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Full CV

Alternate Websites: http://www.pop.upenn.edu/people/associates.html#hsmith

Education:

1977  B.A., History and Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1979  M.A., Sociology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1982  Ph.D., Sociology (Population and Human Ecology), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Research:

• Family Planning System in China
• Community-level Variation in Fertility in Asia
• The Accretion of Higher Education in the United States
• Statistical Models for paired data within households

Selected Publications:

Articles (including Book Chapters) In print, in press, or forthcoming

Forthcoming Smith, Herbert L. “Causation and Its Discontents.” In Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, edited by Henriette
Engelhardt-Woelfler, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz. Springer
Verlag.

2008 Smith, Herbert L. « Un échantillon double pour minimiser le biais dû à la non réponse dans un sondage par courrier ». Pp. 334-339 in Méthodes de sondage : applications aux enquêtes longitudinales, à la santé, aux enquêtes électorales et aux enquêtes dans les pays en développement, edited by Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Philippe Guilbert, David Haziza, and Yves Tillé. Paris: Dunod.

2008 Smith, Herbert L. “Advances in Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.” Sociological Methods & Research 36(3):287-296.

2006 Ghuman, Sharon, Helen Lee, and Herbert L. Smith. “Measurement of Women’s Autonomy According to Women and Their Husbands: Results from Five Asian Countries.” Social Science Research 35(1):1-28.

2005 Smith, Herbert L. “Introducing New Contraceptives in Rural China: A Field
Experiment.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
599:246-271.

2005 Lundquist, Jennifer Hickes, and Herbert L. Smith. “Family Formation among Women in the U.S. Military: Evidence from the NLSY.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 67(1):1-13.

2004 Merli, M. Giovanna, Zhenchao Qian, and Herbert L. Smith. “Adaptation of a Political Bureaucracy to Economic and Institutional Change under Socialism: The Chinese State Family Planning System.” Politics and Society 31(2):231-256.

2003 Smith, Herbert L. “Some Thoughts on Causation as It Relates to Demography and Population Studies.” Population and Development Review 29(3):459-469.

2002 Morgan, S. Philip, Sharon Stash, Herbert L. Smith, and Karen Oppenheim Mason.“Muslim and Non-Muslim Differences in Female Autonomy and Fertility: Evidence from India, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.” Population and Development Review 28(3):515-537.

2002 Merli, M. Giovanna, and Herbert L. Smith. “Has the Chinese Family Planning Program Been Successful in Changing Fertility Preferences? Evidence from Linked Records in Four Counties in Rural Northern China.” Demography 39(3):557-572.

2000 Mason, Karen Oppenheim, and Herbert L. Smith. “Husband’s versus Wife’s Fertility Goals and Contraception Use: The Influence of Gender Context in Five Asian Countries.” Demography 37(3):299-311.

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