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FAMDEM: 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 RLP 2.706 (PRC Conference room) via zoom.

If you would like to join FAMDEM or if you are a member who would like to present send an email to kelly.raley@austin.utexas.edu

Upcoming presentations.    

      September 15 – Kim McErlean (informal presentation)

      September 29 – Inbar Weiss (informal presentation) "The Social Determinants of Transnational Marriage: Ethnic Cohesion, Global Economic Inequality, or Gender Norm?"

      October 13 - Jordan Conwell formal presentation "Women's Household Income Returns to College Quality: Racial Disparities Across Two Cohorts" student discussant Carolina Aragao.

      October 27 – Abigail Weitzman. informal presentation. 

      November 10 - TBA

      December 8 - Christina Caramanis "Marriage and Workforce participation in the NLS-72"

Recent presentations

        April 7 – "Excess neonatal mortality among private facility births in rural India: a demographic analysis of a nationally representative survey" by Diane Coffey. Discussant: Shannon Cavanagh

        March 24 – "Unraveling Mate Selection Processes Through Conjoint Survey Experiments" by Kara Joyner

        March 10 – “Patterns of Household Extension and Instability: Evidence of Family Institutionalization?” presented by Kelly Raley. Discussant: Kathryn Wiley.

        March 3 –  "Transnational marriages: A test of competing explanations" by Inbar Weiss. Discussant: Jeffrey Swindle

        February 3 – Responding to an R&R by Diane Coffey

November 11. "World Culture on the Ground: Varied Effects of Gender Violence Campaigns" by Jeffrey Swindle. Discussant: Isabel McLoughlin Brooks.

October 28. “Gender and Children’s Racial Classification in Interracial Families” by Carolina Aragao. Discussant: Michael Garcia.

October 14. “Neighborhood Homicides and Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Couples” by Abigail Weitzman, Michelle Eilers, and Allen Mallory. Discussant: Diane Coffey.

September 30.  "Gender norms, sexual scripts, and emotional responses to sexual encounters in young adulthood: A survey vignette experiment" by Michelle Eilers

September 16.  “A Research Note on Divorce Rates in the New Millennium” by Kimberly McErlean. Discussant: Inbar Weiss

Select Publications

        Coffey, Diane, Payal Hathi, Nazar Khalid, and Amit Thorat. forthcoming. “Measurement of population mental health: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India.” Health Policy & Planning.

        Gupta, Aashish and Diane Coffey.

2020.

“Caste, religion, and mental health in India

.” Population Research

& Policy Review. 39, 1119–1141.

Broussard, Kathleen and Abigail Weitzman. forthcoming. “Fertility Ideals and Sibling Loss: Evidence from the High Mortality Context of Peru.” Population Studies. 

Dernberger, Brittany N. and Joanna R. Pepin. 2020. Young Adults’ Expectations of the Division of Labor in their Future Families. Sociological Science. doi: 10.15195/v7.a2

Wikle, Jocelyn S., Elizabeth Ackert, and Alexander C. Jensen. 2019. "Companionship Patterns and Emotional States During Social Interactions for Adolescents With and Without Siblings. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48: 2190-2206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01121-z 

Coffey, Diane and Dean Spears. Forthcoming. "Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition."   The Economic Journal.    

Villanueva, Aida and Ken-Hou Lin.  Conditionally accepted. “Motherhood Wage Penalties in Latin America: The Significance of Labor Informality”.  Social Forces

Raley, R. Kelly, Inbar Weiss, Robert Reynolds, Shannon Cavanagh. 2019. "Estimating Children's Household Instability from Birth until Age 18 using Longitudinal Household Roster Data.” Demography , 56(5): 1957-1973. 10.1007/s13524-019-00806-1.

Rachel Donnelly, Debra Umberson, and Tetyana Pudrovska. 2018. "Family Member Death and Subjective Life Expectancy Among Black and White Older Adults." Journal of Aging & Health 

Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Ressler, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe. 2018. "Maternal Employment, Community Contexts, and the Child-Care Arrangements of Diverse Groups." Journal of Marriage and Family 80:1210-1224. 

Yahirun, Jenjira and Erika Arenas. 2018. "Offspring Migration and Parents' Emotional and Psychological Well-being in Mexico." Journal of Marriage and Family

Cobb, J. Adam and Ken-Hou Lin. 2017. “Growing Apart: The Declining Firm-Size Wage Effect and Its Wage Inequality Consequence.” Organization Science 28: 429-446.

Ansari, Arya, et al.. 2017. "Differential Third-Grade Outcomes Associated with Attending Publicly Funded Preschool Programs for Low Income Latino Children." Child Development 88: 1743-1756

Olson, Julie Skalamera and Robert Crosnoe. 2017. “Are You Still Bringing Me Down? Romantic Involvement and Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Young Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior .

Frisco, Michelle, Marin R. Wenger, and Derek A. Kreager. 2017. "Extradyadic sex and union dissolution among young adults in opposite-sex married and cohabiting unions." Social Science Research. 62: 291-304.

Kuo, Janet Chen-Lan and R. Kelly Raley. 2016. “Is it All about Money? Work Characteristics and Women’s and Men’s Marriage Formation in Early Adulthood.” Journal of Family Issues. 37:1046-1073 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14530973

Kim, Yujin and R. Kelly Raley. 2015. “Race-Ethnic Differences in the Non-marital Fertility Rates in 2006–2010. Population Research and Policy Review. 34(1): 141-159. DOI: 10.1007/s11113-014-9342-9

Augustine, Jennifer March and R. Kelly Raley. April 2013. “Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers.” Journal of Family Issues 34(4): 431-459. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X12439177

Raley, R. Kelly, Kim, Yujin, and Kimberly Daniels. 2012. “Young adults' fertility expectations and events, Associations with college enrollment and persistence.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 74: 866-879. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00990.x

McNamee, Catherine M. and R. Kelly Raley. 2011. “A Note on Race, Ethnicity and Nativity Differentials in Remarriage in the United States.” Demographic Research. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.13

Uecker, Jeremy E and Mark D. Regnerus. 2010. Bare Market: Campus Sex Ratios, Romantic Relationships, and Sexual Behavior. The Sociological Quarterly 51: 408-435