Frances k. goldscheider Phone: (401) 863-2535
Office: Cabinet 302
email: Frances_Goldscheider@brown.eduTitle: University Professor and Professor of Sociology
Departmental affiliation(s): Population Studies and Training Center
Background info:
Fran Goldscheider received her Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the Department of Sociology at Brown in 1974. She has received numerous NICHD grants, and written many articles and books. Her research on changes in the American Family, New Families/No Families: The Transformation of the American Home (with Linda Waite) won the Otis Dudley Duncan prize from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association. She serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Demographic Research.Research interests:
Households and families, with a focus on living arrangements. Her research on living arrangements includes studies on the growth of living alone among the elderly, changes in leaving and returning home among young adults, the growth of absent and step-fathers, and the family consequences of child disability.Selected publications:
Goldscheider, F. and C. Goldscheider, 1999. The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home. Sage Publishing Company. 1999.
Sassler, S. and F. Goldscheider. 2004. “Revisiting Jane Austen's Theory of Marriage Timing: Union Formation Among American Men in the Late 20th Century”. Journal of Family Issues. 25:139-166.
Goldscheider, F. and R. Bures. 2003. “The Racial Crossover in Family Complexity in the US.” Demography. 40,3:569-587.