Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation

Investigator:   Pamela Smock

The parent project will review existing knowledge on family and fertility change and on variation in family attitudes and behavior between women and men and among members of different race/ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural groups. They will use the reviews to identify areas in which important progress can be made through new analyses, data collection, and methodologies. They will explore new ways to use existing data and new methods for studying family and fertility change to advance understanding of causal relationships. Commissioned papers and pilot projects will inform recommendations for future research and data collection on family and fertility change. The project identifies four areas for intensive study through a coordinated set of working groups with intersecting memberships and synchronized work schedules. To advance scientific understanding of family change, we adopt a strategy of routine and open consultation with researchers in multiple disciplines.

Smock (along with Lynne Casper at USC) will play a primary role in overseeing, facilitating, and producing a book manuscript representing the work of the project’s unions subgroup. She will be responsible for providing feedback to chapter authors, reviewing revised chapters, co-authoring an Introductory chapter, co-authoring a closing chapter summarizing recommendations for future research and data collection, and finding an appropriate publisher for the manuscript.

Funding Period: 01/01/2007 to 09/29/2007


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