Honors and Awards

President, Population Association of America, 2011.
Member, Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, 1997-2003.
Fulbright Research Scholar, Award for Research in South Africa, 1997-98
Board of Directors, Population Association of America, 1995-97.
Fulbright Research Scholar, Award for Research in Brazil, 1989-90
Population Association of America, Dorothy S. Thomas Award, 1983
Rockefeller Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 1982-83
Population Council Fellow, 1980-82

Grants

• “Fertility Timing and Women’s Economic Outcomes in South Africa,” Hewlett Foundation/Population Reference Bureau Program in Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development, 2012- 2015 (co-Principal Investigator with Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town).
• “Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa,” Hewlett Foundation/ Population Reference Bureau Global Teams of Research Excellence, 2008-2011 (co-Principal Investigator with Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town).
• “Research Training in Population and Health in South Africa and China,” Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 2006-2011 (Principal Investigator).
• “Family Support and Rapid Social Change in South Africa,” (with Murray Leibbrandt) National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, 2003-2009 (Principal Investigator).
• “Families, Communities, and Youth Outcomes in South Africa,” National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, 2001-2006 (Principal Investigator).
• “Evolutionary Approaches to the Biodemography of Aging,” (with Theodore Bergstrom and Hillard Kaplan), National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, 1998-2001 (Principal Investigator).
• “Household Responses to Economic Shocks in Brazil,” National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, 1997-2001 (Principal Investigator).
• “Evolutionary Foundations of Family Organization,” (with Theodore Bergstrom), National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, 1994-97 (Principal Investigator).
• “Women’s Education, Female Labor Supply, and Fertility Decline in Brazil,” (with Guilherme Sedlacek), Rockefeller Foundation, Research Program on Women’s Status and Fertility, 1991-93.
• “Public Goods and the Economics of the Family” (with Theodore Bergstrom), National Institutes of Health, NICHD, 1985-87, 1988-91 (Principal Investigator).
• “Influences on Fecundity and the Timing of Births” (with Jeffrey Miron), National Institutes of Health, NICHD, 1986-87, 1988-91 (Principal Investigator).