FAMDEM

FAMDEM: Family Analysts Meeting to Discuss Emerging Manuscripts

FAMDEM, originated in Fall 2008, is a friendly, informal group for students, faculty, and postdocs to present early results from (and get feedback on) their research on Family Demography. Families are central to many social processes at the macro and micro levels. Marriage and childcare continue to be highly gendered, with implications for stratification in the workplace. Changes in work and social policy over the past century have had profound implications for social expectations about marriage, fertility, and intergenerational relationships. Families continue to link the opportunities of children to those of their parents and thus families are still central to (re)production of the next generation. These are some of the topics of research FAMDEM members discuss at meetings.

In the Fall 2024 semester, we will meet from 10-11am on Wednesdays in the PRC fishbowl (RLP 2.706); a Zoom link (https://utexas.zoom.us/my/kylieszoom) is also available for those who would like to participate online.

If you would like to join FAMDEM or if you are a member who would like to present send an email to kylie.yim@utexas.edu. Our schedule is below.

Meeting schedule (Fall 2024)

September 18. Kylie Jaeyun Yim. "Joyful Yet Burdensome: Cross-Societal Differences in the Attitudes Toward Childbearing." (Formal presentation)

October 2. Carly Young. "It’s Roe’s Problem: Gendered Responsibilities in Unplanned Pregnancy Resolution under Dobbs" (Informal presentation)

October 23. Anne Flanagan. "Parenthood and Mental Health among U.S. Women: Heterogeneity by Racial/Ethnic Identity and Household Characteristics" (Informal presentation)

November 6. Kerry Waldrep. "How Did the Pandemic Change Support for Federal Work-family Policies?" (Informal presentation)

November 20. Kyungwon Choi. "Parenting a Child with Serious Health Conditions and Marital Instability" (Informal presentation)

December 4. Noah DiAntonio. "Effects of State-Level Policy Regimes on Family Caregiver Wellbeing." (Formal presentation)

Recent presentations

April 24. Kristen Burke. "Marriage and Fertility in the Contemporary US." (Formal presentation)

April 10. PAA Practice Talks (Isabel McLoughlin Brooks; Kylie Jaeyun Yim; Kristen Burke and Kerry Waldrep)

March 27. Kylie Jaeyun Yim. "Are Children Too Costly? Cross-Societal Differences in the Attitudes Toward Childbearing." (Informal presentation)

February 28. Jaime Feng-Yuan Hsu and Asya Saydam. "Financial Stress and Mental Health: A Dyadic Analysis of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in the US." (Formal presentation)

February 14. Kristen Burke and Kerry Waldrep. "Planning for a Family while Paying Down Student Loans: The Evolution of Fertility Intentions and Behaviors in Early Adulthood." (Informal presentation)

November 29. Kimberly McErlean and Jennifer Glass. "Show Me the Money: How children’s monetary support is split between mothers and fathers in the contemporary U.S." (Formal presentation)

November 8. Kylie Jaeyun Yim. "Lost Desires: Gender Role Attitudes and Fertility Desires in East Asia." (Informal presentation)

October 25. Kathryn Wiley. "Wealth-Building, Resource Sharing, and Superwomaning: The Economic Centrality of Middle-Class Black Women to their Households." (Practice Job Talk)

October 11. Amanda Nagle. "Pregnancy loss through a demographer's lens: How common is the experience of pregnancy loss among American women?" (Informal presentation)

September 27. Asya Saydam and Shannon Cavanagh. "Maternal Depression Across Early Childhood: Similarities and Differences Across three Liberal Democracies." (Formal presentation)

September 13. Youngjoon Bae. "Examining the role of living alone in the trends of obesity and sarcopenic obesity by birth cohorts among American older men and women." (Formal presentation)

March 1. Michelle Eilers. "Gendered Expectations when asked to Perform Oral Sex: Capturing Women's, Men's, and Nonbinary People's Perceptions in a National Survey Experiment."

February 15. Shannon Cavanagh. "Mothering while Sick: Poor Health and Educational Attainment among Young Adults."

February 8. Narae Park. "Is There a Child Penalty in South Korea?"

