Nancy S. Landale's Information
POSITION TITLE: Director, Population Research Institute; and Professor of Sociology and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Family demography; immigration; race and ethnicity; morbidity and mortality.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Processes
Demographic Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Linking Individual, Family, and Population Health over Time
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1980-1984 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
1984-1985 Research Assistant, Health and Population Study Center, Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers, Seattle, WA
1983-1987 Predoctoral Research Associate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
1987-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago
1990-1998 Associate Professor of Sociology; Senior Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
2001-2002 Associate Director, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
1998-present Professor of Sociology and Demography; Senior Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
2006-present Director, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1983 Stuart S. Dodd Award for Outstanding Master's Student
1986 University of Washington Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship
1987 University of Washington Department of Sociology Outstanding Graduate Student Award
1987-1990 Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology
1993-1996 Dorothy Thomas Award Committee, Population Association of America
1996 Chair, Dorothy Thomas Award Committee, Population Association of America
1996-1998 Board of Directors, Population Association of America
1996-1998 Member, Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Families and Children, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
1998-2000 Council Representative (Population Section), American Sociological Association
1998-2000 Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
1999 Member, Postdoctoral Awards Committee, International Migration Section, Social Science Research Council
1999-2003 Board of Overseers, General Social Survey
2001 Distinction in the Social Sciences Award, College of Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University
2003-2005 Member, Panel on Transforming Our Common Destiny: Hispanics in the U.S., National Research Council, The National Academies
2005-2006 Committee on Population Statistics, Population Association of America
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Landale, N.S.
and
A. Guest
(1985).
"Constraints, Satisfaction and Residential Mobility: Speare's Model Reconsidered."
Demography 22(2):199-222.
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Billy, J.O.
,
N.S. Landale
and
S.D. McLaughlin
(1986).
"The Effect of Marital Status at First Birth on Marital Dissolution Among Adolescent Mothers."
Demography 23(3):329-349.
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McLaughlin, S.D.
,
W.R. Grady
,
J.O. Billy
,
N.S. Landale
and
L.D. Winges
(1986).
"The Effects of the Sequencing of Marriage and First Birth during Adolescence."
Family Planning Perspectives 18(1):12-18.
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Billy, J.O.
,
N.S. Landale
,
W.R. Grady
and
D.M. Zimmerle
(1988).
"Social and Psychological Consequences of Adolescent Sexual Behavior."
Social Psychology Quarterly 51(3):190-212.
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Guest, A.
,
N.S. Landale
and
J.C. McCann
(1989).
"Inter-Generational Occupational Mobility in the Late 19th Century United States."
Social Forces 68(2):351-378.
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Landale, N.S.
(1989).
"Agricultural Opportunity and Marriage: The U.S. at the Turn of the Century."
Demography 26(2):203-218.
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Landale, N.S.
(1989).
"Marriage and Agricultural Structure."
Rural Sociology 54(3):439-455.
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Landale, N.S.
(1989).
"Opportunity, Movement and Marriage: U.S. Farm Sons at the Turn of the Century."
Journal of Family History 14(4):365-386.
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Landale, N.S.
and
A. Guest
(1990).
"Generation, Ethnicity, and Occupational Opportunity in Late 19th Century America."
American Sociological Review 55(2):280-296.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R. Forste
(1991).
"Patterns of Entry into Cohabitation and Marriage Among Mainland Puerto Rican Women."
Demography 28(4):587-607.
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Landale, N.S.
and
S.E. Tolnay
(1991).
"Group Differences in Economic Opportunity and the Timing of Marriage: Blacks and Whites in the Rural South, 1910."
American Sociological Review 56(1):33-45.
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Landale, N.S.
and
K. Fennelly
(1992).
"Informal Unions Among Mainland Puerto Ricans: Cohabitation or an Alternative to Marriage."
Journal of Marriage and the Family 54(2):269-280.
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Landale, N.S.
and
K. Fennelly
(1992).
"Marriage and Cohabitation Among Puerto Rican Women in the Continental United States."
Proceedings of the IUSSP Conference on the Peopling of the Americas 3:173-194.
Landale, N.S.
and
S.E. Tolnay
(1992).
