Narayan Sastry

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Adjunct Senior Social Scientist
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in public affairs and demography, Princeton University

Overview

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey
  • Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study

Selected Publications

Kevin McCarthy et al., The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina, RAND Corporation (TR-369), 2006

D. A. Cohen et al., "Collective Efficacy and Obesity: The Potential Influence of Social Factors on Health," Social Science and Medicine, 2005

J. Prentice et al., "Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses?" American Journal of Public Health, 95(1), 2005

N. Sastry et al., "The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study," Social Science Research, 2005

N. Sastry and S. Burgard, "The Prevalence of Diarrheal Disease Among Brazilian Children: Trends and Differen-tials from 1986 to 1996," Social Science and Medicine, 60(5), 2005

N. Sastry, "Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in São Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991," Demographic Research, Special Collection 2, 2004

Publications

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: User's Guide and Codebook - 2012

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Telephone Questionnaires - 2012

Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment Among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996 - 2011

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Interviewer Computer Manual - 2011

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Interviewer Training Manual - 2011

How Fare the Displaced and Returned Residents of New Orleans? Results of an Innovative Pilot Survey - 2010

The Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey Questionnaire - 2010

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Household Questionnaires - 2010

How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity - 2007

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Neighborhood Observations Codebook - 2007

The Los Angeles Neighborhood Services and Characteristics Database: Codebook - 2007

Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study - 2007

Collective Efficacy and Obesity: The Potential Influence of Social Factors on Health - 2006

The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey - 2006

The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina - 2006

Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses? - 2005

The Prevalence of Diarrheal Disease Among Brazilian Children: Trends and Differentials from 1986 to 1996 - 2005

Neighborhoods, Poverty and Children's Well-being - 2004

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Household Questionnaires (Spanish) - 2004

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Household Questionnaires - 2004

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Codebook - 2004

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Field Interviewer Manual - 2004

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Neighborhood Observation Forms and Interviewer Manual - 2004

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: The Case of Child Survival in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 2004

Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991 - 2004

An Investigation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birthweight in Chicago Neighborhoods - 2003

Concentrated Poverty vs. Concentrated Affluence: Effects on Neighborhood Social Environments and Children’s Outcomes - 2003

Neighborhood Definitions and the Spatial Dimension of Daily Life in Los Angeles - 2003

Neighborhood and Family Effects on Children’s Health in Los Angeles - 2003

Neighborhoods, Poverty and Children’s Well-being: A Review - 2003

Non-Response in the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey - 2003

Diarrheal Disease and its Treatment Among Brazilian Children: Stagnation and Process over a Ten-Year Period - 2002

Explaining Race and Ethnic Disparities in Birthweight in Chicago Neighborhoods - 2002

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia - 2002

The Dangers of Smoke Haze: Mortality in Malaysia from Indonesian Forest Fires - 2002

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Under-Five Mortality: Evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991 - 2002

Urbanization, Development and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991 - 2002

Military Recruiting: Trends, Outlooks, and Implications - 2001

The Importance of International Demographic Research for the United States - 2001

The Quality of Retrospective Data: An Examination of Long-Term Recall in a Developing Country - 2001

Why the United States Should Fund International Demographic Research - 2001

California Health Report - 2000

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia - 2000

Child Survival in Developing Countries: Can Demographic and Health Surveys Help to Understand the Determinants? - 1999

The Importance of International Demographic Research for the United States - 1999

A nested frailty model for survival data, with an application to the study of child survival in Northeast Brazil - 1998

Background and Study Design Report for Policy Evaluation of the Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation on SSI Benefits for Disabled Children - 1998

Community characteristics, individual and household attributes, and child survival in Brazil - 1998

Family level clustering of childhood mortality risk in Northeast Brazil - 1998

The Los Angeles Study of Families and Communities - 1998

What explains rural-urban differentials in child mortality in Brazil? - 1998

Military Recruiting Outlook: Recent Trends in Enlistment Propensity and Conversion of Potential Enlisted Supply - 1996

A Cost Analysis of Decentralized Basic Education in El Salvador - 1995

A Multilevel Hazards Model for Hierarchically Clustered Data: Model Estimation and an Application to the Study of Child Survival in Northeast Brazil - 1995