November 30. Asya Saydam. "How long can he stay?: The association between young men's co-residence with parents and employment outcomes in early middle age.

November 9. Kylie Jaeyun Yim. "Diversifying Tradition: Family Values and Fertility Intentions of Korean Women, 2010-2020."

October 26. Kim McErlean, Joanna Pepin, and Jennifer Glass. "What are the economic consequences of the rise in maternal breadwinning?"

September 28. Gaëlle Meslay. "Relationship Type and Relationship Satisfaction: Major Differences Across Generations of LGB Individuals."

September 14. Hyungmin Cha. "Can Social Engagement after Bereavement Reduce Trajectories of Depression after the Death of a Child?"

Select Publications

Saydam, Asya, and Kelly Raley. 2024. "Slow to launch: Young men's parental coresidence and employment outcomes." Journal of Marriage and Family.

McErlean, Kimberly, and Jennifer L. Glass. 2024. "How do households fare economically when mothers become their primary financial support?." Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Burke, Kristen Lagasse, and Joseph E. Potter. 2023. "Meeting preferences for specific contraceptive methods: an overdue indicator." Studies in Family Planning.

Brooks, Isabel H. McLoughlin, and Abigail Weitzman. 2022. "Religiosity and young unmarried women's sexual and contraceptive behavior: new evidence from a longitudinal panel of young adult women." Demography.

Glass, Jennifer L., R. Kelly Raley, and Joanna R. Pepin. 2021. “Children’s Financial Dependence on Mothers: Propensity and Duration.” Socius 7:23780231211055250. doi: 10.1177/23780231211055246.

McErlean, Kim. 2021. “The Growth of Education Differentials in Marital Dissolution in the United States.” Demographic Research 45(26):841–56. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2021.45.26.

Coffey, Diane, Payal Hathi, Nazar Khalid, and Amit Thorat. forthcoming. “Measurement of population mental health: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India.” Health Policy & Planning.

Gupta, Aashish and Diane Coffey. 2020. “Caste, religion, and mental health in India.” Population Research & Policy Review. 39, 1119–1141.

Broussard, Kathleen and Abigail Weitzman. forthcoming. “Fertility Ideals and Sibling Loss: Evidence from the High Mortality Context of Peru.” Population Studies.

Dernberger, Brittany N. and Joanna R. Pepin. 2020. Young Adults’ Expectations of the Division of Labor in their Future Families. Sociological Science. doi: 10.15195/v7.a2

Wikle, Jocelyn S., Elizabeth Ackert, and Alexander C. Jensen. 2019. "Companionship Patterns and Emotional States During Social Interactions for Adolescents With and Without Siblings. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48: 2190-2206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01121-z

Coffey, Diane and Dean Spears. Forthcoming. "Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition." The Economic Journal.

Villanueva, Aida and Ken-Hou Lin. Conditionally accepted. “Motherhood Wage Penalties in Latin America: The Significance of Labor Informality”. Social Forces

Raley, R. Kelly, Inbar Weiss, Robert Reynolds, Shannon Cavanagh. 2019. "Estimating Children's Household Instability from Birth until Age 18 using Longitudinal Household Roster Data.” Demography , 56(5): 1957-1973. 10.1007/s13524-019-00806-1.

Rachel Donnelly, Debra Umberson, and Tetyana Pudrovska. 2018. "Family Member Death and Subjective Life Expectancy Among Black and White Older Adults." Journal of Aging & Health

Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Ressler, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe. 2018. "Maternal Employment, Community Contexts, and the Child-Care Arrangements of Diverse Groups." Journal of Marriage and Family 80:1210-1224.

Yahirun, Jenjira and Erika Arenas. 2018. "Offspring Migration and Parents' Emotional and Psychological Well-being in Mexico." Journal of Marriage and Family

Cobb, J. Adam and Ken-Hou Lin. 2017. “Growing Apart: The Declining Firm-Size Wage Effect and Its Wage Inequality Consequence.” Organization Science 28: 429-446.

