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52
Citations
26754
World Ranking
2354
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1141

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Andrew J. Cherlin is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. The main field of their research is Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Gender Studies, and General Health Professions.

Their work primarily examines topics related to Family Dynamics and Relationships, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, as well as Social and Cultural Dynamics. Additional areas of their research include Work-Family Balance Challenges, Social Capital and Networks, and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences.

Recent publications by Andrew J. Cherlin include the following:

  • Degrees of Change: An Assessment of the Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Thesis, 2020, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Rising nonmarital first childbearing among college-educated women: Evidence from three national studies, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 2023, Sociological Science
  • White Working-Class Support for Trump, 2021, Contexts
  • "GOOD, BETTER, BEST", 2020, Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race

Frequent co-authors of Cherlin include:

  • J. Carlson
  • Amanda Cox

Publication venues where Andrew J. Cherlin's work has appeared frequently include:

  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Sociological Science
  • Contexts
  • Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race

Their contributions to the academic community have been recognized through several awards, such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. Previous honors include Fellowship of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2011 and Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Marriage, divorce, remarriage

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • The deinstitutionalization of American marriage

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Remarriage as an Incomplete Institution

    Andrew Cherlin

  • The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part

    Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.;Andrew J. Cherlin

  • The role of cohabitation in declining rates of marriage.

    Larry L. Bumpass;James A. Sweet;Andrew Cherlin

  • Longitudinal studies of effects of divorce on children in Great Britain and the United States

    Andrew J. Cherlin;Frank F. Furstenberg;P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Kathleen E. Kiernan

  • Demographic Trends in the United States: A Review of Research in the 2000s

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Family Instability and Child Well-Being

    Paula Fomby;Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Effects of parental divorce on mental health throughout the life course

    Andrew J. Cherlin;P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Christine McRae

  • The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults: A Developmental Perspective

    P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Andrew J. Cherlin;Kathleen E. Kiernan

  • STEPFAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES: A Reconsideration

    Andrew J. Cherlin;Frank F. Furstenberg

  • Public and Private Families: An Introduction

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • The New American Grandparent: A Place in the Family, A Life Apart

    Andrew J. Cherlin;Frank F. Furstenberg

  • American Marriage in the Early Twenty-First Century

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood

    Andrew J. Cherlin;Kathleen E. Kiernan;P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

  • Going to extremes: family structure, children's well-being, and social science.

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • The divorce process and young children's well-being : a prospective analysis

    Donna Ruane Morrison;Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Mothers' Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents

    P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Robert A. Moffitt;Brenda J. Lohman;Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America

    Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part

    Norval D. Glenn;Frank F. Furstenberg;Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage

    Jessie Bernard;Andrew J. Cherlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank F. Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Northwestern University
Linda M. Burton
Linda M. Burton University of California, Berkeley
Nan Marie Astone
Nan Marie Astone Johns Hopkins University
Kathleen Kiernan
Kathleen Kiernan University of York
Rebekah Levine Coley
Rebekah Levine Coley Boston College
Linda B. Bourque
Linda B. Bourque University of California, Los Angeles
Robert E. Emery
Robert E. Emery University of Virginia
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal University of Pittsburgh
Carol A. Van Hulle
Carol A. Van Hulle University of Wisconsin–Madison

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