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Families, Fertility, and Children

Since 1955, when the Center's founder, Ronald Freedman, directed the first national survey of fertility behavior in the U.S. (the Growth of American Families Study), Michigan established itself as a demographic research center devoted to the study of fertility and the family via the collection of primary data. Today our researchers continue this tradition. They have been instrumental in creating large-scale data collections such as the Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children, the National Survey of Gamily Growth, and the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. And they have led the field in the analysis of national and international data in the research areas listed below.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

A Post-Crisis Analysis of the Attitudes and Value Orientations of the Islamic Publics in Egypt, Iran, and Morocco (Moaddel)

An In-depth Analysis of the Worldviews of Egyptians (Moaddel)

Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (Willis)

Birth to Three Programming to Improve School Readiness (Featherman)

Cape Area Panel Study (Lam)

Characterizing Young Women’s Relationship Experiences (Kusunoki)

Children in Transition to Adulthood: Family and Siblings Connections (Sastry)

Collaborative Research: Divorce and the Political Gender Gap (Arunachalam)

Creating a Lifecourse Panel From Birth to Early Adulthood (Sastry)

Cross-national Variations and Trends in Islamic Fundamentalism (Thornton)

Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes (Thornton)

Developmental Idealism Studies (Thornton)

Exploring the Determinants of Changes in 20th Century North American Childbearing (Bailey)

Family Planning Programs and the Health and Fertility of US Women, 1960-1980 (Bailey)

Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa (Lam)

Ideational Influences on Marriage and Childbearing (Thornton)

In Search of a Sociopolitical Community: The Cases of Egypt, Iran, and Jordan (Moaddel)

Incentives for Life (Arunachalam)

Integrated Fertility Surveys Series (IFSS) (Smock)

Integrating U.S. Fertility Surveys (Smock)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (Gutmann)

Intergenerational Influences on Family Formation in a Changing Social Context (Axinn)

Marital Processes, Husband-Wife Relationships, and Fertility Behaviors (Ghimire)

Mental Health Burden Study (Heeringa)

Mental Health Correlates and Consequences of Romantic Relationships from Adolescence through Early Adulthood

Michigan Historical Demography Workshop (Alter)

Migrants to the Gulf Cooperation Countries: Values, Behaviors, and Plans (Thornton)

Multi-Generation Family and Life History Panel Dataset (Leonard)

National Children's Study

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Stafford)

Religion and Suicidal Behavior Among Black Americans

Religion, Aging, and Mexican American Health (Krause)

Retirement Savings, Subjective Expectations and Survey Measurement (Willis)

Scaling up Male Circumcision Service Provision (Thornton)

The Effect of Economic Conditions on Young Adult Behavior

The Effects of Food Assistance Programs on Child Well-being Among Families Experiencing Job Loss, Divorce, or Separation (Danziger)

The Role of Intra-Family Financial and Other Support... (Danziger)

The Role of Violence in the Processes Leading to Unintended Pregnancy (Barber)

Transitions From Preschool Through High School: Family, Schools and Neighborhoods (Sastry)

Unconventional Safer Sex Strategies (Thornton)

Weather and Happiness (Kimball)

Widowhood, Divorce and Loss of Health Insurance Among Near Elderly Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (Coverage Research Initiative) (Weir)

Work-family Conflict, Stressful Working Conditions, and Health in the United States (Burgard)

Young Women's Relationships, Contraception, and Unintended Pregnancy (Barber)