Michael Rosenfeld |
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Michael Rosenfeld is a social demographer who studies race, ethnicity, immigration, and family structure, especially family structure changes over time. His current research agenda focuses on alternative family forms of racial intermarriage and same sex cohabitation in the U.S., and on the reasons for rising incidence of these alternative family forms. He is currently working on two new projects: 1) A study of the development of children of same-sex couples, based on data from the US Census, the CPS, and Add Health. 2) A study of how couples meet, in other words where and when in the life course people first meet the individuals who will later become their partners and spouses (draft concept sheet here). This used to be a central research question in American sociology 60 years ago, when most people met their future partners in the same way (by living in the same neighborhood). Now that young adults marry later and spend more of their single years away from the parental nest, it is time to figure out how patterns of young adulthood affect who meets (and who partners) with whom. This project has already gathered pilot data. The project will include 1 year, 2 year, and 5 year follow ups to ascertain the relationship dissolution rates for all types of couples in the US, including the hard to study nontraditional unions. |
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RESEARCH AREAS
Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Books:
Recent Papers:
- M. Rosenfeld. Forthcoming. "Intermarriage." In the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society, Edited by Richard T. Shaefer. Sage Press. Draft copy here
- M. Rosenfeld. 2006. "Young Adulthood as a Factor in Social Change in the United States." Population and Development Review 32(1) 27-51. A year after original publication in the PDR, a copy will be posted here. Until that time, I offer an external link to Blackwell which allows university members and others with privileges to see the article. Email me if you want a copy of this paper.
- M. Rosenfeld and Byung-Soo Kim. 2005 "The Independence of Young Adults and the Rise of Interracial and Same Sex Unions" was the lead article in the American Sociological Review 70 (4):541-562. The ASA does not permit authors to post published papers on their own websites, but Stanford University members and ASA members may view the article through this external link to Ingenta. Also available are supplementary tables for the paper, describing the the method for making 1990 and 2000 census samples of same sex couples more consistent, as well as providing expanded tables of coefficients for some logistic regression models summarized in Table 7 of the paper. Email me if you want a copy of this paper. This paper was summarized and described as 'new and noteworthy research' in the Fall, 2006 edition of the sociology journal Contexts, p. 11.
- M. Rosenfeld, and M. Tienda, 1999. "Mexican Immigration, Occupational Niches and Labor Market Competition: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta, 1970-1990" Chapter 2 in Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the United States Edited by Frank D. Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose. New York: Russell Sage. There are two ways to get this chapter: you can buy the book from Russell Sage (search their website for publications here) or you can email me and I'll send you a PDF file.