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I am currently involved in three research projects. With Matthew McKeever (Mount Holyoke College) I am studying trends in the economic well-being of divorced women. Mary Ann Mason, Marc Goulden (both at the University of California, Berkeley) and I are studying the effects of children on women’s academic careers. W. Bradford Wilcox (University of Virginia) and I are investigating the relationship between religious participation, marriage, and well-being.
Much of my previous research examined the intergenerational transmission of divorce--why people from divorced families are likely to end their own marriages. Articles based on this work have been published in Demography, Journal of Family Issues, Social Forces, and Social Science Research; a book, Understanding the Divorce Cycle, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.
Most of my work involves multivariate analysis of data from national sample surveys. I also use ethnographic methods. |
