Research Area: Regional Studies:
Brazil

Recent Publications

Books

Kottak, Conrad. 2006. Assault on paradise : the globalization of a little community in Brazil, 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill.

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé. New York: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

2007

Levison, Deborah, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea. 2007. "Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour." International Labour Review, 146(3-4): 217-251.

2005

Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah Burgard. 2005. "The prevalence of diarrheal disease among Brazilian children: trends and differentials from 1986 to 1996." Social Science & Medicine, 60(5): 911-1163.

2004

Chang, Jui-Shan, E. Faerstein, George A. Kaplan, John W. Lynch, and C.S. Lopes. 2004. "Association of Weight Change With Ethnicity and Life Course Socioeconomic Position Among Brazilian Civil Servants." International Journal of Epidemiology, 33(1): 100-106.

Burgard, Sarah. 2004. "Race and Pregnancy-Related Care in Brazil and South Africa." Social Science and Medicine, 59(6): 1127-1146.

Sastry, Narayan. 2004. "Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: the Case of Child Survival in Sao Paulo, Brazil." Demography, 41(3)443-464.

2003

Duryea, Suzanne, and Mary P. Arends-Kuenning. 2003. "School Attendance, Child Labor and Local Labor Market Fluctuations in Urban Brazil." World Development, 31(7): 1165-1178.

2002

Burgard, Sarah. 2002. "Does Race Matter? Children’s Height in Brazil and South Africa." Demography, 39(4): 763-790.

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. "Migrating Bodies, Circulating Signs: Brazilian Candomblé, the Garifuna of the Caribbean, and the Category of ‘Indigenous Religions’." History of Religions, 41(4): 301-327.

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. "Models of the body in the ethnographic study of religion: the cases of Brazilian Candomble and the Garifuna of the Caribbean." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 14: 170-195.

Marteleto, Leticia. 2002. "The Role of Family Size on Adolescents' Schooling." Revista Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais, 19(2): 159-177.

Chapters

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2005. "Small Families and Large Cohorts: The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Schooling in Brazil." In Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries edited by Cynthia B. Lloyd. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

Marteleto, Leticia. 2004. "Demographic Transition." In Encyclopedia of International Development edited by Forsyth, T.. London and New York: Routledge.

Marteleto, Leticia. 2004. "Cairo Conference." In Encyclopedia of International Development edited by Forsyth, T.. London and New York: Routledge.

Conference Proceedings

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2005. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Schooling." Annals of the XXV International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Tours, France: July.

Marteleto, Leticia, and V. Miranda. 2004. "Educational Stratification in Brazil: The Role of Race and Gender." Annals of the Social Stratification Committee (RC28) of the International Sociological Association, Brazil.

PSC Reports

Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah Burgard. 2008. "Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment among Brazilian Children, 1986 to 1996." PSC Research Report No. 08-645. June 2008.

Hermalin, Albert, Mary Beth Ofstedal, and Rebecca Tesfai. 2006. "Future Characteristics of the Elderly in Developing Countries and Their Implications for Policy." Elderly in Asia Report No. 06-62. May 2006.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2006. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children’s Resources." PSC Research Report No. 06-591. March 2006.

Marteleto, Leticia. 2005. "Family Size, Demographic Change, and Educational Attainment: The Case of Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 05-584. November 2005.

Duryea, Suzanne, David Lam, and Deborah Levison. 2003. "Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 03-541. December 2003.

Levison, Deborah, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea. 2003. "Implications of Intermittent Employment for Child Labor Estimates." PSC Research Report No. 03-539. October 2003.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2002. "Small Families and Large Cohorts: The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Schooling in Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 02-519. August 2002.


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