Ansari, Arya, et al.. 2017. "Differential Third-Grade Outcomes Associated with Attending Publicly Funded Preschool Programs for Low Income Latino Children." Child Development 88: 1743-1756

Olson, Julie Skalamera and Robert Crosnoe. 2017. “Are You Still Bringing Me Down? Romantic Involvement and Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Young Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior .

Frisco, Michelle, Marin R. Wenger, and Derek A. Kreager. 2017. "Extradyadic sex and union dissolution among young adults in opposite-sex married and cohabiting unions." Social Science Research. 62: 291-304.

Kuo, Janet Chen-Lan and R. Kelly Raley. 2016. “Is it All about Money? Work Characteristics and Women’s and Men’s Marriage Formation in Early Adulthood.” Journal of Family Issues. 37:1046-1073 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14530973

Kim, Yujin and R. Kelly Raley. 2015. “Race-Ethnic Differences in the Non-marital Fertility Rates in 2006–2010. Population Research and Policy Review. 34(1): 141-159. DOI: 10.1007/s11113-014-9342-9

Augustine, Jennifer March and R. Kelly Raley. April 2013. “Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers.” Journal of Family Issues 34(4): 431-459. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X12439177

Raley, R. Kelly, Kim, Yujin, and Kimberly Daniels. 2012. “Young adults' fertility expectations and events, Associations with college enrollment and persistence.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 74: 866-879. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00990.x

McNamee, Catherine M. and R. Kelly Raley. 2011. “A Note on Race, Ethnicity and Nativity Differentials in Remarriage in the United States.” Demographic Research. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.13

Uecker, Jeremy E and Mark D. Regnerus. 2010. Bare Market: Campus Sex Ratios, Romantic Relationships, and Sexual Behavior. The Sociological Quarterly 51: 408-435

Members (updated September 2024)

Shannon Cavanagh, Professor
Kyungwon Choi, Postdoc
Jordan Conwell, Professor
Robert Crosnoe, Professor
Diane Coffey, Professor
Noah DiAntonio, Graduate Student
Anne Flanagan, Graduate Student
Michael Garcia, Research Associate
Jennifer Glass, Professor
Jaime Feng-Yuan Hsu, Graduate Student
Kara Joyner, Professor (UTSA)
Isabel McLoughlin Brooks, Graduate Student
Gaëlle Meslay, Assistant Professor of Instruction
Amanda Nagle, Graduate Student
Kelly Raley, Professor Emeritus
Iani SAM, Graduate Student
Asya Saydam, Graduate Student
Sarah Song, Graduate Student
Kerry Waldrep, Graduate Student
Abigail Weitzman, Professor
Brooke Whitfield, Graduate Student
Xuewen Yan, Postdoc
Carly Young, Graduate Student
Kylie Jaeyun Yim, Graduate Student (Coordinator)

Past Participants currently in academic or research positions

Liz Ackert, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara
Carolina Aragao, Research Associate, Pew Research Center
Jennifer Augustine, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina
Youngjoon Bae, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
Kathleen Broussard, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina
Kristen Burke, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco
Christina Caramanis, Assistant Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at Austin
Hyungmin Cha , Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California
Rachel Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Shih-Yi Chao, Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
Michelle Eilers, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Minnesota
Michelle Frisco, Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State University
Lauren Gaydosh, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina
Conrad Hackett, Associate Director and Senior Demographer, Pew Research Center
Dana M. Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carol Johnston, Assistant Professor of Applied Human Development, Kansas State University
Yujin Kim, Assistant Professor, Kangwon University
Rhiannon Kroeger, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
Janet Kuo, Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Danya Lagos, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
David McClendon, Principal, January Advisors
Kim McErlean, Postdoctoral Researcher, European University Institute
Cate McNamee, Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast
David Pedulla, Professor, Harvard University
Joanna Pepin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Kate Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children. Victoria University of Wellington
Goleen Samari, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Population and Family Health
Chuck Stokes, Associate Professor, Samford University
Jeffrey Swindle, College Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard University
Jeremy Uecker Associate Professor Baylor University
Aida Villanueva, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Kathryn Wiley, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Clemson University
Jenjira Yahirun Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University