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Advisor, Ph.D.

  • Jurdi, Rozzet. In progress. Contraceptive dynamics in three Arab countries: Progress and challenges in promoting women’s reproductive health.
  • Halli, Shiva. 1984. Asian ethnic fertility in Canada: An application of the minority group status hypothesis.
  • Ng, Edward. 1992. Dependents and resource allocation in an aging society.
  • Kerr, Don. 1992. Life cycle demographic events and economic well-being.
  • Matthews, Beverly. 1994. The relationship between gender and fertility strategies.
  • Zhao, John. 1994. Leaving parental homes in Canada.
  • Hosgor, Ayse. 1996. Development and women's employment status: Evidence from the Turkish Republic 1923-1990.
  • Richards, Judy-Lynn. 2002. (co-adviser) Demographic correlates, social relations, and norms as determinants of availability of adult children as potential, instrumental, and basic-and-instrumental care providers.
  • Omariba, Walter. 2004. Levels, trends and correlates of child mortality in Kenya: An exploration into the phenomenon of death clustering.
  • Hennebry, Jenna, 2006. Globalization and the Mexican-Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program: Power, racialization & transnationalism in temporary migration.
  • Telake Sahleyesus, Daniel, 2006. Fertility transition in Ethiopia: A focus on urban fertility and the urban-rural differences.

Advisor, M.A.

  • Hirooka, K. 1980. Satisfaction with neighbourhood among immigrants in Toronto.
  • Tong, Shirley (now Shirley Ng). 1982. Spouse satisfaction and fertility.
  • Rassam, Andrée. 1984. Syrian farm households: Women's labour and the impact of technology.
  • Ng, Edward. 1986. Secularization and fertility in Islamic Tunisia.
  • Chen, Jiajian. 1986. Fertility transition in Mexico and Peru.
  • Charette, Denis. 1987. Gay identity formation and the influence of others on self-acceptance.
  • DeWit, Margaret. 1988. Kin support and formal service utilization among the elderly.
  • McCormick, Mark. 1991. Symbolic aspects of public policy.
  • Han, Yong. 1992. An examination of minority groups and fertility.
  • Green, Carole. 1993. The continuum of care: A children's services planning model.
  • Hou, Feng. 1993. Return inter-provincial migrants in Canada.
  • Kimulu, Elizabeth. 1993. Integration into development and status of women: the case of Kenya.
  • Cook, Cynthia. 1995. Understanding instability in the labour force.
  • Knezic, Zora (now Zora Arcese). 1995. Child care constraints on female work commitment and fertility.
  • Smith, Peter. 1996. A comparative analysis among men of gender-role orientations toward marriage and family.
  • McFarlane, Seth. 1997. Work-family conflict: Determinants of the domestic division of labour.
  • Hango, Darcy. 1998. Childhood residential mobility and educational attainment in Canada.
  • Cooke, Martin. 1999. On leaving home: Return and circular migration between First Nations and prairie cities.
  • Mannan, Haider. 1999. Determinants of contraceptive usage and method choice in Bangladesh.
  • Musilli, Sabrina. 2001. Educational homogamy and marital satisfaction.
  • Wilson, Jessica. 2001. Elderly Canadians and supportive exchange relationships.
  • Tenkorang, Eric. 2004. Family structure and child outcomes: A longitudinal study of sexual behaviour of Canadian adolescents.
  • Yeboah, Henry. 2004. Adolescent employment: Determinants and consequences.
  • Lou, Yimin. 2005. What happens to the ‘Healthy immigrant effect:’ The mental health of immigrants to Canada.
  • Moyser, Melissa. 2005. Why are Canadians having children? An investigation of the value attributed to children and its impact on demand for children. .

Advisor for major paper of M.A. students in non-thesis option:

  • Andrews, Mike. 1985. “Proposal to evaluate Ontario's Assisted Rental Housing Program, as it pertains to families in London, Ontario”. “Proposal to evaluate the Essex County Diversion Program”. “A critique of the Addiction Research Foundation's evaluation of the Therapeutic Community.”
  • Seabrook, Jamie. 2000. “The meaning and intent of common-law unions.”
  • Zahid, Mustafa. 2005. “Factors affecting infant and child mortality in Pakistan.”
  • Shakkour, Suha. 2005. “Lost in translation: A study of immigration, language and economic struggles in Canada.”
  • Preston, Vanessa. 2006. “Fertility differentials: A look at the fertility patterns of native and foreign-born Canadians.”

