News and Notes

May 2015

"Careerists" Comprise 10% of Divorced Population

Divorce has become more common among older adults. The gray divorce rate, which refers to divorces among persons ages 50 and older, has doubled since 1990. Undergraduate Research Assistant Ashley Spangler examined older adults who have experienced divorce to determine the life course timing of this event. She found that most (83%) people over age 50 who had ever divorced did so prior to age 50. Of the roughly 17% who experienced a gray divorce, more than half had also divorced earlier life course (prior to age 50). She described these individuals as "divorce careerists." See the latest NCFMR Family Profile Divorce Before vs. After Age 50 (FP-15-09).

Interactive Profile

Data: Health and Retirement Study, 2010

New Resources

Family Profiles

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

Divorce Before vs. After Age 50

FP-15-09

The Remarriage Rate: Geographic Variation, 2013

FP-15-08

Resources by Topic

A variety of research products organized by topic.

Remarriage

NCFMR in the News

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

Q & A with Dr. Kenneth Pargament

Ladue News

Just Released

Books

James S. House, Russell Sage Foundation

Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy

National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2015

Realizing the Potential of the American Community Survey: Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities

Toby L. Parcel & Andrew J. Taylor, The University of North Carolina Press

The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments

Briefs & Reports

Mindy E. Scott, Shelby Hickman, Eliza Brown, & Bianca Faccio, Child Trends

A Guide to Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs for Hispanic Couples and Families

UN Women

Progress of the World's Women 2015 - 2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights

Nan Marie Astone, Steven Martin, & H. Elizabeth Peters, Urban Institute

Millennial Childbearing and the Recession

Data

IPUMS

Multimedia

Population Reference Bureau

U.S. Marriage, Divorce, Childbearing Trends Bring Risks for Parents, Children

American Community Survey (ACS) Website Launch Planned for June

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to launch a newly designed website for the ACS on June 23. The website will contain terminology consistent with census.gov, allowing users to quickly find information. Users may need to update previously bookmarked pages, so ACS will provide hyperlinks to the most popular content in their announcements.

Calendar of Events

June

Call for Applications -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)

Behavioral Economics

Date Due: June 1

Link to RSF

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Date Due: June 1
Link to RSF

Writing/Designing Winning NSF Proposals Workshop -- Case Western Reserve University
Date: June 2
Link to Grant Training Center (GTC)

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

Call for Applications -- Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
FY 2015 Graduate Research Fellowship Program for Criminal Justice Statistics
Date Due: June 10
Link to BJS

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

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

Call for Papers and Conference -- The University of Northampton Centre for Children & Youth and the Institute of Health & Wellbeing
The Great Outdoors? Children, Young People and Families in Natural and Rural Spaces
Date Due: June 15
Conference Dates: September 9 - 10
Link to The University of Northampton Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Call for Applications -- Oberlin College

Workshop on Quantitative Reasoning Pedagogy Computational Modeling with Nova Software

Dates: June 15 - 19
Link to Oberlin College

Call for Applications -- The Berkeley Population Center, Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, and the Department of Demography at the University of California Berkeley
Economic Demography
Date Due: June 30
Link to UC Berkeley Population Center

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

Dates: June and July

Link to 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

Call for Applications -- National Healthy Marriage Resource Center

Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants

Date Due: July 7

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

Dates: July 13 - 16

Link to MSU

Summer Data Workshop -- Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

Digging into the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE): Exploiting the Potential of the Household and Provider Data Files from the NSECE

Dates: July 20 - 23

Link to ICPSR
Link to Workshop Flyer

August

Call for Papers -- Journal of Family and Economic Issues (JFEI)
Uneven Recoveries from the Great Recession
Date Due: August 1
Link to JFEI

Call for Abstracts -- Auckland University of Technology Fifth International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR5)
Date Due: August 1
Link to ICAR5

The Berkeley Formal Demography Workshop -- The Berkeley Population Center
Economic Demography
Dates: August 17 - 21
Link to UC Berkeley Population Center