population, Workshop on Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, January 28-29, 1998.

Watkins, Susan C. and Enid Schatz. 2001. “Avoiding AIDS: Global Advice and Local Strategies.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 28-31, Washington, D.C., USA.

Watkins, Susan C., and Ina Warriner. 2003. “How do we know we need to control for selectivity?,” Demographic Research S1(4): 109-142.

Watkins, Susan C., Kondwani Chavula, and Augustine Harawa. 2004. “Reactions to Voluntary Testing and Counseling in Rural Malawi.” Unpublished working paper.

Watkins, Susan C. and Chiweni Chimbwete. 2004.“Repentence and Hope Among Christians and Muslims in Rural Malawi,” Religion in Malawi, 11: 1-13.

Watkins, Susan C. and Ann Swidler. 2006. “Hearsay Ethnography: Capturing Culture in Action.” SNP Working Paper No.9, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Watkins, Susan C., Naomi Rutenberg and Steven R. Green.  1995. “Diffusion and Debate: Reproductive Change in Nyanza Province, Kenya”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 5-8, San Francisco, USA.

Watkins, Susan C., Naomi Rutenberg and David Wilkinson. 1997. “Orderly Theories, Disorderly Women.” In: G.W. Jones, R.M. Douglas, J.C. Caldwell and R.M. D’Souza (eds.), The Continuing Demographic Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Watkins, Susan C., Jere Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu. 2003. "Introduction to "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa," Demographic Research, S1(1): 1-30.

Watkins, Susan C., Hans-Peter Kohler and Jere Behrman. 2004. "The Influence of Cross-Gender Conversational Networks on Responses to AIDS in Rural Malawi." Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1-3, Boston, USA. [Abstract only]

Watkins, Susan C., N. Rutenberg, S. Green, C. Onoko, K. White, N. Franklin and S. Clark. 1995. “ ‘Circle no bicycle’ or Everything You Should Want to Know about Survey Data but Were Afraid to Ask.” SNP Working Paper No.1, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Weinreb, Alex A. 1998. “PARC Pre-Test Study on Intra-Familial Transfers and Health Status, Malawi 1998: Field Report.” SNP Working Paper No.2, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Weinreb, Alex A. 1999a. “Changes in the Meaning of Age Among the Kenyan Luo: Some Elderly Male Views of Recent Social Change.” SNP Working Paper No.3, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Weinreb, Alex A. 1999b. “Estimating HIV Incidence from Mortality Rates: A Method and Agenda.” In: Proceedings of the Third African Population Conference, Volume 2, Durban, South Africa, December 6-10, 1999, pp. 413-430. Union for African Population Studies and National Population Unit (South Africa).

Weinreb, Alex A. 1999c. “The Role of Political Actors in Constructing Fertility Transitions: Interpreting Ethnic Differences in Fertility in Kenya.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 25-27, New York, USA.

Weinreb, Alex A. 2000a. “Insider- vs. Stranger-Interviewer Effects in Social Network Data.” Paper presented at the International Union of the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Conference on Partnership Networks and the Spread of HIV and Other Infections, February 7-10, 2000, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Weinreb, Alex A. 2000b. "Was Goode Right? New Data on the Nucleation of Family Ties in Rural Malawi." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 22-24, Los Angeles, USA.

Weinreb, Alex A. 2000c. Integrating Respondents, Community, and the State in the Analysis of Contraceptive Use in Kenya. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Group in Demography and Graduate Group in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [Text available upon request]

Weinreb, Alex A. 2001. "Substitution and Substitutability: The Effects of Kin Availability on Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi." Paper presented at the IUSSP/Academica Sinica Conference: Age Structure Transitions and Policy Dynamics: The Allocation of Public and Private Resources Across Generations, December 6-8, Taipei, Taiwan. In: Anne H. Gauthier, Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar (eds.), The Distribution of Private and Public Resources Across Generations. Oxford University Press/IUSSP.

Weinreb, Alex A. 2002. "Lateral and vertical intergenerational exchange in rural Malawi," Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 12:1-38.

Weinreb, Alex A. 2003. "Change and instability: A multilevel analysis of AIDS-related conversational networks among Malawian women," Demographic Research S1(12): 373-396.

Weinreb, Alex A., Sangeetha Madhavan, and Patricia Stern. 1998. “‘The Gift Received Must be Repaid’: Respondents, Researchers and Gifting.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, March 27, Philadelphia, USA.

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Yeatman, Sara and Jenny Trinitapoli. 2007. "Beyond Denomination: New Tests of Whether and How Religion Matters for Family Planning." Working Paper, University of Texas-Austin. Working Paper, University of Texas-Austin.

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Zulu Eliya M. 1999a. "The role of traditional family planning in Africa’s Contraceptive revolution:  Evidence from Malawi and Ghana." Poster presented at the Annula Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 25-27, New York, USA.

Zulu Eliya M. 1999b. "Changes in traditional family planning strategies and practices in Sub-Saharan Africa." Paper presented at the African Population and Health Research Center Media Seminar, May 10-14, Nairobi, Kenya.

Zulu, Eliya M. 2000. "The Confluence of Gender Roles and Reproductive Control in Malawi." Under Review by Studies in Family Planning.

Zulu Eliya M. 2001a. "The role of men and women in making reproductive decisions in Malawi." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting og the Population Association of America, March 28-31, Washington D.C., USA.  

Zulu Eliya M. 2001b. "What can family planning programs learn from traditional reproductive beliefs and practices? - A case study from Malawi." Paper presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Seminar on Reproductive Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, November 2-4, Nairobi, Kenya.

Zulu, Eliya M. 2001c. "Ethnic Variations in Observance and Rationale for Postpartum Sexual Abstinence in Malawi," Demography 38(4): 467-479.

Zulu, Eliya M. and Gloria Chepngeno. 2003. "Spousal communication about the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi," Demographic Research S1(8): 247-278.

Zulu Eliya M.  and E. Kalipeni. 2003. "Changes in Reproductive Ideology and Its Control from Natural to Limited Fertility Regimes in Malawi." In: Agyei-Mensah S. and Casterline J.B. (eds), Fertility and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Collection of Microdemographic Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Zulu Eliya M., Susan C. Watkins, and Evasiusi Bauni. 1998. "Is integrating family planning with AIDS/STD services like combining apples and oranges?  Evidence from Nyanza Province, Kenya." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 2-4, Chicago, USA.

Zulu, Eliya M., Chiweni E. Chimbwete., Susan C. Watkins., and Gloria Chepngeno. 2002. "The Role of Policy Environment in Fertility Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Kenya and Malawi." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 9-11, Atlanta, USA. [Abstract only]

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