Education
1993 Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1988 M.A., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1980 B.A., Philosophy, College of William and Mary
About
Recent Research Project
- Sibling influences on parent-adult child relations – This research (with Profs. Spitze and Ward) extends work on how relations between parents and adult children are imbedded in and influenced by relationships with other adult children. Innovative methods are applied to examine the processes by which families allocate intergenerational support between parents and multiple adult children.
Research Interests
- Population and Environment
- Methods for Correlated Errors