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Narayan Sastry
Funded Research:
Children in Transition to Adulthood: Family and Siblings Connections (NICHD)
Creating a Lifecourse Panel From Birth to Early Adulthood (NICHD)
Dislocation and Return of New Orleans Residents After Hurricane Katrina (Russell Sage Foundation)
Dynamic Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and its Impact on Child Overweight (Department of Agriculture)
Emerging Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk Among Young Adults (NICHD)
Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations (NICHD)
Health, Wealth, and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel (NIA)
Neighborhood and Family Effects on Disparities in Chronic Disease (NICHD)
Neighborhood Effects on Children Health and Access to Care (HRSA)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in LBW (HRSA)
Resettlement and Well-Being of New Orleans Residents After Hurricane Katrina (NICHD)
Socioeconomic Disparities in Young Adult Health - Subontract (NICHD)
The Transition from Childhood into Adulthood among PSID Children, 2013 and 2015 (NICHD)
Transitions From Preschool Through High School: Family, Schools and Neighborhoods (NICHD)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Associate Director, Survey Research Center.
New Title for Narayan Sastry.
Ph.D., Princeton University
Dr. Sastry’s research interests center on studying the social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents, both in the United States and in less developed countries.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Jones, Malia, Anne R R. Pebley, and Narayan Sastry. 2011. "Eyes on the block: Measuring urban physical disorder through in-person observation." Social Science Research, 40(2): 523-537. PMCID: PMC3106307. DOI. Abstract.
Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah Burgard. 2011. "Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996." Population Research and Policy Review, 30(1): 81-100. PMCID: PMC3045198. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Sastry, Narayan, and A.R. Pebley. 2010. "Family and Neighborhood Sources of Socioeconomic Inequality in Children's Achievement." Demography, 47(3): 777-800. PMCID: PMC3000065. DOI. Abstract.
Fussell, E., Narayan Sastry, and Mark VanLandingham. 2010. "Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina." Population and Environment, 31(1-3): 20-42. PMCID: PMC2862006. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Sastry, Narayan, and Mark VanLandingham. 2009. "One year later: mental illness prevalence and disparities among New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina." American Journal of Public Health, 99(Suppl 3): S725–S731. PMCID: PMC2774198. DOI. Abstract.
Sastry, Narayan, K. McGonagle, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2009. "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Scientific Assessment of Biomeasures in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Biodemography and Social Biology, 55(2): 113-117. PMCID: PMC2824897. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Sastry, Narayan. 2009. "Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Results from a Pilot Survey." Organization and Environment, 22(4): 395-409. PMCID: PMC2846814. DOI. Local Access.
Sastry, Narayan. 2009. "Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study." Sociological Methods & Research, 38(1): 171-196. PMCID: PMC2747749. DOI. Abstract.
Weathers, Andrea C., Scott P. Novak, Narayan Sastry, and Edward Norton. 2008. "Parental nativity is an important factor associated with where children usually go for health care." Maternal and Child Health Journal, 12(4): 499-508. DOI. Abstract.
Chapters
Pebley, Anne R., and Narayan Sastry. 2007. "Neighborhoods, poverty, and children's well-being." In The inequality reader : contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender edited by David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelényi. 165-178. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press.