ICPSR and RCMD Research Paper Competition Winners Announced

ICPSR is pleased to announce the winners of our 2013 Research Paper Competitions.

Alexander Janke (B.S., Economics) of the University of Michigan earned first-place in the Undergraduate Competition with his paper "An Empirical Look at Malpractice Reform and the Intensive Margin of Physician Supply." The paper used Community Tracking Study Physician Survey to estimate the effect of noneconomic damage caps on physicians' willingness to accept Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance patients and on hours worked. While an undergraduate, Janke was named a James B. Angell Scholar and awarded University Honors. He will enter the School of Medicine at Wayne State University in the fall.

Natasha Yurk (M.A., Sociology) of Indiana University - Bloomington won the Master's Competition with her paper "The Strategic Parent: How School Performance Affects Parental Investment." The paper uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) to analyze whether reading test results and teacher assessments of language and literacy skills predict a range of parental investment in the later grades. Yurk won first place in the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) 2013 Student Paper Competition, Graduate Division for this paper. She was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for her Ph.D. work in Sociology which commences in the fall.

The first-place award in the Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD) Paper Competition was won by Sarah K. Allsberry (M.S.W.) of Washington University in St. Louis for her paper "The Unbanked in the U.S.: Similarities and Differences between Previously Banked and Never Banked Households." The paper used data from the 2009 Current Population Survey, Unbanked/Underbanked Supplement to explore differences and similarities in the history of bank account ownership among several groups, including Hispanics as compared to non-Hispanic households, single parent households, households in the South, and households that patronize Alternative Financial Services such as payday loans.

The second-place winner of the ICPSR Undergraduate contest was awarded to Ryanne Kikue Fujita-Conrads (B.A., Sociology) of Reed College for her paper, "Accepting the Foreign: Perceived Threat, Foreigner Exclusionism, and Social Distance from Immigrants in the United States and Spain." The paper used data from the 2009 Transatlantic Trends: Immigration Survey and tests Allport's contact hypothesis and Blumer's group position theory in regard to respondents' perceptions of economic and cultural threat and the effects of perceived economic and cultural threat on respondents' social distance from immigrants and immigration policy preferences.

The ICPSR Master’s Student second-place winner is Christine Y. Zhang (M.A., Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences) of Columbia University for her paper, "An Exceptional Dream: Aspiration as a Determinant of Self-Reported Happiness in the US." The paper uses data from the 2010 United States General Social Survey to examine the linkage between respondents' perception of upward mobility and belief in hard work as a path to success and self-reported happiness level.

Second-place in the Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD) Paper Competition went to Lauren Marks (B.S., Sociology) of Santa Clara University for her paper "Perceived Sources of Racial Inequalities and Class Standing: Impact on Justice Values of American Whites." The paper used data from two decades (1990-2010) of the General Social Survey to investigate the manner in which race and class inequalities were viewed depending on the perceived sources of the inequality. Lauren is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, graduated magna cum laude. Additionally, she earned the Witold Krassowski Sociology Award, Honorable Mention for this paper.

The first-place winners received $1,000; the second-place prize is $750. All the papers used data from the ICPSR or RCMD archive.

We are pleased to announce the 2014 ICPSR Research Paper Competitions for Undergraduates and Master’s Students and invites submissions from students and recent graduates at member institutions. The purpose of the competitions is to highlight exemplary research papers based on quantitative analysis. The awards are $1,000 for first place and $750 for second place in each category and publication on the ICPSR Research Paper Competition Winners Web site and in a special edition of the ICPSR Bulletin for the first place winners. See the competitions Web site for details. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014.

• The RCMD Research Paper Competition, for analyses on issues relating to minorities in the United States, including immigrants, using data from theResource Center for Minority Data.
• The ICPSR Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from ICPSR General Archive or Thematic Collections.
• The IFSS Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series.

Last Call for ICPSR Research Paper Competition Entries

The deadline for the ICPSR Research Paper Competition for undergraduate and graduate students is Thursday, January 31. For prizes, forms, and details, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html

Two weeks left for submissions to ICPSR Research Paper Competition

Students:  Have you just completed a research paper?

