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Elizabeth Cooksey
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Social demography, life course transitions, and the development of youth and children. Current research focuses on adolescent sexual and contraceptive behaviors, effects of parents’ lives on children, religious beliefs and behaviors of youth, and demographic transitions among the Amish. Principal investigator for the NLSY79 Young Adult Survey.
Recent Publications:
- 2002 Cooksey, Elizabeth C., Frank Mott and Stefanie Neubauer. “Friendships and Early Relationships: Links to Sexual Initiation Among American Adolescents Born to Young Mothers.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (formerly Family Planning Perspectives) 34(3):118-126.
- 2001 Cooksey, Elizabeth C. and Ronald R. Rindfuss. “Patterns of Work and Schooling in Young Adulthood.” Sociological Forum, 16(4):
- 1999 Joshi, Heather, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Richard D. Wiggins, Andrew McCulloch, Georgia Verropoulou and Lynda Clarke. “Diverse Family Living Situations and Child Development: A Multilevel Analysis Comparing Longitudinal Evidence from Britain and the United States.” International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. 13:292-314.
- 1999 Rindfuss, Ronald R., Elizabeth C. Cooksey, and Rebecca Sutterlin. "Young Adult Occupational Achievement: Early Expectations Versus Behavioral Reality." Work and Occupations 26(2):220-263.
- 1998 Cooksey, Elizabeth C. and Patricia H. Craig. “Parenting From a Distance: The Effects of Paternal Characteristics on Contact Between Nonresidential Fathers and Their Children.” Demography 35(2):187-200.
- 1998 Clarke, Lynda, Elizabeth C. Cooksey and Georgia Verropolou. "A Socio-Demographic Profile of Fathers in Britain and the United States." Demography 35(2):217-228.
