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 News and Notes
 February 2009
 
 
 
The National Center for Marriage Research (NCMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to News and Notes, our monthly electronic newsletter.  News and Notes aims to keep you informed about the activities of the National Center for Marriage Research.  We will also announce funding and research opportunities, provide registration information for symposiums, conferences, and workshops, and keep you up to date on current research findings.
 
Call for Applications
Postdoctoral Fellowship
 
The National Center for Marriage Research seeks one postdoctoral fellow for a one-year appointment (renewable for an additional year with satisfactory progress). The fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an outstanding young scholar to perform research and receive training in residence with the NCMR at Bowling Green State University.
 
 
Logo_Web Home PageUpcoming Conference  
Families and Health:
New Directions in Research and Theory
 
June 1-2, 2009
Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
 
This conference provides a unique opportunity to examine the broad implications of family structure, processes, and policies for physical and mental health over the life course.  The six sessions will facilitate disciplinary "cross-talk" about cutting edge research and current controversies in the rapidly evolving study of families and health. Sessions include:
  1. Families, Households, and Living Arrangements
  2. Family Change and Instability
  3. Family Relationships
  4. Caring for Families: Sharing the Burden
  5. New Directions in Research Methods
  6. The Future of Families and Health Research
 
 
 
NCMR Adds Research Tools to Web Site
 
Data Connectiona collection of research tools and research findings on the health and wellbeing of children and adults, diverse family structures and communities, and healthy marriages and relationships, offers you the following miscellany on the NCMR Web site:
 
Data Points
A collection of tables and figures integrating statistics and demographic perspectives on the effects of family structure in various domains across the life span.
 
Working Paper Series   
A collection of working papers written by NCMR students, faculty affiliates, and researchers.
 
Workshop Materials
A collection of workshop materials, including PowerPoint presentations, Web casts, and Web site links, captured from NCMR workshops.
 
Research Themes
A collection of research questions that we believe are central to growing research on marriage and family structure and to improving policy effectiveness.  To further facilitate researchers' efforts while investigating the links between marriage and wellbeing at all stages of the life course, we have archived recently published journal articles and working papers that address each research theme. 
 
Recent Books
A collection of recently published books compiled to complement our six research themes (noted above), and to further facilitate researchers' investigatory efforts...coming soon.
 
Coming Soon...
Data Infrastructure 

The NCMR looks forward to providing you with data user guides and detailed programming notes for various national datasets. 
 
As a first step, we focus on measures of relationship quality across several national datasets such as the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to name a few.  We will provide key variables and sample sizes along with annotated SAS and Stata code.  We will also provide access to selected papers that have implemented key variables in research. 
 
 
 
Technical Writer and Social Science Data Analyst Join NCMR Staff 
 
 
Wadsworth helps write, edit, and design documents such as research briefs, journal articles, reports, proposals, and electronically distributed newsletters.
 
Wu works with both the NCMR and BGSU's Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR), supporting the use of social science data.  He also offers workshops addressing statistical and programming issues in analyzing such data.
 
 
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The National Center for Marriage Research, established in 2007 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to improve our understanding of how marriage and family structure affect the health and wellbeing of families, adults, children, and communities, and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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