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Welcome
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to News and Notes, our monthly electronic newsletter. News and Notes aims to keep you informed about the activities of the NCFMR. We will also announce funding and research opportunities, provide registration information for conferences and workshops, and keep you up to date on current research findings.
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What's New at the NCFMR... The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.
Request for Proposals: Small Grants Competition, 2011
Fathers and Fathering
Application Receipt Deadline: Friday, February 18, 2011
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research seeks to fund up to four proposals ($20,000 per award) to support innovative research that contributes to theoretical, conceptual, or methodological developments about fathers and fathering.
View Request for Proposal (RFP)
Link to External Grants webpage
Examine Our Newly Released Data ResourcesOur extensive data resources facilitate research on families and well-being. Be sure to examine our newly released additions to the following collections: Data Points, The Date Source, Measures Snapshots, and Working Paper Series.
Data Points
Tables and figures integrating statistics and demographic perspectives designed to investigate the links between marriage and family well-being at all stages of the life course.
Parental Incarceration
View Data Points webpage
The Data Source
Documents describing newly released data sets, such as American Community Survey (ACS), Monitoring the Future (MTF), and National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), used by the family research community. View The Data Source webpage
Measures Snapshots
A collection of detailed summaries of family measures available in several large, national data sets.
Child Well-being
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
Waves 3 & 4
View Measures Snapshots webpage
Working Papers
A collection of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students.
Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Pajarita Charles, Shenyang Guo, Kim Manturuk, and Clinton Key (2009 External Grantees)
The Effect of Marital Status on Homeownership Among Low-Income Households (WP-10-18)
View Working Paper Series webpage
Congratulations to Professor Gary Lee
BGSU NCFMR Research Affiliate Awarded the Designation of 2010 NCFR Fellow
Fellow status in the National Council on Family Relations is an honor awarded to relatively few living members of NCFR who have made outstanding and enduring contributions to the field of the family in the areas of scholarship, teaching, outreach, or professional service. NCFMR congratulates Dr. Lee on his achievement!
View Dr. Lee's biography and CV
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Birth Rate for Women 40-44 Rose to Highest Level Reported in 40+ Years
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics presents data on U.S. births according to a wide variety of measures, such as maternal demographic characteristics and birth and fertility rates.
Gap in Married and Unmarried Birth Rate Narrows
a Births to married women per 1,000 married women aged 15-44 years.
b Births to unmarried women per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15-44 years.
Adapted from Table C "Births and birth rates for unmarried and married women, United States: 1980, 1985 and 1990-2008" by, J.A. Martin, B.E. Hamilton, P.D. Sutton, S.J. Ventura, and M.J.K. Mathews Osterman, 2010, Births: Final data for 2008, National vital statistics reports, Vol 59, No 1. by the National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_01.pdf |
National Science Foundation (NSF) Offers Grant Opportunities
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program
Deadline: January 10, 2011
Supported by NSF, The AERA Grants Program fosters advanced scientific study of education and learning using large-scale data sets collected or supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, or other federal agencies.
The following research initiatives and institutes have set January 2011 deadlines.AERA Dissertation Grants -- For detailed information, visit...http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.htmlAERA Research Grants -- For detailed information, visit...http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/res_grants/RGFly.htmlAERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy: Transitions from High School to College -- For detailed information, visit...http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/stat_institute/SIFly.htmlAERA Faculty Institute for the Teaching of Statistics with Large-Scale Data Sets -- For detailed information, visit...http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/stat_institute/SIFacFly.htmlIf you have further questions, please contact:
Ming Lowe
Program Manager
AERA Grants Program
202-238-3200, ext. 227
grantsprogram@aera.net
Link to AERA website
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Upcoming Events |
January 2011Call for Papers -- American Sociological Association (ASA) 2011 Annual Meeting
Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas
Date Due: January 13
Link to ASA
Call for Applications -- Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2011Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public PolicyDate Due: January 14 Link to NPC Call for Papers -- 2nd Annual IGSS ConferenceIntegrating Genetics and the Social SciencesDate Due: January 15 Link to IGSSCall for Papers -- MPRC, NICHD, Economic Research Service, and IZA International Perspectives on Time UseDate Due: January 15 Link to Maryland Population Research Center
Request for Proposals -- University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR)Research Program on Childhood HungerDate Due: January 25 Link to UKCPR
Research Paper Competitions -- ICPSRUndergraduates and Master's Students Date Due: January 31 Link to ICPSR
February 2011Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies (OACAA)2011 Winter Legislative ConferenceDate: February 2-4 Link to OACAA2011 International Conference on Parent Education and ParentingChanging Families in a Changing WorldDate: February 10-11 Link to UNTCall for Applications -- Center for Population Research in LGBT Health Pre-Doctoral Mentoring Program in LGBT Health ResearchDate Due: February 15 Link to Center for Population Research in LGBT Health
Call for Applications -- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Undergraduate Internship Program -- 2011Date Due: February 15 Link to ICPSR
March 2010Call for Proposals -- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 73rd Annual ConferenceFamilies and the Shifting EconomyDate Due: March 1 Link to NCFR
Southeastern Council on Family Relations (SECFR) ConferenceWe Shall Overcome: Changing the Status Quo for Families in the SoutheastDate: March 3-4 Link to SECFR Newsletter
Call for Applications -- 18th Annual RAND Summer InstituteDemography, Economics, and Epidemiology of AgingDate Due: March 11 Link to RAND
Texas Council on Family Relations (TCFR) Annual ConferencePromoting Healthy Families: Sexuality Across the LifespanDate: March 31-April 1 Preconference on Domestic Violence Date: March 30 Link to TCFR |
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NCFMR Team Co-directors Dr. Susan Brown
Dr. Wendy Manning
Secretary Kay Carpenter
Social Science Data Analyst Krista Payne
Technical Writer
Lesley Wadsworth Social Science Data Analyst Hsueh-Sheng Wu
Graduate Research Assistant
Sayaka Kawamura
National Advisory Committee
Internal Advisory Committee
BGSU Research Affiliates
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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research, established in 2007 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to improve our understanding of how family structure and marriage affect the health and well-being of families, adults, children and communities and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.
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This project was supported with a grant from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human
Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, grant 5 UOI AEOOOOOI-04. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s)
and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the
Federal government.
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