N Sastry
Biographic Data
| ID | 14208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Sastry |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Sastry |
| SIGNATURE | SASTRY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9093-0484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 484 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Learning From Natural Experiments to Accelerate Demographic Research on Climate‐Related Threats to Human Populations
Climate change has increased the destructive force of natural hazards and the occurrence of disasters that damage housing and infrastructure and threaten the health and wellbeing of human populations. Demographic research on disasters advances understanding of climate impacts on coastal populations exposed to tropical cyclones, storm surge, and flooding. However, rigorous study designs that allow for inferences about causal mechanisms are needed.…
Specific domains of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) associated with improved adult health: A nationally representative study
Experiencing childhood peer support, a healthy school climate, and neighborhood safety were especially protective against multiple adult health conditions, including for ACE exposed individuals. Interventions that promote PCEs may yield population health gains
Health in Early Adolescence and Paid Employment
This study examines the relationship between health and adolescent employment. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics' Child Development Supplement and Transition into Adulthood Supplement, we examine a cohort of 2,925 youth who were followed from childhood into adolescence. We focus on two outcomes measured when sample members were ages 16, 17, and 18: employment status and average weekly hours worked. With these data, we test the hy…
Intergenerational Associations between Parents’ and Children’s Adverse Childhood Experience Scores
Parents with higher ACE scores are far more likely to have children with higher ACEs. Addressing parenting stress, aggravation, and discord may interrupt intergenerational adversity cycles
Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Children’s Behavioral Health Problems
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include stressful and potentially traumatic events associated with higher risk of long-term behavioral problems and chronic illnesses. Whether parents' ACE counts (an index of standard ACEs) confer intergenerational risk to their children's behavioral health is unknown. In this study, we estimate the risk of child behavioral problems as a function of parent ACE counts. METHODS: We ob…
Sequential Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on Children’s Reading and Math Test Scores
Prior research has suggested that children living in a disadvantaged neighborhood have lower achievement test scores, but these studies typically have not estimated causal effects that account for neighborhood choice. Recent studies used propensity score methods to account for the endogeneity of neighborhood exposures, comparing disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged neighborhoods. We develop an alternative propensity function approach in which cumul…
Fifty Years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Past, Present, and Future
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world's longest running household panel survey. Since it began in 1968, it has collected data on the same families and their descendants, making it an essential part of America's data infrastructure for empirically based social science research. The PSID arose from the War on Poverty as a tool for evaluating poverty dynamics, and this year (2018) marks 50 years of data collection. Because of its lo…
Effectiveness of a Time-limited Incentive on Participation by Hard-to-reach Respondents in a Panel Study
We describe an experiment to provide a time-limited incentive among a random sample of 594 hard-to-reach respondents, 200 of whom were offered the incentive to complete all survey components of a study during a three-week winter holiday period. Sample members were primary caregivers of children included in the 2014 Child Development Supplement to the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The incentive provided US$50 to caregivers who completed a 7…
Using vignettes to rethink Latino-white disparities in self-rated health
Immigrant Latino Neighborhoods and Mortality Among Infants Born to Mexican-Origin Latina Women
The Location of Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Year After Hurricane Katrina
Using individual data from the restricted version of the American Community Survey, we examined the displacement locations of pre–Hurricane Katrina adult residents of New Orleans in the year after the hurricane. More than one-half (53 %) of adults had returned to—or remained in—the New Orleans metropolitan area, with just under one-third of the total returning to the dwelling in which they resided prior to Hurricane Katrina. Among the remainder, …
The effect of Hurricane Katrina on the prevalence of health impairments and disability among adults in New Orleans: Differences by age, race, and sex
Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment Among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996
Eyes on the block: Measuring urban physical disorder through in-person observation
Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini coefficients and concentration indices and multilevel regression models. We found no inequality in children’s achievement by family income when other variables in the model were held constant. Mo…
Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Results from a Pilot Survey
This article introduces us to the complexities of conducting social scientific research in a major urban disaster zone and reports on results from the most systematic survey at the time aimed at tracking the whereabouts of pre-Katrina residents during the first year of recovery, the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Survey. This survey drew an area-probability sample of pre-Katrina dwellings and set out to interview the residents approximatel…
One Year Later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Objectives. We examined whether there were high levels of mental illness among displaced New Orleans, LA, residents in the fall of 2006, 1 year after Hurricane Katrina. Methods. We used data from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study, which measured the prevalence of probable mild or moderate and serious mental illness among a representative sample of people who resided in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane, including people who e…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Scientific Assessment of Biomeasures in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
This special issue of Biodemography and Social Demography assesses the value to social science and health research of incorporating biomeasures in a social survey. The focus is on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), an ongoing, nationally representative panel study of U.S. households. A brief description of the PSID and the features that make it a promising survey for biomeasures is provided along with an overview of each individual articl…
Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study
The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study is designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the city of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. The study is based on a representative sample of pre-Katrina dwellings in the city. Respondents were administered a short paper-and-pencil interview by mail, by telephone, or in person. The pilot study was fielded in the fall of 2006, app…
Parental Nativity Affects Children’s Health and Access to Care
