Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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Robert Schoen
Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography
717 Oswald Tower |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Demography) University of California, Berkeley, June 1972
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Primary interests are (1) family formation and dissolution, including marriage, marital and nonmarital fertility, cohabitation, and divorce, and (2) demographic methods and models. Secondary interests are (3) race/ethnic demography and (4) mortality.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Associate of the Society of Actuaries, since 1968
Associate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Advanced Study, Fall 1985
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, since 1988
Principal Investigator on 8 NIH, 1 NSF, and 1 Department of Labor research grants
Recipient of the Population Association of America's 2004 Mindel Sheps Award for research in Mathematical Demography and Demographic Methods
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Robert Schoen, Modeling Multigroup Populations. New York: Plenum, 1988.
Robert Schoen and Kenneth C. Land, “A General Algorithm for Estimating a Markov-Generated Increment-Decrement Life Table With Applications to Marital Status Patterns.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74 (December 1979): 761-779.
Robert Schoen and Lawrence E. Cohen, “Ethnic Endogamy Among Mexican American Grooms: A Reanalysis of Generational and Occupational Effects.” American Journal of Sociology, 86 (September 1980): 359-366.
Robert Schoen, William Urton, Karen Woodrow, and John Baj, “Marriage and Divorce in Twentieth Century American Cohorts.” Demography, 22 (February 1985): 101-114.
Robert Schoen and James R. Kluegel, “The Widening Gap in Black and White Marriage Rates: The Impact of Population Composition and Differential Marriage Propensities.” American Sociological Review, 53 (1988): 895-907.
Robert Schoen and John Wooldredge, “Marriage Choices in North Carolina and Virginia, 1969-1971 and 1979-1981.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51 (1989): 465-481.
Robert Schoen and Robin M. Weinick, “Partner Choice in Marriages and Cohabitations.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55 (May 1993): 408-414.
Robert Schoen, Young J. Kim, Constance A. Nathanson, Jason Fields, and Nan Marie Astone, “Why Do Americans Want Children?” Population and Development Review (June 1997): 333-358.
Robert Schoen and Nicola Standish, “The Retrenchment of Marriage: Results from Marital Status Life Tables for the United States, 1995,” Population and Development Review, 27(Sept 2001): 553-63.
Robert Schoen, Nan Marie Astone, Kendra Rothert, Nicola J. Standish, and Young J. Kim. “Women’s Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce.” Social Forces, 81 (December 2002): 643-62.
Robert Schoen and Stefan H. Jonsson, "Modeling Momentum in Gradual Demographic Transitions," DEMOGRAPHY 40 (Nov 2003): 621-35.
Robert Schoen, "Timing Effects and the Interpretation of Period Fertility," DEMOGRAPHY 41(Nov 2004): 801-19.