Sharon Sassler

Best Publications

• Partnering across the Life Course: Sex, Relationships, and Mate Selection

  Sharon Sassler

  425
  Citations

• What's So Special about STEM? A Comparison of Women's Retention in STEM and Professional Occupations

  Jennifer L. Glass;Sharon Sassler;Yael Levitte;Katherine M. Michelmore

  416
  Citations

• The Process of Entering into Cohabiting Unions

  Sharon Sassler

  375
  Citations

• Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union-Formation Patterns

  Sharon Sassler;Daniel T. Lichter

  300
  Citations

• The effect of attitudes and economic activity on marriage

  Sharon Sassler;Robert Schoen

  294
  Citations

• The missing women in STEM? Assessing gender differentials in the factors associated with transition to first jobs

  Sharon Sassler;Jennifer Glass;Yael Levitte;Katherine M. Michelmore

  211
  Citations

• National estimates of the rise in serial cohabitation

  Daniel T. Lichter;Richard N. Turner;Sharon Sassler

  206
  Citations

• Creating Stepfamilies: Integrating Children Into the Study of Union Formation

  Frances Goldscheider;Sharon Sassler

  196
  Citations

• Waiting to Be Asked: Gender, Power, and Relationship Progression Among Cohabiting Couples

  Sharon L. Sassler;Amanda Jayne Miller

  185
  Citations

• Revisiting Jane Austen’s Theory of Marriage Timing Changes in Union Formation among American Men in the Late 20th Century

  Sharon Sassler;Frances Goldscheider

  180
  Citations

• Cohabitation, post-conception unions, and the rise in nonmarital fertility.

  Daniel T. Lichter;Sharon Sassler;Richard N. Turner

  141
  Citations

• Cohabitation: An Alternative Form of Family Living

  Zheng Wu

  140
  Citations

• For Better or For Worse? The Consequences of Marriage and Cohabitation for Single Mothers

  Kristi Williams;Sharon Sassler;Lisa M. Nicholson

  137
  Citations

• Financial Arrangements and Relationship Quality in Low-Income Couples

  Fenaba R. Addo;Sharon Sassler

  135
  Citations

• Are They Really Mama’s Boys/Daddy’s Girls? The Negotiation of Adulthood upon Returning to the Parental Home

  Sharon Sassler;Desiree Ciambrone;Gaelan Benway

  130
  Citations

• Class Differences in Cohabitation Processes

  Sharon Sassler;Amanda J. Miller

  125
  Citations

• Cohabiting couples’ economic circumstances and union transitions: a re-examination using multiple imputation techniques ☆

  Sharon Sassler;James McNally

  125
  Citations

• Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship Quality

  Sharon Sassler;Anna Cunningham;Daniel T. Lichter

  116
  Citations

• Nonmarital Childbearing, Union History, and Women's Health at Midlife

  Kristi Williams;Sharon Sassler;Adrianne Frech;Fenaba Addo

  82
  Citations

• The Specter of Divorce: Views From Working- and Middle-Class Cohabitors

  Amanda J. Miller;Sharon Sassler;Dela Kusi-Appouh

  74
  Citations