Current Postdocs and Grad StudentsThe following students are conducting life course research at the Carolina Population Center in collaboration with each other and Glen Elder. See the Where are they now? page to follow the careers of past postdoctoral fellows.
Ph.D. in Sociology, Florida State University (2004) Postdoctoral Fellow at CPC beginning in 2004 smcdonal@unc.edu Steve's research interests center on the impact of social networks on employment outcomes across the work career. His research examines informal job matching processes and demonstrates the importance of including "non-searchers"--people who get their jobs without searching for them--into empirical analyses of the effectiveness of social capital. His research also emphasizes the need to incorporate a life course perspective into the study of informal job matching. In his latest project, Steve is using Add Health data to examine the role of social network resources in the transition to early employment. David Warner Ph.D. in Sociology, Penn State (2004) Postdoctoral Fellow at UNC beginning in 2004 david.warner@unc.edu Lance Erickson M.A. in Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2002) Predoctoral Trainee at CPC beginning in 2001 ldericks@email.unc.edu Lance's main research interests are related to adolescence and the transition to adulthood. His dissertation examines the role of informal mentoring for adolescents using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Specifically, he is examining processes that account for selection into informal mentoring relationships and how informal mentors are related with different trajectories of antisocial behaviors and depressive symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood using a growth mixture modeling framework. Tyson Brown M.A. in Sociology, University of Florida (2003) Predoctoral Trainee at CPC beginning in 2003 thbrown@email.unc.edu Tyson's primary research interests are in the sociology of aging and the life course. His current projects include examinations of the influence of marital histories on wealth accumulation, and how this relationshiop varies by gender and race; and investigation of the sources of race differences in women's labor force transitions in the later years. He is also interested in how the institution of marriage affects trajectories of health and wealth. Matt Loyd M.A. in Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Predoctoral Trainee at CPC beginning in 2004 loydm@email.unc.edu Matt’s research interests include work and family responsibilities across the life course and family change. He is currently working on comparing gender ideology and the division of household labor in the U.S. and Japan; a second project is using data from the Add Health study to examine transitions out of cohabiting relationships among young adults.
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