Member of Thesis Advisory Committee, Ph.D.:

  • Madan, Ashok. 1986. The demographic modelling of household cycles.
  • Chapman, Beatrice. 1987. Relative sex-role gratification: Egalitarianism and fertility decisions.
  • Loaiza, Edilberto. 1989. Socio-demographic characteristics and economic attainment of Latin American immigrants in Canada.
  • Chen, Jiajian. 1990. Wait-for-change strategy: A dynamic analysis of Chinese maternity histories.
  • Wu, Zheng. 1992. A social psychological analysis of remarriage.
  • Li, Sihe. 1992. Chinese women's experience of transition toward married state.
  • Bah, Sulaiman. 1993. Dynamics of morbidity and mortality in Africa and implications for health care planning.
  • Vidal, David. 1993. Differentials and determinants of fertility behaviour in Bolivia.
  • DeWit, Margaret. 1993. Educational attainment and timing of childbearing among recent cohorts of Canadian women.
  • Jeng, Momodou. 1993. Determinants of early childbearing among young female adults in the Gambia.
  • Hou, Feng. 1997. Neighborhood ethnic transition and summary segregation indices: A methodological assessment.
  • Liu, Jianye. 2004. Children’s schooling in Vietnam: Does gender matter?
  • Muhammad, Ali. 2005. Seeking explanations for high fertility in Pakistan.
  • Xu, Li. 2006. Intra-family gender relations, women’s well-being, and access to resources: The case of a Northern Chinese village.

Departmental Examiner, Ph.D.:

  • Wister, Andrew. 1984. Living arrangement choices among the elderly: A decision-making approach.
  • Thomas, Kausar. 1984. Household structure in Canada: Historical and provincial variations and their correlates.
  • Omwanda, Lewis. 1996. Communication, culture and reproduction: Analysis of contraceptive adoption in Kenya.
  • Rietschlin, John. 2000. Parents for life: Negotiating residential arrangements for adults with development disabilities.
  • Gyimah, Stephen. 2001. Childhood mortality and reproductive behaviour in Ghana and Kenya: An examination of frailty and non-frailty models.
  • MacCon, Karen. 2004. The impact of contexts on adolescent development trajectories during the time of transition to high school.
  • Matthews, Deborah. 2006. Can immigration compensate for below-replacement fertility? The consequences of the unbalanced settlement of immigrants in Canadian cities, 2001-2051.
  • Yacyshyn, Alison. 2006. A comparison of subjective and objective measures of health using contemporary Canadian data.

University Examiner, Ph.D.:

  • Springer, J. 1984. House price change, residential mobility and filtering: Metropolitan Toronto, 1970-1979, Department of Geography.
  • Speechley, Mark. 1986. The under-reporting of suicide in Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
  • Lavoie, C. 2002. Discours sportif et roman québécois: figures d’un chasseur du territoire, Department of French.
  • Caponi, V. 2006. Essays on Interregional and International Migration, Department of Economics.

External Examiner, Ph.D.:

  • Addai, I. 1995. Ethnic fertility differentials in Ghana and their consequences, University of Alberta.
    Mariko, S. 1996. L'accès au premier emploi à Bamako, Université de Montréal.
  • Benhamadi, B. 1997. Les determinants de l’endogamie au Maroc, DHS I et II, Université de Montréal.
  • Dorozynski, J. 2000. Fertility, feminism and family policy, Concordia University.
  • Tossou, A. 2003. Impact démographique et performances économiques des immigrants: une approche régionale au Québec (1976-1996) et au Canada (1996), Université de Montréal.

Member of Thesis Advisory Committee, M.A.:

  • Knight, Andrew. 1994. Social movement theory and environmentalism.
  • Tooke, Jeffrey. 1995. Dispossession and transformation: an evaluation of a Marxist framework in Canadian agriculture.
  • Rao, Jianhua. 1997. The economic fortunes of the baby bust generation.
  • Alexandrescu, Filip. 2002. Sociological perspectives on the environment and the environmental movement.

