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Danziger discusses use of IRS data in trend analyses of income distribution
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Research Professor position in international family demography, PSC/SRC
Pamela Smock elected president of the Association of Population Centers
Elisha Renne awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for African studies
Bob Groves leaving Census Bureau for Georgetown University
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Lisa Neidert
Affiliated Programs:
Michigan Historical Demography Workshop
Funded Research:
Census 2010 Data Boot Camp for Journalists (McCormick Foundation)
Senior Research Associate, Population Studies Center.
Lecturer, Sociology.
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Dr. Neidert’s research interests are the association between ideational change and marriage and family formation behaviors; spatial analysis; social stratification; and health disparities. Associated with her position in Data Services, she is interested in data quality, confidentiality, data access and user interfaces to data. She teaches a course in quantitative reasoning.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and Lisa Neidert. 2009. "US Presidential Elections and the Spatial Pattern of the American Second Demographic Transition." Population and Development Review, 35(2), 391-400. DOI. Abstract.
Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and Lisa Neidert. 2008. "Voting and Families: America's Second Demographic Transition." New Geography, December 11.