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65
Citations
18993
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1023
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476

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ronald R. Rindfuss is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science, international relations, health professions, management science, and global change.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Demographic modeling and climate adaptation
  • Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Health and Medical Studies

Rindfuss has authored several recent papers, notably:

  • "Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan," 2021, UNC Libraries
  • "Changing crops in response to climate: Virtual Nang Rong, Thailand in an agent based simulation," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Farming Systems and Rural Out-Migration in Nang Rong, Thailand, and Chitwan Valley, Nepal: Farming Systems and Rural Out-Migration," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Order amidst change: Work and family trajectories in Japan," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Design of an agent-based model to examine population-environment interactions in Nang Rong District, Thailand," 2020, UNC Libraries

Their frequent coauthors include Barbara Entwisle, Ashton M. Verdery, Minja Kim Choe, Noriko O. Tsuya, and Larry L. Bumpass, with multiple collaborative publications across studies.

Publications appear predominantly in the venue UNC Libraries, where Rindfuss has at least 15 works, and also in the journal Population.

Recognized within the scientific community, Rindfuss was awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • FERTILITY AND WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS

    Karin L. Brewster;Ronald R. Rindfuss

  • Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives

    Melinda Mills;Ronald R. Rindfuss;Peter McDonald;Egbert te Velde

  • Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues.

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Stephen J. Walsh;B. L. Turner;Jefferson Fox

  • The young adult years: diversity, structural change, and fertility.

    Ronald R. Rindfuss

  • People and pixels : linking remote sensing and social science

    Liverman D;Moran Ef;Rindfuss Rr;Stern Pc

  • First Births in America

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;S. Philip Morgan;Gray Swicegood

  • Disorder in the life course: how common and does it matter?

    RR Rindfuss;CG Swicegood;RA Rosenfeld

  • Education and the changing age pattern of American fertility: 1963-1989

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Samuel Philip Morgan;Kate Offutt

  • Cohabitation: A Precursor to Marriage or an Alternative to Being Single?

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Audrey VandenHeuvel

  • Changing Relationships between Education and Fertility: A Study of Women and Men Born 1940 to 1964

    Øystein Kravdal;Ronald R. Rindfuss

  • The Changing Institutional Context of Low Fertility

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Karen Benjamin Guzzo;S. Philip Morgan

  • Child-Care Availability and Fertility in Norway

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;David K. Guilkey;S. Philip Morgan;ØYstein Kravdal

  • Childrearing and fertility.

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Karin L. Brewster

  • Child care availability and first-birth timing in Norway

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;David K. Guilkey;S. Philip Morgan;Øystein Kravdal

  • Education and fertility: implications for the roles women occupy.

    Rindfuss Rr;Bumpass L;St John C

  • First births in America : changes in the timing of parenthood

    Rindfuss Rr;Morgan Sp;Swicegood G

  • Marital disruption: structural and temporal dimensions.

    S. Philip Morgan;Ronald R. Rindfuss

  • Land change science : observing, monitoring and understanding trajectories of change on the Earth's surface

    Garik Gutman;Anthony C. Janetos;Christopher O. Justice;Emilio F. Moran

  • Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand: A case study of Nang Rong

    Barbara Entwisle;Ronald R. Rindfuss;David K. Guilkey;Aphichat Chamratrithirong

  • The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States

    Karin L. Brewster;Elizabeth C. Cooksey;David K. Guilkey;Ronald R. Rindfuss

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Entwisle
Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Larry L. Bumpass
Larry L. Bumpass University of Wisconsin–Madison
S. Philip Morgan
S. Philip Morgan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David K. Guilkey
David K. Guilkey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
Øystein Kravdal
Øystein Kravdal Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills University of Oxford
Tom Evans
Tom Evans University of Arizona
Charles F. Westoff
Charles F. Westoff Princeton University
Charles Hirschman
Charles Hirschman University of Washington

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