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Full CV

Education:

1961  B.A., Haverford College, Haverford, PA

1967  Ph. D., Columbia University, New York, NY

Research:

• Family Sociology
• Demography
• Urban Sociology
• Gender Studies
• Sociology of Education
• Children, Youth and Public Policy

Selected Publications:

2004 Values, policy and the family. Chapter in Future of the family. Edited by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2005 Can marriage be saved? Spring 2005. Dissent 73-77.

2005 Banking on families: How families generate and distribute social capital. Journal of Marriage and Family 65:4:809-821.

2006 Growing up healthy? Are adolescents the right target group? Journal of Adolescent Health 39(3):303-304.

2006 The prevalence and correlates of multipartnered fertility among urban U.S. parents, with Marcy Carlson. Journal of Marriage and Family 68:3:718-732.

2006 Non-normative life course transitions: Reflections on the significance of demographic events on lives. Pp. 159-176 In Advances in life course research: Vol. 10,

2006 Towards an interdisciplinary perspective on the life course, Rene Levy, Paolo Ghisletta, Jean-Marie LeGoff, and Dario Spini (Eds.). London: Elsevier Science, Ltd.
Keynote address: Vulnerable youth and the transition to adulthood. Temple Law Review, 79:2:325-335.

2007 The making of the black family: Race and class in qualitative studies in the 10th century. Annual Review of Sociology 33:429-448.

2007 Entry into adulthood: Are adult role transitions meaningful markers of adult identity? with Janel Benson. In Constructing adulthood: Agency and subjectivity in adolescence and adulthood, pp. 199-214, Advances in life course research, vol. 11. Ross MacMillan (Ed.). London: Elsevier Science, Ltd.

2007 Multipartnered fertility among young women with a nonmarital first birth: Prevalence and risk factors, with Karen Benjamin Guzzo. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 3991):29-38.

2007 Encouraging education in an urban school district: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study, with David Neumark. Education Economics 15(2):135-157.

Forthcoming Is 30 the new 20? Trends in the age distribution of problem behaviors in young adulthood, with Sarah Hayford. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

2007 Point/Counterpoint: Should government promote marriage? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26:4:950-957.

2007 Multipartnered fertility among American men, with Karen Benjamin Guzzo. Demography, 44:3:583-601.

2007 Teenage mothers in later life (and the researchers who study them). Contexts, 6:3:78-79.

2007 Changes in the transition to adulthood in less developed countries with Monica J. Grant. European Journal of Population 23:415-428.

Forthcoming Social class and the transition to adulthood. Chapter to appear in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. Special issue, “Social Class and Transition to Adulthood,” edited by Jeylan Mortimer. Volume 119 Spring 2008.

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