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William Axinn
Affiliated Programs:
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (NCHS)
Population and Ecology Research Laboratory (PERL)
Funded Research:
Armed Conflict, Family Change and Mental Health (Freedman)
Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes (NICHD)
Electronic Journal Data Collection Technologies for Interdisciplinary Research (NIDA)
Ideational Influences on Marriage and Childbearing (NICHD)
Intergenerational Influences on Family Formation in a Changing Social Context (NICHD)
Marital Processes, Husband-Wife Relationships, and Fertility Behaviors (NICHD)
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (CDC)
Reciprocal Relations Between Population and Environment (NICHD)
Young Women's Relationships, Contraception, and Unintended Pregnancy (NICHD)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Director, Survey Research Center, ISR.
Professor, Sociology.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Axinn studies the relationships among social change, family organization, intergenerational relationships, marriage, cohabitation and fertility in the United States and Nepal. His research also includes the development of new methods for collecting social science data. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.
Recent Publications
Books
Jayakody, Rukmalie, Arland Thornton, and William Axinn. (Eds). 2008. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. Abstract.
Thornton, Arland, William Axinn, and Yu Xie. 2007. Marriage and Cohabitation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Axinn, William, and Lisa D. Pearce. 2006. Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies. New York : Cambridge University Press. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Axinn, William, Dirgha Ghimire, and Nathalie Williams. Forthcoming. "Collecting Survey Data during Armed Conflict." Journal of Official Statistics. NIHMSID: NIHMS351965.
Gatny, Heather, and William Axinn. Forthcoming. "Willingness to Participate in Research during Pregnancy: Race, Experience, and Motivation." Field Methods. NIHMSID: NIHMS347681. DOI.
Ghimire, Dirgha, Stephanie Chardoul, Ronald Kessler, William Axinn, and Bishnu Adhikari. Forthcoming. "Modifying and Validating the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) for Use in Nepal." International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS352538.
Axinn, William, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Meeso Caponi Ro. 2011. "Gender double standards in parenting attitudes." Social Science Research, 40(2): 417-432. PMCID: PMC3035381. DOI. Abstract.
Axinn, William, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2011. "Social Organization, Population, and Land Use." American Journal of Sociology, 117(1): 209-258. PMCID: PMC3162250. DOI.
Axinn, William, Cynthia F. Link, and Robert M. Groves. 2011. "Responsive Survey Design, Demographic Data Collection, and Models of Demographic Behavior." Demography, 48(3): 1127-1149. DOI.
Brauner-Otto, Sarah, and William Axinn. 2010. "Parental family experiences, the timing of first sex, and contraception." Social Science Research, 39(6): 875-893. PMCID: PMC2978908. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.