Special Edition | Vol. 42, No. 8

Congratulations to ICPSR Research Paper Competition Winners for 2022!

Letter from the Director

ICPSR is excited to announce the winners of our 2022 Research Paper Competitions!

Simran Sethi Khanna (Sociology), of Princeton University, earned First Place in the Undergraduate Competition with a paper titled “Determining LGB Perceptions of and Trust in the Medical Establishment.” The paper uses data from Project STRIDE: Stress, Identity, and Mental Health, New York City, 2004-2005 (ICPSR 35525).

Madeline Smith-Johnson, (Sociology) of Rice University, earned First Place in the Master’s Competition with a paper titled “Does (Trans)Gender Identity Complicate the Relationship between Education and Self-Rated Health?” The paper uses data from TransPop, United States, 2016-2018 (ICPSR 37938).

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who submitted an entry or spread the word about the competitions! Please read on for information about the competitions for 2023.

Sincerely,

Margaret C. Levenstein
Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Undergraduate Competition

First Place, Undergraduate, Simran Sethi Khanna, Princeton University

Simran Sethi Khanna (Princeton University)
Paper Title: Determining LGB Perceptions of and Trust in the Medical Establishment

Abstract: This paper explores how individuals of varying sexual orientations hold different levels of trust in the medical establishment, as well as the health and identity-based effects of this phenomenon. Disclosure of sexuality to physicians is used as a proxy for trust. Linear regression analysis reveals that nondisclosure rates are three-fold higher within the bisexual community. We also find that dominance of LGB identity is directly related while degree of internalized homophobia is inversely related to disclosure. Finally, being out to one’s doctor corresponds with clinical and identity-based benefits one year later. Clinical benefits include better psychological well-being, better mental health status, and lower depressive symptoms. Identity-based benefits include increased salience of LGB identity and lowered levels of internalized homophobia, both of which support our hypothesis that disclosure helps alleviate internal identity conflict. Doctors thus seem to play a more holistic role in patients’ lives that transcends the purely clinical.

Master's Competition

First Place, Master's, Madeline Smith-Johnson, Rice University

Madeline Smith-Johnson (Rice University)
Paper Title: Does (Trans)Gender Identity Complicate the Relationship between Education and Self-Rated Health?

Abstract: Education’s association with health differs by social positions such as gender, but research has yet to examine the effect of gender minority status. This study asks how transgender individuals compare to cisgender counterparts in the association between education and self-rated health. Deploying perspectives of multiple disadvantaged statuses, I expand current debates of education as a resource substitution or multiplication to include gender minority subgroups. I use data from the TransPop Survey, which offers information on education and health for transgender and cisgender individuals (N=1,411). In contrast to results for ciswomen, I find no evidence of resource substitution for any gender minority. I find substantial subgroup heterogeneity among gender minorities. Transmen and transwomen exhibit no educational gradient in health and education is less health-protective for nonbinary individuals, even at the highest levels of education. Findings suggest that sexism and cissexism combine to yield diverse configurations of inequality.

Enter ICPSR's Research Paper Competition for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Now accepting entries for 2023!

The 2023 ICPSR Research Paper Competitions for Undergraduates and Graduate Students is accepting entries. 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 website and in a special edition of the ICPSR Bulletin for the first place winners. See the competition website for details. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2023.

About the ICPSR Paper Competitions

The ICPSR Research Paper Competition accepts entries of papers for analyses on any topic using data from ICPSR. The purpose of the competitions is to highlight exemplary research papers based on quantitative analysis that uses ICPSR data. We invite submissions from students and recent graduates at ICPSR member institutions.

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