Graduate Research Assistants

Current Students

Family Profiles

• FP-21-10
  First Divorce Rate in the U.S., 2019
  
• FP-21-09
  First Marriage Rate in the U.S., 2019
  
• FP-20-26
  Marriage-to-Divorce Ratio in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2019
• FP-20-25
  Divorce Rate in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2019
  
• FP-20-24
  Marriage Rate in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2019
• FP-20-20
  Ten Years of Change in Remarriage
• FP-20-12
  Age Variation in Cohabitation, 2018

Conference Presentation

• #PAA2021
  • Distress in Cohabitation: On the Relevance of Definite Plans to Marry for Psychological Well-Being
    

Former Students

*Most visited document on the NCFMR website in 2016, 2017, and 2018!
**Featured in Bloomberg
**Research appeared in The Huffington Post, The Blade, and the Indiana Gazette.

Family Profiles

• FP-17-19
  

Conference Presentations

• #PAA2021
  • Children of Immigrants and Entry into Marriage
  • Assortative Mating, Immigration, Marriage Timing

• #PAA2018
  • Cohabitation and Contraceptive Use in the United States: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity
    

• #ASA18
  • Growing Up in America: Children of Immigrants and Nonmarital Fertility

Workshop Presentations

• Add Health Working Group Meeting
  • Growing Up in America: Children of Immigrants & Nonmarital Fertility

Family Profiles

• FP-21-16
  Age Variation in the Divorce Rate, 1990 & 2019
  
• FP-21-07
  Grandchildren Living in Grandparent-Headed Households, 2019
  
• FP-21-06
  Homogamy in U.S. Marriages, 2019
• FP-21-05
  Median Age at Last Birth
  
• FP-21-04
  Trends in Cohabitation Prior to Marriage
  
• FP-20-29
  Marriage in the U.S.: Twenty-five Years of Change, 1995-2020
  
• FP-20-28
  Stepfamilies in First Marriages
  
• FP-20-23
  Widowhood: Decades of Change, 1940-2018
  
• FP-20-14
  Fatherhood in the U.S.: The Decoupling of Marriage and Childbearing
• FP-20-05
  Age at Entry into Motherhood and Mothers’ Sociodemographic Characteristics, 2015-2018  

Conference Presentations

• #PAA2021
  • Birth Spacing, Age at First Child, and Education: What Roles Do They Play in Working Mothers’ Within-Organization Career Paths?
    

Family Profiles

Conference Presentations

• #PAA2019
  • Income Pooling, as Investment and Adaptive Strategy Among Young Adults
    

2019 Poster Award Recipient

• #PAA2018
  • Income Pooling in Partnerships with Children: The Roles of Resident and Nonresident Stepchildren
• #PAA2017 
  • What's Mine Is Ours? Income Pooling in Complex Families  
• PAA 2016
  
  • Serial Cohabitation: Baby Boomers to Millennials
    

Works Cited in Recent Publications

• “Family, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Post-Traditional Society,” by Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel (FP-16-10)
• "Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society,” by Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann, and Susan D. Stewart (FP-15-18 and FP-15-12)

Working Papers

• 2013-12
  • Published in Contraceptives: Predictors of Use, Role of Cultural Attitudes & Practices and Levels of Effectiveness, edited by Louis Bourgois and Samuel Cauchois. (2013). Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Publications

• Gibbs, Larry. (2013). “Gender, Relationship Type and Contraceptive Use at First Intercourse.” Contraception, 87(6):806-812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2012.09.030

Conference Presentations

• Fathers & Fathering in Contemporary Contexts
• Counting Couples, Counting Families
• PAA Annual Meeting 2014
  
• PAA Annual Meeting 2012
  

Works Cited in Recent Publications

• Nijole V. Benokraitis, SOC 3, 3rd Edition (p. 229). ISBN-13: 978-1-133-93913-9. (FP-11-13)

Working Papers

• WP-10-01
  • Published in Social Science Research, 39(5), September 2010, 777-786. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.04.010

Outstanding Author Contributions -- 2015 Emerald Literati Network

Tetsushi Fujimoto , Sayaka K. Shinohara, Tsuyoshi Oohira (2014). "Work–Family Conflict and Depression for Employed Husbands and Wives in Japan: Moderating Roles of Self and Spousal Role Involvement," in Jennifer Higgins McCormick, Sampson Lee Blair (ed.) Family Relationships and Familial Responses to Health Issues (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Volume 8A) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.135 - 162. doi:10.1108/S1530-35352014000008A004

Family Profiles

Ohio Population News

• Ohio's Newborns, 2013-2017

• Food Insufficiency Among Ohio's Children, 2016-2017

Working Papers

• WP-14-02
  • Published in Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Structure and Child Well-being: Integrating Family Complexity, 77(1): 177-190 (February 2015).
• 2014-03
• WP-12-11
• Named as "Editor's Choice" in Demographic Research.
  • Nonresident Fathers and Formal Child Support: Evidence from the CPS, NSFG, and SIPP, 29(46) 1299-1330, December 13, 2013, DOI.4054/DemRes.2013.29.46

Conference Presentations

• PAA Annual Meeting 2016
  • Poster Award Recipient
    
• Fathers & Fathering in Contemporary Contexts
• Counting Couples, Counting Families
• PAA Annual Meeting 2013
• PAA Annual Meeting 2012

Family Profiles

Conference Presentations

• #PAA2018
  • Older Adults Who Live Apart Together (LAT): A Comparison of Dating, LAT, Cohabitation, Remarriage, and First Marriage

LAT research featured in national media outlets!

• #PAA2017
  
  • The “Distal Determinants” of Fertility: Identifying Underlying Constructs and Examining Race-Ethnic Variation

Conference Posters & Papers

• PAA Annual Meeting 2016 Poster
  
  • Poster Award Recipient
    
• PAA Annual Meeting 2015
  • Poster