News and Notes

April 2015

BGSU Faculty and Students Present at PAA 2015 Annual Meeting

This year's Population Association of America annual meeting includes a strong presence from the NICHD-funded Center for Family and Demographic Research. Fourteen faculty members and 11 graduate students will present a research paper or poster or chair a session at the 2015 national meeting in San Diego, CA,
April 29 - May 2.

The PAA is a non-profit, scientific, professional organization that promotes research on population issues and has many leading scholars addressing family topics. Follow BGSU at PAA using the hashtag #BGSUPAA2015

View a comprehensive list for links to participants presenting excellent research papers and posters at this year's annual meeting:

Program Participation by Institution

Kelly Balistreri & Holly Fee

Bodyweight, Weight Perceptions and Health-Related Quality of Life at Age 29

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Posters and Papers

Esther O. Lamidi, Wendy D. Manning, & Susan L. Brown

Change in Stability of Premarital Cohabitation, 1980-2009

Jennifer Copp, Peggy C. Giordano, & Monica A. Longmore

Neighborhood Norms, Disadvantage, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration across Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Karen B. Guzzo

The Living Arrangements of Young Parents and Their Children

Laura Sanchez & Gwendolyn Zugarek

Pet Ownership and Access as Predictors of Self-Reported Health in a National Sample of U.S. Elders

Andrea Krieg, Jorge Chavez, Danielle C. Kuhl, & Raymond Swisher

Preferences Constrained: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Parents' Neighborhood Choice Considerations

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CFDR Participants

Matthew R. Wright &
Karen Benjamin Guzzo

Trends in Nonmarital Birth Rates and Approval of Nonmarital Childbearing in Western Countries

Professor of Research Excellence Susan L. Brown (l) & BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey

Brown Named Professor of Research Excellence

Congratulations to Susan L. Brown, Professor and Chair of Sociology and NCFMR Co-Director, who was recently recognized for her groundbreaking, cutting-edge research in family demography, sociology, and gerontology.

Her groundbreaking work with BGSU sociologist Dr. I-Fen Lin on "gray divorce" and people starting over romantically later in life has revealed important changes taking place in the life courses of Americans, and her findings in the area of child well-being provide insight that should be helpful to policy makers.

BGSU News 2015

BGSU honored Brown for her contributions and accomplishments at the Faculty Excellence Awards in April. continue reading...

Professors Receive Grant Funding

Associate Professor I-Fen Lin received a one-year grant from the PSID pilot grant program (funded by the National Institute on Aging) to support her project Parent's and Adult Children's Reports of Intergenerational Transfers.

Associate Professor Kei Nomaguchi has been awarded a three-year R15 grant from NICHD to support her research project Social and Interpersonal Environments and Parent-Child Relationship Quality from Preschool to Adolescence. Nomaguchi will work with a team of undergraduate and graduate researchers.

New Resources

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing and analyzing nationally representative data with the goal of providing the latest analysis of U.S. families.

The Role of Same-Sex Marriage in the Declining U.S. Marriage Rate

FP-15-07

Religiosity in U.S. Families: Single, Cohabiting, and Married Mothers

FP-15-06

NCFMR in the News

A full list of NCFMR in the News items and media links are available at NCFMR in the News.

Does being married bring you closer to God?

Deseret National News

Single boomers forming 'Golden Girls' Households

Wall Street Journal

Just Released

Books

Nancy Bermeo & Jonas Pontusson (Eds.), RSF

Coping with Crisis

Katharine Donato & Donna Gabaccia, RSF

Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age

David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, & Christopher Wimer (Eds.), RSF

The Great Recession

Carmen Knudson-Martin, Melissa A. Wells, & Sarah K. Samman (Eds.), Springer

Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy: Bridging Emotion, Societal Context, and Couple Interaction

Dr. Gary R. Lee

Gary R. Lee (BGSU Professor Emeritus of Sociology), Lexington Books

The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married Won't Solve All Our Problems

Briefs & Reports

Jay Fagan & Rebecca Kaufman, Fatherhood Research and Practice Network

Self-reported personal challenges of fathers in responsible fatherhood programs

Kathryn J. Holland, Veronica Caridad Rabelo, & Lilia M. Cortina, Springer

Sexual Assault Training in the Military: Evaluating Efforts to End the "Invisible War"

Institute of Medicine and National Research Council

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation

Jesse Rothstein, RSF

The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations

Data

Institute of Education Sciences

Early Childhood Longitudinal Program (ECLS)

Calendar of Events

May

Minnesota Council on Family Relations (MCFR) Spring 2015 Conference

The Complexities of Domestic Abuse: An Overview of Resources, Research and Effective Interventions

Date: May 1

MCFR

40th Annual Oklahoma Conference on Aging

Celebrate. Discover. Embrace.

Dates: May 5 - 7

Oklahoma Conference on Aging

Call for Poster Abstracts -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Conference on Health Statistics

Date Due: May 8

CDC

2015 Oregon Parenting Educators Conference -- Oregon State University (OSU)

Date: May 11

Oregon State University

Call for Registrations -- 2nd Annual ACS Data Users Conference

Dates: May 11 - 13

ACS

NCFR Webinar
Best Practices for Reaching and Teaching Stepfamilies
Date: May 14
NCFR

Northwest Council on Family Relations 2015 Conference (NWCFR)
Dates: May 14 - 15
NWCFR

Call for Articles -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)

Undocumented Immigration: Effects of Policy on the Experience of Illegality

Date Due: May 15

RSF

Call for Abstracts -- The Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM)

New Perspectives in Mentoring: A Quest for Leadership Excellence & Innovation

Date Due: May 15

UNM Mentoring Institute

June

Call for Applications -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)

Behavioral Economics

Date Due: June 1

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Date Due: June 1
RSF

Call for Applications -- Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation (OPRE)
Family Strengthening Research Scholars
Date Due: June 8
ACF

Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling Workshop -- Brigham Young University (BYU)
Applications with Individual and Family Level Data
Dates: June 11 - 12
BYU

Call for Papers Human Resource Management Review
The Role of Family Science Theories for Human Resource Management in Family Firm
Date Due: June 15
Call for Papers PDF

Call for Applications -- Oberlin College

Workshop on Quantitative Reasoning Pedagogy Computational Modeling with Nova Software

Dates: June 15 - 19
Oberlin College

Open Registration -- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

Dates: June and July

ICPSR

July

Call for Proposals -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)

The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Date Due: July 1

Link to RSF

Dyadic Data Analysis Workshop -- Michigan State University (MSU)

Dates: July 13 - 16
Link to MSU