Parental Nativity is an Important Factor Associated with Where Children Usually Go for Health Care
Prentice Et Al. Respond
We thank Carter-Pokras and Zambrana for their comments and the opportunity to further discuss how the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS) protects sensitive information such as respondents’ legal status. Researchers who collect sensitive information have an obligation to protect respondents’ confidentiality, privacy, and safety. Yet there is another significant obligation—to science, the public interest, and the respondents themse…
Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health
The design of a multilevel survey of children, families, and communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey
Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health
Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
The design of a multilevel survey of children, families, and communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey
Community characteristics, individual and household attributes, and child survival in brazil
This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between community characteristics, household attributes, and child survival in Brazil. The principal objectives are to investigate how the social and environmental context in which a child is raised affects his or her survival chances, and to analyze how household variables modify the effects of community characteristics. The interaction effects we examine help to explain the effects of communit…
What explains rural-urban differentials in child mortality in Brazil
Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini coefficients and concentration indices and multilevel regression models. We found no inequality in children’s achievement by family income when other variables in the model were held constant. Mo…
Family-level Clustering of Childhood Mortality Risk in Northeast Brazil
The clustering of childhood mortality risk by family in Northeast Brazil is investigated. The extent of family clustering is estimated before and after controlling for observed child and family demographic reproductive and socioeconomic characteristics and unobserved community characteristics. The study also investigates the extent to which the coefficient estimates and standard errors are altered with better controls for unobserved heterogeneity…
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil
I examined trends in socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, over a 21-year period from 1970 to 1991, during which much of the mortality transition unfolded. During this time, there was a decline in inequality in under-five mortality by household wealth but a substantial increase by mother’s education. Improvements in infrastructure and economic development were associated with lower levels of socioe…
One Year Later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Objectives. We examined whether there were high levels of mental illness among displaced New Orleans, LA, residents in the fall of 2006, 1 year after Hurricane Katrina. Methods. We used data from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study, which measured the prevalence of probable mild or moderate and serious mental illness among a representative sample of people who resided in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane, including people who e…
Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses
Objectives. We compared health insurance status transitions of nonimmigrants and immigrants. Methods. We used multivariate survival analysis to examine gaining and losing insurance by citizenship and legal status among adults with the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. Results. We found significant differences by citizenship and legal status in health insurance transitions. Undocumented immigrants were less likely to gain and more likely…
Eyes on the block: Measuring urban physical disorder through in-person observation
The Location of Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Year After Hurricane Katrina
Using individual data from the restricted version of the American Community Survey, we examined the displacement locations of pre–Hurricane Katrina adult residents of New Orleans in the year after the hurricane. More than one-half (53 %) of adults had returned to—or remained in—the New Orleans metropolitan area, with just under one-third of the total returning to the dwelling in which they resided prior to Hurricane Katrina. Among the remainder, …
Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study
The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study is designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the city of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. The study is based on a representative sample of pre-Katrina dwellings in the city. Respondents were administered a short paper-and-pencil interview by mail, by telephone, or in person. The pilot study was fielded in the fall of 2006, app…
Sequential Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on Children’s Reading and Math Test Scores
Prior research has suggested that children living in a disadvantaged neighborhood have lower achievement test scores, but these studies typically have not estimated causal effects that account for neighborhood choice. Recent studies used propensity score methods to account for the endogeneity of neighborhood exposures, comparing disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged neighborhoods. We develop an alternative propensity function approach in which cumul…
The effect of Hurricane Katrina on the prevalence of health impairments and disability among adults in New Orleans: Differences by age, race, and sex
The prevalence of diarrheal disease among Brazilian children: Trends and Differentials From 1986 to 1996
Fifty Years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Past, Present, and Future
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world's longest running household panel survey. Since it began in 1968, it has collected data on the same families and their descendants, making it an essential part of America's data infrastructure for empirically based social science research. The PSID arose from the War on Poverty as a tool for evaluating poverty dynamics, and this year (2018) marks 50 years of data collection. Because of its lo…
Using vignettes to rethink Latino-white disparities in self-rated health
Effectiveness of a Time-limited Incentive on Participation by Hard-to-reach Respondents in a Panel Study
We describe an experiment to provide a time-limited incentive among a random sample of 594 hard-to-reach respondents, 200 of whom were offered the incentive to complete all survey components of a study during a three-week winter holiday period. Sample members were primary caregivers of children included in the 2014 Child Development Supplement to the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The incentive provided US$50 to caregivers who completed a 7…
Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment Among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Scientific Assessment of Biomeasures in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
This special issue of Biodemography and Social Demography assesses the value to social science and health research of incorporating biomeasures in a social survey. The focus is on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), an ongoing, nationally representative panel study of U.S. households. A brief description of the PSID and the features that make it a promising survey for biomeasures is provided along with an overview of each individual articl…
Prentice Et Al. Respond