"Group Differences in Economic Opportunity and the Timing of Marriage: Blacks and Whites in the Rural South, 1910." In
South, S.J.
and
S.E. Tolnay
(Eds.)
, The Changing American Family: Sociological and Demographic Perspectives.
Boulder:
Westview Press.
Landale, N.S.
and
S.M. Hauan
(1992).
"The Family Life Course of Puerto Rican Children."
Journal of Marriage and the Family 54(4):912-924.
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Landale, N.S.
and
S.E. Tolnay
(1993).
"Generation, Ethnicity and Marriage: Historical Patterns in the Northern United States."
Demography 30(1):103-126.
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Landale, N.S.
(1994).
"Migration and the Latino Family: The Union Formation Behavior of Puerto Rican Women."
Demography 31(1):133-157.
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Loomis, L.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(1994).
"Nonmarital Cohabitation and Childbearing among Black and White American Women."
Journal of Marriage and the Family 56:949-962.
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Landale, N.S.
and
N.B. Ogena
(1995).
"Migration and Union Dissolution among Puerto Rican Women."
International Migration Review 29(3):671-692.
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Lichter, D.T.
and
N.S. Landale
(1995).
"Parental Work, Family Structure, and Poverty Among Latino Children."
Journal of Marriage & the Family 57(2):346-354.
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Landale, N.S.
and
S.M. Hauan
(1996).
"Migration and Premarital Childbearing among Puerto Rican Women."
Demography 33(4):429-442.
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Manning, W.D.
and
N.S. Landale
(1996).
"Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Role of Cohabitation in Premarital Childbearing."
Journal of Marriage & the Family 58:63-77.
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Booth, A.
,
A.C. Crouter
and
N.S. Landale
(Eds.)
(1997).
Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on US Immigrants.
Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Landale, N.S.
(1997).
"Immigration and the Family: An Overview." In
Booth, A.
,
A.C. Crouter
and
N.S. Landale
(Eds.)
, Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on U.S. Immigrants.
Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Landale, N.S.
and
D.T. Lichter
(1997).
"Geography and the Etiology of Poverty among Latino Children."
Social Science Quarterly 78(4):874-894.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(1997).
"Immigrant Legacies: Ethnicity, Generation, and Children's Familial and Economic Lives."
Social Science Quarterly 78(2):399-416.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(1997).
"In Search of the New Second Generation: Strategies for Identifying Second-Generation Children and Understanding Their Acquisition of English."
Sociological Perspectives 40(3):429-455.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
D. Llanes
(1998).
"Schooling, Work, and Idleness among Mexican and Non-Latino White Adolescents."
Social Science Research 27(4):457-480.
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Singley, S.G.
and
N.S. Landale
(1998).
"Incorporating Origin and Process in Migration-Fertility Frameworks: The Case of Puerto Rican Women."
Social Forces 76:1437-1464.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
B.K. Gorman
(1999).
"Immigration and Infant Health: Birth Outcomes of Immigrant and Native Women." In
Hernandez, D.J.
(Ed.)
, Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance.
Washington, D.C.:
National Academy Press.
(pp. 244-285)
Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
,
D. Llanes
and
B.K. Gorman
(1999).
"Does Americanization Have Adverse Effects on Health?: Stress, Health Habits, and Infant Health Outcomes among Puerto Ricans."
Social Forces 78(2):613-641.
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Hauan, S.M.
,
N.S. Landale
and
K.T. Leicht
(2000).
"Poverty and Work Effort among Urban Latino Men."
Work and Occupations 27(2):188-222.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
B.K. Gorman
(2000).
"Migration and Infant Death: Assimilation or Selective Migration among Puerto Ricans?."
American Sociological Review 65:888-909.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2000).
"From Austerity to Prosperity? Migration and Child Poverty among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans."
Demography 37(3):323-338.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
,
M. Inkley
and
B.K. Gorman
(2000).
"Prenatal Care among Puerto Ricans on the United States Mainland."
Social Science & Medicine 51(12):1723-1739.
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Gorman, B.K.
,
N.S. Landale
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2001).
"Poverty, Insurance, and Well-Baby Care among Mainland Puerto Rican Children."
Social Biology 48(1-2):67-85.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2001).
