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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2020 Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey
Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center - 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 - Peggy Giordano
Campus Sexual Misconduct: Using Perpetrator Risk Mechanisms Underlying Desistance from Crime: Individual and Social Pathways
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- Stinson. Criminology Explains Police Violence.
- Cook, Leung, Smith. “Marijuana Decriminalization, Medical Marijuana Laws, and Fatal Traffic Crashes in U.S. Cities, 2010–2017.” American Journal of Public Health.
- Colburn, Pratt, Mueller,Tompsett. "How Adolescents Define Their Home Neighborhoods Conceptually and Spatially." Journal of Community Psychology.
- Giordano, Copp, Manning, Longmore. “When Worlds Collide: Involvement with Friends and Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood.” Social Forces.
- Kao, Joyner, Balistreri. The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood. Russell Sage Foundation.