Advances in Social Demography

Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972.  He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography.  In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography / Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.

• Part I: Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Social demography and social capital: An introduction and overview.- Chapter 2. Climate change and migration readiness, willingness, and ability.- Chapter 3. Policies and fertility: Pronatalist vs. structural approaches.- Chapter 4. Social origin and family formation: How marriage and parenthood affect the (re)production of social inequalities.- Part II: Marriage and Union Formation.- Chapter 5. The declining significance of age in support for cohabitation, 1994-2022.- Chapter 6. Do global inequalities shape marriage market patterns? Rethinking assortative mating in cross-national unions.- Chapter 7. Partnering with partisans: The importance of party identity for long-term partner preferences.- Chapter 8. Religious paradox or political divide? The intersection of religion, politics, and place of marriage in the US.- Part III: Contemporary Family Dynamics.- Chapter 9. U.S. women’s and men’s experience of complex parenthood.- Chapter 10. The impact of blurred work-family boundaries on parents’ well-being.- Chapter 11. Adults’ verbal abuse toward children: The role of unintended parenthood, parenting stress, and social psychological risk.- Part IV: Fertility and Childlessness.- Chapter 12. Subjective well-being and fertility uncertainty during the pandemic.- Chapter 13. Prevalence, cohort trends, and correlates of multiple-partner fertility in Colombia.- Chapter 14. Delayed fertility and childlessness.- Part V: Models and Methods.- Chapter 15. Generalizing the period-cohort translation relationship to mortality and other decrements.- Chapter 16. Heterogeneity in disability-free life expectancy: A discrete mixture model.- Chapter 17. Exponential age-change in fertility, proportional age-change, and stability.