Departmental Examiner, M.A.:

  • Ford, Larry. 1978. Religious heterogamy and homogamy in Protestant and Catholic marriages.
  • Wilson, Kelsi. 1978. The Bahamas: A demographic study.
  • Trypuc, Joann. 1978. Families in Canada: Parental characteristics leading to the removal of a child from the home.
  • Trovato, Frank. 1978. The relationship between assimilation and ethnic fertility in Canada: An examination of census data.
  • Gregory, Joan. 1979. An examination of nativity fertility differentials in Toronto, Ontario.
  • Truscott, Susan. 1981. Economic growth or dependency.
  • Speechley, Mark. 1982. Fractured labour markets.
  • Jones, Roy. 1983. The theory of change and response: A reappraisal of the Japanese demographic experience.
  • Webb, Wendy. 1984. Women and work: Patterns of female labour force participation.
  • Riordan, Robert. 1984. The sociodemographics of stillbirth and infant mortality in Ontario: 1970, 1978.
  • Guo, Zhigang. 1985. Preliminary study of Chinese family household.
  • Wright, Andrew. 1986. A process evaluation of the evaluation specialization.
  • DeWit, David. 1986. The impact of demographic change on characteristics of the elderly's kin networks.
  • Jansson, Mikael. 1987. The pattern of Swedish emigration.
  • Romanelli, Terry. 1989. Attitudes to immigration.
  • Tait, Heather. 1990. China: Urbanization and socio-economic development.
  • Coish, David. 1991. Determinants of Newfoundland out-migration.
  • Bird-Geller, Rebecca. 1992. Non-formal education and third world women in the family.
  • Selvanathan, Kalhiran. 1994. Correlates of Canadian women's permissiveness toward premarital sexuality.
  • Schmidt, Gail. 1994. An evaluation workplan for the CECOOPASE Project, Haiti.
  • MacDonald, John K. 1994. Physical fitness training and well-being for the elderly.
  • Richards, Judy Lynn. 1995. Assistance with instrumental activities of daily living and the perceived health of elderly individuals.
  • Carrier, Patricia. 1995. The division of household labour among dual-earning couples.
  • Bell, Holly. 1996. Moral entrepreneurship and employment equity.
  • Cassidy, Gail. 1997. Gender differences in perceived control over life.
  • Hunt, Kimberley. 2000. Canadian official development assistance: Altruism or self-interest?
  • Gazso-Windle, Amber. 2001. Economic power, gender ideology and time spent in domestic labour.

University Examiner, M.A.:

  • Branscombe, N. 1982. The role of hedonic valence and psychological arousal on a second emotional state, Department of Psychology.
  • McCann, D. 1984. The impacts of a real aggregation on empirical analysis in Geography, Department of Geography.
  • Bellisario, L. 1991. The interactive contribution of fathers in early infancy, Department of Psychology.
  • Semenya, A. 2001. Intergroup and intragroup attitudes of ethnic minority groups, Department of Psychology.
  • Huot, S. 2005. Structural context and lived experiences of skilled international migration: a case study of South African professionals in London, Ontario, Department of Geography.

Co-authorships with students and student publications:

Beaujot, Roderic and Tony Haddad. 2000. “Productivity patterns at mid-life: Family and work.” Canadian Studies in Population 27(1): 61-82.

Beaujot, Roderic and Jianye Liu. 2002 “Children, social assistance and outcomes: cross-national comparisons,” Pp. 179-203 in Federation of Canadian Demographers, Demographic Futures in the Context of Globalization: Public Policy Issues. Ottawa: Federation of Canadian Demographers.

Beaujot, Roderic and Jianye Liu. 2005. “Models of time use in paid and unpaid work.” Journal of Family Issues 26: 924-946.

Beaujot, Roderic, Paul Maxim and John Zhao. 1994."Self-employment among immigrants: A test of the blocked mobility hypothesis."Canadian Studies in Population 21(2): 81-96.

Beaujot, Roderic and Ali Muhammad. 2006. “Transformed families and the basis for childbearing.” Pp. 15-48 in K. McQuillan and Z. Ravanera (Editors), Canada’s Changing Families: Implications for Individuals and Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Beaujot, Roderic and Peter Rappak. 1989. "The link between immigration and emigration in Canada, 1945-1986." Canadian Studies in Population 16(2): 201-216.

