Stafford, Schoeni, and Chen find many Americans making little headway against debt
Wightman and Schoeni find most young adults helped financially by parents
Johnston says decline in perceived risk contributes to rise in marijuana use among teens
Patrick calls increase in newborns undergoing drug withdrawal a public health epidemic
Danziger discusses use of IRS data in trend analyses of income distribution
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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National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (Groves)
Survey Research Center (SRC) (Groves)
Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes (Thornton)
Integrated Fertility Surveys Series (IFSS) (Smock)
Young Women's Relationships, Contraception, and Unintended Pregnancy (Barber)
Ideational Influences on Marriage and Childbearing (Thornton)
Study of Muslim Families in Gansu, China (Xie)
The Role of Violence in the Processes Leading to Unintended Pregnancy (Barber)
Characterizing Young Women’s Relationship Experiences (Kusunoki)
Integrating U.S. Fertility Surveys (Smock)
Collaborative Research: Divorce and the Political Gender Gap (Arunachalam)
Marital Processes, Husband-Wife Relationships, and Fertility Behaviors (Ghimire)
Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal, Abbas Askari-Nodoushan, and Arland Thornton. Forthcoming. "Family Life and Developmental Idealism in Yazd, Iran." Demographic Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS366411.
Estrada-Martínez, L.M., Mark Padilla, C.H. Caldwell, and A.J. Schulz. 2011. "Examining the Influence of Family Environments on Youth Violence: A Comparison of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, non-Latino Black, and non-Latino White Adolescents." Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40(8): 1039-1051.
Huang, Penelope M., Pamela Smock, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, and Wendy Manning. 2011. "He Says, She Says': Gender and Cohabitation." Journal of Family Issues, 32(7): 876–905. PMCID: PMC3106995.
Arunachalam, Raj, and M. Shah. 2008. "Prostitutes and brides?" American Economic Review, 98(2): 516-522.
Sastry, Narayan, B. Ghosh-Dastidar, J. Adams, and A.R. Pebley. 2006. "The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study." Social Science Research, 35(4): 1000-1024.
Manning, Wendy, Pamela Smock, and Cava Bergstrom-Lynch. 2009. "Cohabitation and Parenthood: Lessons from Focus Groups and In-Depth Interviews." In Marriage and family: perspectives and complexities edited by H. Elizabeth Peters and Claire M. Kamp Dush. New York: Columbia University Press.
Thornton, Arland. 2009. "Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Marriage." In Marriage and family: perspectives and complexities edited by H. Elizabeth Peters and Claire M. Kamp Dush. New York: Columbia University Press.
Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2008. "International dissemination of ideas about development and family change." In International Family Change: ideational perspectives edited by Rukmalie Jayakody, Arland Thornton, William G Axinn. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Jayakody, Rukmalie, Arland Thornton, and William Axinn. 2008. "Perspectives on international family change." In International Family Change: ideational perspectives edited by Rukmalie Jayakody; Arland Thornton; William G Axinn. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Axinn, William, Amie Emens, and Colter Mitchell. 2008. "Ideational influences on family change in the United States." In International Family Change: ideational perspectives edited by Rukmalie Jayakody; Arland Thornton; William G Axinn. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Axinn, William, Dirgha Ghimire, and Jennifer S. Barber. 2008. "The influence of ideational dimensions of social change on family formation in Nepal." In International Family Change: ideational perspectives edited by Rukmalie Jayakody; Arland Thornton; William G Axinn. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Pebley, Anne R., and Narayan Sastry. 2007. "Neighborhoods, poverty, and children's well-being." In The inequality reader : contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender edited by David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelényi. 165-178. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press.
Pienta, Amy M., and Melissa M. Franks. 2006. "A closer look at health and widowhood : do health behaviors change after the loss of a spouse?" In Spousal bereavement in late life edited by Deborah Carr, Randolph M. Nesse, Camille B. Wortman. 117-142. New York : Springer Pub. Co.
Smock, Pamela, and Mary C. Noonan. 2005. "Intersections: Gender, Work, and Family Research in the United States." In Work, Family, Health and Well-being edited by Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, and Rosalind Berkowitz King. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Arunachalam, Raj, and Trevon Logan. 2008. "Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?" NBER Working Paper No. 13905.
Arunachalam, Raj, and Trevon D. Logan. 2006. "On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives." NBER Working Paper No. 12630.