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40
Citations
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5298
National Ranking
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Overview

Robert Schoen is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions in demography, sociology and political science, and gender studies. Their work spans a variety of topics including insurance, mortality, demography, risk management, family dynamics and relationships, demographic trends and gender preferences, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, global health care issues, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, and gender, labor, and family dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in the field of demography and related areas, with notable frequent publication venues including Demography, Gastroenterology, Demographic Research, Nutrients, and Genus.

Recent papers authored by Robert Schoen include:

  • Relating Period and Cohort Fertility, 2022, Demography
  • Dynamic Multistate Models With Constant Cross-Product Ratios: Applications to Poverty Status, 2020, Demography
  • Analyzing hyperstable population models, 2023, Demographic Research

Robert Schoen has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister, Polly A. Newcomb, Graham Casey, and Loïc Le Marchand.

Their academic pursuits cover a broad range of subfields including:

  • Demography
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Gender Studies
  • General Health Professions
  • Management Science and Operations Research

Topics addressed in their research reflect diverse demographic and social phenomena:

  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Demographic Modeling and Climate Adaptation
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Do fertility intentions affect fertility behavior

    Robert Schoen;Nan Marie Astone;Young J. Kim;Constance A. Nathanson

  • Causes of death : life tables for national populations

    Samuel H. Preston;Nathan Keyfitz;Robert Schoen

  • Family Demography, Social Theory, and Investment in Social Capital

    Nan Marie Astone;Constance A. Nathanson;Robert Schoen;Young J. Kim

  • Modeling multigroup populations

    Robert Schoen

  • Marriage choices in North Carolina and Virginia 1969-71 and 1979-81.

    Robert Schoen;John Wooldredge

  • Why Do Americans Want Children

    Robert Schoen;Young J. Kim;Constance A. Nathanson;Jason Fields

  • Women's Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce

    Robert Schoen;Nan Marie Astone;Kendra Rothert;Nicola J. Standish

  • The effect of attitudes and economic activity on marriage

    Sharon Sassler;Robert Schoen

  • Partner Choice in Marriages and Cohabitations.

    Robert Schoen;Robin M. Weinick

  • Precursors of Young Women's Family Formation Pathways.

    Paul R. Amato;Nancy S. Landale;Tara C. Havasevich-Brooks;Alan Booth

  • Timing Effects on Divorce: 20th Century Experience in the United States

    Robert Schoen;Vladimir Canudas-Romo

  • Measuring the tightness of a marriage squeeze

    Robert Schoen

  • The Retrenchment of Marriage: Results from Marital Status Life Tables for the United States, 1995

    Robert Schoen;Nicola Standish

  • Family Transitions In Young Adulthood

    Robert Schoen;Nancy S. Landale;Kimberly Daniels

  • Constructing increment-decrement life tables.

    Robert Schoen

  • Marriage and divorce in twentieth century American cohorts

    Robert Schoen;William Urton;Karen Woodrow;John Baj

  • Wives’ Employment and Spouses’ Marital Happiness Assessing the Direction of Influence Using Longitudinal Couple Data

    Robert Schoen;Stacy J. Rogers;Paul R. Amato

  • First Unions and the Stability of First Marriages.

    Robert Schoen

  • The harmonic mean as the basis of a realistic two-sex marriage model.

    Robert Schoen

  • Partner Choice and the Differential Retreat from Marriage.

    Robert Schoen;Yen-Hsin Alice Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Nan Marie Astone
Nan Marie Astone Johns Hopkins University
Nancy S. Landale
Nancy S. Landale Pennsylvania State University
Kenneth C. Land
Kenneth C. Land Duke University
Paul R. Amato
Paul R. Amato Pennsylvania State University
Susan M. McHale
Susan M. McHale Pennsylvania State University
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Margaret E. Ensminger
Margaret E. Ensminger Johns Hopkins University
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
Frank D. Bean
Frank D. Bean University of California, Irvine
Alan Booth
Alan Booth Pennsylvania State University

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