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Research Interests |
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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. |
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Representative Publications |
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2009. "'Stay in the Game': Gender, Family Formation, and Alternative Trajectories in the Academic Life Course." Social Forces 87:1591-1621 (with M. A. Mason and M. Goulden).
2009. "Thanks for Nothing: Changes in Income and Labor Force Participation for Never-Married Mothers since 1982." Revise & resubmit, Social Science Research (with M. McKeever).
2008. "Family Structure and Voter Turnout." Social Forces 86:1513-1528 (with R. E. Wolfinger).
2008. Happily Ever After? Religion, Marital Status, Gender, and Relationship Quality in Urban Families." Social Forces 86:1311-1337 (with W. B. Wilcox).
2005. Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages. Cambridge University Press.
2005. Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda. Springer (edited, with L. Kowaleski-Jones). |
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Teaching Interests |
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My teaching interests include courses on the family, divorce and remarriage, and research methods. |
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Courses Taught |
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FCS 2400 - Family Relations across the Life Course
FCS 5280 - Divorce & Remarriage
FCS 5962 - Fragile Families
FCS 6110 - Graduate Multivariate Statistics |
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