Center for Family and Demographic Research
The Center for Family and Demographic Research is a proud affiliate of BGSU's campus and community.
Center for Family & Demographic Research
The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) is an NIH-funded population research center dedicated to research, training, and service in demography. The CFDR integrates demographic methods, data, and perspectives with other social scientific approaches to understand the well-being of children and families. A special focus of research by CFDR affiliates addresses the public health and social problems facing at-risk children, adolescents, and families.
The Center for Family and Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University has core funding from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (P2CHD050959).
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CFDR Grants
- Kelly Balistreri
2020 Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey
Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center - Peggy Giordano
RAPID: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Predictors and Consequences of Compliance with Social Distancing Recommendations
National Science Foundation
- Susan Brown and I-Fen Lin
Health and Well-being Effects on Later-life Divorce and Subsequent Repartnering
National Institute on Aging - Eric Dubow
Exposure to Violence and Subsequent Weapons Use: Mediating and Moderating Processes
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
New Publications
- Cooper, Longmore, Manning, Giordano. “The Influence of Demographic, Relational, and Risk Asymmetries on the Frequency of Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood.” Journal of Family Issues.
- Ma, Yahirun, Saenz, & Sheehan. “Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico.” Demography.
- Guzzo, Lang, Hayford. “Do Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Attitudes and Knowledge Predict Men and Women’s Adult Sexual Partnerships?” Journal of Adolescent Health.
- Manning, Smock, Kuperberg. “Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: A Comment on Rosenfeld and Roesler (2019).” Journal of Marriage and Family.
- Brown, Lin, Mellencamp. "Does the Transition to Grandparenthood Deter Gray Divorce? A Test of the Braking Hypothesis." Social Forces.