Faculty:  Have you just read an outstanding research paper? 

 Why not submit it to The ICPSR Research Paper Competition <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html>?

ICPSR invites submissions for our 2013 Research Paper Competition from undergraduates and master’s students at member institutions. 

The deadline for submissions is January 31!

The purpose of the competitions is to highlight exemplary research papers based on quantitative analysis. We are holding three contests this year:

1.  The ICPSR Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp>or Thematic Collections <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/partners/archives.html>.

2.  The IFSS Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IFSS/>

3.  The RCMD Research Paper Competition, for analyses on issues relating to minorities in the United States, including immigrants, using data from the Resource Center for Minority Data. <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD/>

All competitions are open to students currently pursuing or who recently received undergraduate or master’s degrees.

*The awards are $1,000 for first place and $750 for second place in each category.*
More information and entry form are found here:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html

Most Efficient Country at the Olympics?

With the Games of the XXX Olympiad underway, this week’s edition of The Economist’s daily chart features an analysis of the Olympics’ most successful countries.  The magazine established its rankings based on the number of competitors per medal won.  The most successful country – though it is now nonexistent – was East Germany.  The communist nation undertook effective but controversial training methods; however, the country’s practices yielded a highly competitive team, and its 3.3 medals per competitor topped the rankings.  The Soviet Union placed second, with 3.4 medals per competitor.  The U.S., though easily boasting the highest medal count of 2,292 total medals, ranked third with 4.1 medals per competitor.  

Research paper competition winners announced

ICPSR is pleased to announce the winners of our 2012 Research Paper Competitions.

Quentin Karpilow of Kenyon College won the Undergraduate Competition with his paper "Racial and Ethnic Threats in Pretrial Release Processing." The paper used State Court Processing Statistics, 1990-2006, County Characteristics (2000-2007), 1998 and 2000 Uniform Crime Reports, and the 1999 National Jail Census to examine pretrial release outcomes for adult defendants charged with drug felonies according to their racial or ethnic backgrounds and various community and incarceration settings. Karpilow was a 2011 ICPSR Summer Intern and has earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics. This paper was selected as the second-place winner of the 2012 North Central Sociological Association Student Paper Competition for Undergraduates.

Zornitsa Kalibatseva of Michigan State University won the Master's Competition with her paper "A Symptom Profile Analysis of Depression in a Nationally Representative Sample of Asian Americans." The study uses the National Comorbidity Survey to examine the differences in symptoms of depression between Asian Americans and European Americans.

The first-place award in the Resource Center for Minority Data Paper Competition was won by Amanda Mireles of Princeton University for her paper "Cultural Capital Investments: Concerted Cultivation and the Academic Achievement of Hispanic Kindergarten Students." Mireles analyzed data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to measure academic achievement of Hispanic students. She earned a B.A. with High Honors in Sociology, received Certificates of Proficiency in African American Studies and Latino Studies, and is the recipient of the 2011 Isidore Brown Thesis Award for this paper.

Second-place in the RMCD competition went to Danae Ross of Wayne State University for her paper "Black Feminism and Hip Hop: A Cross-Generational Disconnect." The paper used the 1993 National Black Politics Study to investigate the impact of a strong feminist perspective on the likelihood of listening to rap music among black women. Ross is a McNair Scholar, has earned a B.A. with High Honors in English and Sociology, and has been accepted in the Ph.D. program in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. This paper was selected as the third-place winner for the 2012 North Central Sociological Association Student Paper Competition for Undergraduates.

The first-place winners received $1,000; the second-place prize is $750. All the papers used data from the ICPSR or RCMD archive.

ICPSR is holding three competitions this year:

• The ICPSR Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive or Thematic Collections.
• The IFSS Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series.
• The RCMD Research Paper Competition, for analyses on issues relating to minorities in the United States, including immigrants, using data from the Resource Center for Minority Data.

All competitions are open to undergraduate and master's students, and recent graduates. See the competition Web site for details. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2013.

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