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Nicholas Holm Wolfinger

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Background

Nicholas Holm Wolfinger (born 1966) is Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah.[1]

Wolfinger received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. at UCLA, both in sociology. His father is the late political scientist Raymond E. Wolfinger. Research

Wolfinger’s research interests include marriage and divorce, poverty, religion, and higher education. Much of his research is based on the analysis of data from large national surveys. He has also conducted qualitative research based on interviews and surveys, and has published methodological work on both quantitative and qualitative research methods.[2]

Divorce

Wolfinger’s early research examines how divorce runs in families. One noteworthy finding is that the rate of divorce transmission between generations, the propensity to divorce as the result of growing up in a divorced family, diminished greatly between 1973 and 1996.[3] In other words, as the divorce rate increased, its rate of transmission declined. This finding suggests that as parental divorce becomes more normal, it becomes less damaging to children.

Elsewhere Wolfinger provides the definitive account of how parental divorce affects offspring marriage timing. Over 25 previous studies on the subject offered discrepant findings: most showed that parental divorce made early marriage more likely, but others reported a contrary finding. Still others showed no relationship between parental divorce and offspring marriage. Wolfinger’s results indicate that parental divorce increases the chances of teenage marriage, but past age twenty makes marriage about a third less likely.[4]

Wolfinger’s research on the intergenerational transmission of divorce was published in the monograph Understanding Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (Cambridge University Press, 2005), the first book-length treatment on the subject.[5]

Higher Education

The Do Babies Matter? project was a collaboration with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, both of the University of California, Berkeley that explored how marriage and children differentially affect men and women's academic careers. National panel data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients showed that family formation completely explains women's fortunes on the academic job market; indeed, single women without young children are more likely than men to obtain tenure-track employment.[6] Marriage and children had smaller effects elsewhere in the academic life cycle.

This research ultimately convinced the ten campus University of California system to change their family accommodation policies, and was summarized in the book Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press, 2013).[7]

Religion

In collaboration with W. Bradford Wilcox (University of Virginia), Wolfinger explored the relationship between marriage, relationship quality, and religious participation. They found that attendance at religious services has broad salutary effects on relationships. For instance, frequent church attendance is a stronger predictor of marriage subsequent to nonmarital childbirth than any other social or demographic variable.[8] In 2016, Wolfinger and Wilcox published a book on their research, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (Oxford University Press).[9] It drew on six national data sets, in-depth interviews with 85 clergy and parishioners, and a year of ethnographic fieldwork.

Economics of Single Motherhood

For twenty years Wolfinger has book studying trends in the economics of single motherhood with Matthew McKeever (Haverford College). They analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Current Population Survey to show how demographic shifts and changing job skills have affected single mothers’ incomes. Their research emphasizes the contrast between divorcées and women who give birth out of wedlock, two populations who differ in virtually every measurable way. For instance, never-married mothers have far lower returns to their human capital than do married or divorce women. In addition to articles and chapters, Wolfinger and McKeever are working on a book under contract with Oxford University Press.

Publications

Wolfinger’s books include Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones; Springer, 2005), Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden; Rutgers University Press, 2013), and, most recently, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox; Oxford University Press, 2016). Wolfinger is also the author of about 40 scholarly articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic[10], National Review[11], Huffington Post[12], and elsewhere.

In the Media

Wolfinger’s work has been covered by all major national media outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. Selected Bibliography Books [1] (Cambridge University Press, 2005) [2] (edited, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones; Springer, 2005) [3] (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden [4] (with W. Bradford Wilcox; Oxford University Press, 2016 Popular Articles "How the Church Helps Black Men Flourish in America" (with W. Bradford Wilcox), The Atlantic, 2016 "For Female Scientists, There's No Good Time to Have Children" The Atlantic, 2013 "What is a Single Mother?" National Review, 2015 "Why I'm a Liberal" Huffington Post, 2016 “How I Survived the Title IX Star Chamber” Quillette, 2017 Jump up^ Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages Jump up^ Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda Jump up^ Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower Jump up^ Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos

External Links

Wolfinger’s personal web page

Wolfinger’s University of Utah faculty profile

Wolfinger’s ResearchGate page (including full text of scholarly papers)

Wolfinger’s Google Scholar page

References[edit]


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  1. "NICHOLAS H WOLFINGER - Research - Faculty Profile - The University of Utah". faculty.utah.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  2. "NICHOLAS H WOLFINGER - Research - Faculty Profile - The University of Utah". faculty.utah.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  3. Wolfinger, Nicholas H. (August 1999). "Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce". Demography. 36 (3): 415. doi:10.2307/2648064. ISSN 0070-3370.
  4. Wolfinger, N. H. (2003-09-01). "Parental Divorce and Offspring Marriage: Early or Late?". Social Forces. 82 (1): 337–353. doi:10.1353/sof.2003.0108. ISSN 0037-7732.
  5. Wolfinger, Nicholas H. (2005). Understanding the Divorce Cycle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511499616. ISBN 9780511499616. Search this book on
  6. Wolfinger, Nicholas H.; Mason, Mary Ann; Goulden, Marc (July 2008). "Problems in the Pipeline: Gender, Marriage, and Fertility in the Ivory Tower". The Journal of Higher Education. 79 (4): 388–405. doi:10.1080/00221546.2008.11772108. ISSN 0022-1546.
  7. "Do Babies Matter?". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  8. "Then comes marriage? Religion, race, and marriage in urban America". Social Science Research. 36 (2): 569–589. 2007-06-01. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.02.005. ISSN 0049-089X.
  9. Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2016-02-01. ISBN 9780195394221. Search this book on
  10. Wolfinger, Nicholas H. "Nicholas H. Wolfinger". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  11. "Nicholas H. Wolfinger | National Review". National Review. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  12. "Nicholas H. Wolfinger | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-09-19.