We thank Carter-Pokras and Zambrana for their comments and the opportunity to further discuss how the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS) protects sensitive information such as respondents’ legal status. Researchers who collect sensitive information have an obligation to protect respondents’ confidentiality, privacy, and safety. Yet there is another significant obligation—to science, the public interest, and the respondents themse…
Community characteristics, individual and household attributes, and child survival in brazil
This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between community characteristics, household attributes, and child survival in Brazil. The principal objectives are to investigate how the social and environmental context in which a child is raised affects his or her survival chances, and to analyze how household variables modify the effects of community characteristics. The interaction effects we examine help to explain the effects of communit…
What explains rural-urban differentials in child mortality in Brazil
Family-level Clustering of Childhood Mortality Risk in Northeast Brazil
The clustering of childhood mortality risk by family in Northeast Brazil is investigated. The extent of family clustering is estimated before and after controlling for observed child and family demographic reproductive and socioeconomic characteristics and unobserved community characteristics. The study also investigates the extent to which the coefficient estimates and standard errors are altered with better controls for unobserved heterogeneity…
The importance of international demographic research for the United States
The Quality of Retrospective Data: An Examination of Long-Term Recall in a Developing Country
Megan Beckett, Julie Da Vanzo, Narayan Sastry, Constantijn Panis, Christine Peterson, The Quality of Retrospective Data: An Examination of Long-Term Recall in a Developing Country, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Summer, 2001), pp. 593-625
Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia
I assess the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution from a widespread series of fires that occurred in Indonesia between April and November of 1997. I describe how the fires occurred and why the associated air pollution was so widespread and long lasting. The main objective is to uncover any mortality effects and to assess how large and important they were. I also investigate whether the mortality effects were persistent or whethe…
The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Codebook
The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Field Interviewer Manual
An Investigation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Weight in Chicago Neighborhoods
We examine differences in the mean birth weights of infants born to non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-origin Hispanic mothers (of any race) in Chicago in 1990 using linear regression models with neighborhood fixed effects. Our pooled models accounted for 64% of the black-white difference and 57% of the black/Mexican-origin Hispanic difference. Differences in the relationship between measured characteristics and birth weight acco…
Urbanization, development and under-five mortality differentials by place of residence in São Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991
In this paper, I examine differentials in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between urban and rural areas and by location within urban areas over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991. I also investigate economic inequalities i
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil
I examined trends in socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, over a 21-year period from 1970 to 1991, during which much of the mortality transition unfolded. During this time, there was a decline in inequality in under-five mortality by household wealth but a substantial increase by mother’s education. Improvements in infrastructure and economic development were associated with lower levels of socioe…
Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses
Objectives. We compared health insurance status transitions of nonimmigrants and immigrants. Methods. We used multivariate survival analysis to examine gaining and losing insurance by citizenship and legal status among adults with the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. Results. We found significant differences by citizenship and legal status in health insurance transitions. Undocumented immigrants were less likely to gain and more likely…
The prevalence of diarrheal disease among Brazilian children: Trends and Differentials From 1986 to 1996
Prentice Et Al. Respond
We thank Carter-Pokras and Zambrana for their comments and the opportunity to further discuss how the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS) protects sensitive information such as respondents’ legal status. Researchers who collect sensitive information have an obligation to protect respondents’ confidentiality, privacy, and safety. Yet there is another significant obligation—to science, the public interest, and the respondents themse…
Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health
The design of a multilevel survey of children, families, and communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey
Parental Nativity Affects Children’s Health and Access to Care
Parental Nativity is an Important Factor Associated with Where Children Usually Go for Health Care
Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Results from a Pilot Survey
This article introduces us to the complexities of conducting social scientific research in a major urban disaster zone and reports on results from the most systematic survey at the time aimed at tracking the whereabouts of pre-Katrina residents during the first year of recovery, the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Survey. This survey drew an area-probability sample of pre-Katrina dwellings and set out to interview the residents approximatel…
One Year Later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Objectives. We examined whether there were high levels of mental illness among displaced New Orleans, LA, residents in the fall of 2006, 1 year after Hurricane Katrina. Methods. We used data from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study, which measured the prevalence of probable mild or moderate and serious mental illness among a representative sample of people who resided in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane, including people who e…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Scientific Assessment of Biomeasures in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
This special issue of Biodemography and Social Demography assesses the value to social science and health research of incorporating biomeasures in a social survey. The focus is on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), an ongoing, nationally representative panel study of U.S. households. A brief description of the PSID and the features that make it a promising survey for biomeasures is provided along with an overview of each individual articl…
Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study
The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study is designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the city of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. The study is based on a representative sample of pre-Katrina dwellings in the city. Respondents were administered a short paper-and-pencil interview by mail, by telephone, or in person. The pilot study was fielded in the fall of 2006, app…
Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini coefficients and concentration indices and multilevel regression models. We found no inequality in children’s achievement by family income when other variables in the model were held constant. Mo…
Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment Among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996
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