Thomson, Elizabeth Working paper no. 2003-09 Abstract Increases in union stability and non-union childbearing during the latter half of the 20th century produced substantial increases in the prevalence of stepfamilies, most of which are formed during the partners’ childbearing years. Recent analyses of stepfamily fertility in a limited number of European countries and the United …
Campbell, Mary E., and Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck Working paper no. 2003-10 Abstract This paper uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the social and psychological well-being of multiracial adolescents. Using three different measures of multiracial identity, we investigate the ways in which these adolescents compare to their monoracial counterparts on the …
Campbell, Mary E. Working paper no. 2003-11 Abstract The “one-drop rule” has historically been used to classify individuals with any African American ancestry as black. There is reason to think, however, that this “rule” might be weakening. Using the May 1995 Current Population Survey’s Race and Ethnicity Supplement, I investigate the salience of the “one-drop …
MacLean, Alair Working paper no. 2003-12
Thomson, Elizabeth Working paper no. 2003-18
Greenfield, Emily A., and Nadine F. Marks Working paper no. 2003-20 Abstract Objectives: Guided by interactional role theory and employing a resilience framework, this study aimed to investigate whether volunteering protects older adults with more role-identity absences (partner, employment, and parent) from poorer mental health (hedonic and eudaimonic). Method: We use data from 589 participants, aged 60-74, …
Martinson, Brian, and Joan M. Griffin Working paper no. 2003-24 Abstract Work and family influence the health and health behaviors of employed adults, especially when these domains have conflicting or competing demands. The extent to which work-family conflict is a function of extrinsic factors, such as the organization of work vs. an individual’s work habits, …
Li, Jui-Chung Allen Working paper no. 2003-26 Abstract This paper compares qualitative marital fertility schedules in intact- and stepfamilies using data from the U.S. June 1995 Current Population Survey. Stepfamily is defined through demographic configuration of women’s marital parity and lifetime parity. Substantial empirical regularities in fertility schedules are identified. Marital fertility schedules are similar …
Dykema, Jennifer, and Nora Cate Schaeffer Working paper no. 2004-02
Voss, Paul, Katherine Curtis, and Roger B. Hammer Working paper no. 2004-04 Abstract This paper consists of two parts. The first reviews the historical role that space and place has played in the discipline of demography in the United States. We argue that until approximately the middle of the 20th century nearly all of demographic …