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MDEMFAMDEM: Family Analysts Meeting to Discuss Emerging Manuscripts

FAMDEM, originated in Fall 2008, is a friendly, informal group for students, faculty, and postdocs to present early results from (and get feedback on) their research on Family Demography. Families are central to many social processes at the macro and micro levels. Marriage and childcare continue to be highly gendered, with implications for stratification in the workplace. Changes in work and social policy over the past century have had profound implications for social expectations about marriage, fertility, and intergenerational relationships. Families continue to link the opportunities of children to those of their parents and thus families are still central to (re)production of the next generation. These are some of the topics of research FAMDEM members discuss at meetings.

We meet from 1-2 Wednesdays in CLA 2.706 (PRC Conference room)

FAMDEM Particpants: If you want to present send an email to kelly.raley@austin.utexas.edu

Upcoming presentations. 

August 21.

Recent presentations

       June 12.  Shannon Cavanagh. "The Sibship Penalty and Health: Findings from a Comparative Analysis." (informal)

        May 15. Jennifer Glass. "Estimates of U.S. Mothers’ Lifetime Risk of Becoming a Primary Breadwinner" (informal)

April 17.  Christina Caramanis. "Child Care Choices and Academic Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Socio-Demographic Structure." Discussant: Haley Stritzel

March 27. Rachel Donnelly. "Precarious Work and Marital Dissolution among Mid- and Later-Life Adults."  

March 27. Hyungmin Cha. "Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Life Course Dynamics, and Sexual Efficacy During the Transition to Adulthood" 

February 6. Inbar Weiss and Carolina Aragão "Assimilation and Household Instability among Children in Immigrant Families."

January 30. Kelly Musick. “Occupational Inflexibility and Women’s Employment During the Transition to Parenthood” Discussant: Aida Villanueva

January 23. Shih-Yi Chao "Gender Inequality in Housework and Heterosexual Unions in the 2000s" Discussant: Joanna Pepin

December 12. Michelle Eilers and Abigail Weitzman. “Young Women’s Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use Amidst Conflicting Desires and Morals” 

November 14. Joanna Pepin. "Cross-national Differences in Married and Cohabiting Couples' Approaches to Income Organization." Discussant: Alicia Duncombe 

October 31. Haley Stritzel "Predictors of Family Preservation Over Time: Evidence from the NLSY79 and NLSY97" Discussant: Rob Crosnoe.

October 17. Isabel McLoughlin & Abigail Weitzman. "Religiosity, Anticipated Guilt, and Contraceptive Workarounds: New Evidence from a Longitudinal Panel of Young Adult Women." Discussant: Aida Villanueva

October 3. Liz Ackert. "Lonely Only Children? Time-use Patterns among Adolescent Children With and Without Siblings" Discussant: Kelly Raley

September 19. M. Carolina Aragao and Aida Villanueva. "Household composition and mother's work outcomes in Peru and Brazil." Discussant: Abigail Weitzman

September 5. Kathleen Broussard and Abigail Weitzman "Fertility Desires After Sibling Loss: Evidence from a High Mortality Context.” Discussant Isabel McLoughlin.

July 11: Abigail Weitzman "Adding Insult to Injury? The Secondary Health Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence and Women's Risk of Non-Communicable Disease"  

May 23: Kelly Raley "Estimating Children’s Household Instability between Birth and Age 16 Using Longitudinal Household Roster Data (SIPP)"

April 18: Carol Johnston. "Pathways of Partnership and Parenting among American Women"

April 4: Aida Villanueva and Carolina Aragao. "Girls’ Domestic and Care Work in Brazil: Educational Consequences and Connections to Mothers’ Work"

February 21: Kathleen Broussard and Abigail Weitzman. “Fertility Intentions and Ideals after Sibling Loss: Evidence from a High-Mortality Context.” Discussant: Michelle Eilers

January 24: Aashish Gupta and Diane Coffey. “Social disadvantage and mental health: A developing country perspective.” Discussant: Yiwen Wang