Demography

Age, period, and cohort differences

Faculty Associates who have current or recent work in this area:

Current projects:
“Generations as Social Groups” (Carlson). This project examines generational shifts and contrasts in educational attainment, family formation, military service, labor force participation, and adaptation to retirement and aging.

Family demography

Faculty Associates who have current or recent work in this area:

Current projects:
“Pathways to Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men” (Brewster, Tillman). This project uses cross-sectional and longitudinal data to describe the demographic characteristics of lesbians and gay men who are parents and identify the diverse pathways to parenthood among sexual minorities.

“Italian Householder Deficit” (Carlson). This project addresses the deficit of household heads among young Italians, using data from the Italian and French IPUMS. Household headship is considered a dimension of adulthood and analyses address the articulation between headship and other role adult role transitions during the third decade of life.

Fertility

Faculty Associates who have current or recent work in this area:

Current projects:
“Bayesian Forecasting of Cohort Fertility” (Schmertmann with Emilio Zagheni, Joshua Goldstein, Mikko Myrskylä).

“Forecasting Cohort Childlessness” (Schmertmann with Emilio Zagheni, Joshua Goldstein, Mikko Myrskylä)

Immigrant adaptation

Faculty Associates who have current or recent work in this area:

Current projects:
“Family, Community, and Adaptation among Immigrant Youth” (Tillman). This project uses data from the Add Health Study to examine the roles of family structure and functioning and community environments in bolstering the academic and behavioral outcomes of young immigrants.

Mortality differences and multiple causes of death

Faculty Associates who have current or recent work in this area:

Current projects:
“Analyzing mortality differentials by multiple causes of death” (Eberstein, Nam). This research considers how information on multiple causes of death lIsaac diabetes and hypertension can refine our understanding of age, sex, and race/ ethnic differentials in underlying causes of death lIsaac heart disease and cancer. Analyses employ US data from the National Health Interview Survey 1997-2004 linked with the National Death Index through 2006.

Statistical demography

Faculty Associates who have current or recent work in this area:

Current projects:
“Small-area estimates from the American Community Survey” (Schmertmann)