Frances Goldscheider's research interests include demography, labor force, women's roles, families and households. Her studies on living arrangements include analyses of leaving and returning home among young adults in the U.S., entry into unions (marital and cohabiting), and absent and household fatherhood. She has written numerous books and scholarly articles.

Areas of interest: demography, labor force, women's roles, families and households.

My areas of research interest focus on family relationships, particularly those between committed adult couples (e.g., cohabiting, married) and those between parents and adult children. I teach courses in family and demography. I like to work on projects with students who are willing to do some statistical analysis. In the past two years, students have done projects on the role of young adults still living with their parents in the household division of labor and on the effect of parental remarriage on leaving home early (running away). I am starting a project on men who begin relationships with women who already have children, who they are, and what sort of parenting they do.

SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS (funded):

2005-10: NICHD, "Project III: Family Processes, Intergenerational Learning, and Involved Fathering" (consultant, Sandra Hofferth, PI)

2004-07: NIA, "An Acute/Chronic Care Link" (investigator with Susan Allen, PI)

2004-05: Brown University Salomon Grant, "Family Consequences of Child Disability" (Co-PI with Dennis Hogan)

2000-05: Swedish Research Foundation, "Immigration and the Transition to Adulthood: Generational Continuity and Change in Sweden " (Co-PI with Calvin Goldscheider and Eva Bernhardt)

1999-2005: NICHD, "Family Network" (with Dennis Hogan, PI)

2001-03: NSF, "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Fatherhood and Gender Roles in Families: Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Korean Families" (with Yoo-Jean Song)

1998-2002: NSF, "A Comparative Analysis of Union Formation" (Co-PI with Dennis Hogan)

1998-2001: NICHD, "Portrait of Men's Provider and Parental Roles, 1880-1996" (Co-PI with D. Hogan)

Fulbright Fellowship to Sweden, 2001-02

Chair, Career Award Committee of the Family Section of the American Sociological Association, 1999-2000

Editor, Demography , 1994-95 (Vols. 31-32)

Awarded 1993 Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association for New Families, No Families

Second vice president of Population Association of America, 1991-92; board member, 1987-90

Chair, Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 1988-89

Member, Sociology Review Panel, National Science Foundation, 1984-86

Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, 1983-84

Member, NIH Ad Hoc Social and Behavioral Sciences Advisory Group, 1979-83

Phi Beta Kappa, 1964

Bixby Visiting Scholar, Population Reference Bureau (2005-06)