Beaujot, Roderic and Peter Rappak, 1990. "The evolution of immigrant cohorts." Pp. 111-140 in S.S. Halli, F. Trovato and L. Driedger, Ethnic Demography. Ottawa: Carleton University Press.

Beaujot, Roderic and Judy Lynn Richards.1996. "Intergenerational fairness in reforming the CPP." Policy Options 17(9): 45-48.

Beaujot, Roderic and Kit-ying S. Tong. 1985, "The effect of marital satisfaction on fertility." Genus 41(1-2): 13-21.

Cook, Cynthia and Roderic Beaujot.1996. "Labour force interruptions: the influence of marital status and presence of young children." Canadian Journal of Sociology 21(1): 25-41.

Cooke, Martin. 2002. The effects of personal characteristics on migration from prairie cities to First Nations.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 34(2):4-62.

Erfani, Amir and Roderic Beaujot. 2006. “Familial orientations and the rationales for childbearing behaviour.” Canadian Studies in Population 33(1): 49-67.

Halli, Shivalingappa S. 1987. How minority status affects fertility: Asian groups in Canada. New York: Greenwood Press.

Hango, Darcy W. 2006. “The long-term effect of childhood residential mobility on educational attainment. The Sociological Quarterly 47: 631-664.

Hou, Feng and Roderic Beaujot. 1994. "The differentiation of determinants among return, onward and primary migrants in Canada." Canadian Studies in Population 21(1): 1-19.

Hou, Feng and Roderic Beaujot.1995. "A study of interregional migration between Ontario and Atlantic Canada: 1981-1991." Canadian Journal of Regional Science 18 (2), 147-160.

Hou, F. and A. Milan. 2003. Neighborhood ethnic transition and its socioeconomic connections. Canadian Journal of Sociology 28(3): 387-410.

Kerr, Don and Roderic Beaujot. 2002. “Family relations, low income, and child outcomes: A comparison of Canadian children in intact-, step-, and lone-parent families.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 43(2): 134-152.

Kerr, Don and Roderic Beaujot. 2003. “Child poverty and family structure in Canada, 1981-1997.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 34(3):321-335.

Kerr, Don, Melissa Moyser and Roderic Beaujot. 2006. "Marriage and cohabitation: Demographic and socioeconomic differences in Quebec and Canada." Canadian Studies in Population 33(1):83-117.

Knezic, Zora and Roderic Beaujot.1995. "Work and childbearing decisions: The impact of family gender structure and child care" Pp. 77-83 in Federation of Canadian Demographers, Towards the XXIst Century: Emerging Socio-Demographic Trends and Policy Issues in Canada, Ottawa: Federation of Canadian Demographers.

Mannan, H.R. 2002. “Factors in contraceptive method choice in Bangladesh: goals, competence, evaluation and access,” Contraception 65(5): 357-364.

Mannan, Haider and Roderic Beaujot. 2006.“Readiness, willingness and ability to use contraception in Bangladesh.” Asia-Pacific Population Journal 21(1): 45-64.

Matthews, Beverly and Roderic Beaujot.1997. "Gender orientations and family strategies." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 34(4): 415-428.

McFarlane, Seth, Roderic Beaujot and Tony Haddad.2000. “Time constraints and relative resources as determinants of the sexual division of domestic work.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 25(1): 61-82.

Omariba, D. Walter Rasugu, Roderic Beaujot and Fernando Rajulton. 2007. “Determinants of infant and child mortality in Kenya: An analysis controlling for frailty effects.” Population Research & Policy Review 26(3), forthcoming.

Rao, V.K. and R. Beaujot.1986. "Effect of infant mortality on subsequent fertility in Pakistan and Sri Lanka." Journal of Biosocial Science 18: 297-303.

Smith, Peter and Roderic Beaujot.1999. “Men’s orientation toward marriage and family roles.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 30(3): 471-487.

Wai, Lokky and Roderic Beaujot.1982. "Residential mobility of the elderly in Canada." Canadian Journal on Aging 1(1-2): 43-51, 1982.

Zhang, Junjie and Roderic Beaujot.1998. “Family attributes in the return to full-time and part-time employment.” Canadian Studies in Population, 25(1): 29-44.