"Father Involvement in the Lives of Mainland Puerto Rican Children: Contributions of Nonresident, Cohabiting, and Married Fathers."
Social Forces 79(3):945-968.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2001).
"Migration, Social Support and Perinatal Health: An Origin-Destination Analysis of Puerto Rican Women."
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42(2):166-183.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
A.L. Davila
(2001).
"Poverty, Prenatal Care, and Infant Health in Puerto Rico."
Social Biology 48(1-2):44-66.
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Landale, N.S.
(2002).
"Contemporary Cohabitation: Food for Thought." In
Booth, A.
and
A.C. Crouter
(Eds.)
, Just Living Together: Implications of Cohabitation for Children, Families, and Social Policy.
Hillsdale, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
(pp. 33-40)
Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2002).
"White, Black or Puerto Rican? Racial Self-Identification among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans."
Social Forces 81:231-254.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2002).
"Nonresponse in Follow-Back Surveys of Ethnic Minority Groups: An Analysis of the Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study."
Maternal and Child Health Journal 6(1):49-58.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
T.S. Kenkre
(2002).
"Structure, Process, and Satisfaction With Obstetricians: An Analysis of Mainland Puerto Ricans."
Medical Care Research and Review 59(4):412-439.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
T.S. Kenkre
(2003).
"Income Allocation in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: The Case of Mainland Puerto Ricans."
Journal of Marriage and the Family 65(4):910-926.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2004).
"The Future of Marriage and Hispanics."
Journal of Marriage and Family 66(4):901-920.
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Gorman, B.K.
and
N.S. Landale
(2005).
"Premature Birth and Asthma among Young Puerto Rican Children."
Population Research and Policy Review 24(4):335-358.
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Landale, N.S.
(2005).
"The Changing Partnership Context of Parenthood: Where Do Researchers Go From Here?." In
Booth, A.
and
A.C. Crouter
(Eds.)
, The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries are Shrinking and What it Means.
Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
(pp. 171-180)
Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2005).
"What Does Skin Color Have To Do With Infant Health? An Analysis of Low Birth Weight Among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans."
Social Science and Medicine 61(2):379-391.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2005).
"Equal Access to Income and Union Dissolution among Mainland Puerto Ricans."
Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):173-190.
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Landale, N.S.
,
B.K. Gorman
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2006).
"Selective Migration and Infant Mortality among Puerto Ricans."
Maternal and Child Health Journal 10(4):351-360.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
C. Bradatan
(2006).
"Hispanic Families in the United States: Family Structure and Process in an Era of Family Change." In
Tienda, M.
and
F. Mitchell
(Eds.)
, Hispanics and the Future of America.
Washington, DC:
National Academy Press.
(pp. 138-178)
Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2007).
"Hispanic Families: Stability and Change."
Annual Review of Sociology 33:381-405.
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Schoen, R.
,
N.S. Landale
and
K. Daniels
(2007).
"Family Transitions in Young Adulthood."
Demography 44(4):807-820.
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Amato, P.R.
,
N.S. Landale
,
T. Habasevich
,
A. Booth
,
D.J. Eggebeen
,
R. Schoen
and
S.M. McHale
(2008).
"Precursors of Young Women's Family Formation Pathways."
Journal of Marriage and Family 70(5):1271-1286.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
M.J. Greif
(2008).
"From Puerto Rican to Pan-Ethnic in New York City."
Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(7):1315-1339.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2009).
"Why Do Immigrant Youths Who Never Enroll in U.S. Schools Matter? School Enrollment among Mexicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
Sociology of Education 82(3):240-266.
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Schoen, R.
,
N.S. Landale
,
K. Daniels
and
Y.A. Cheng
(2009).
"Social Background Differences in Early Family Behavior."
Journal of Marriage and Family 71(2):384-395.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R. Schoen
and
K. Daniels
(Forthcoming).
"Early Family Formation among White, Black, and Mexican American Women."
Journal of Family Issues.
NIHMSID: NIHMS72353??
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Landale, N.S.
,
S.M. McHale
and
A. Booth
(In Press).
Development of Hispanic Children in Immigrant Families: Challenges and Prospects.
Washington, DC:
The Urban Institute.
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