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Shelley K Irving's Information

Shelley K Irving

Department Affiliation:  Sociology
Education: M.A., Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005
B.A., Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003
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POSITION TITLE:  Graduate Student, Sociology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Inequality and stratification (poverty, social welfare, welfare reform, social policy); family (work and family, marriage, cohabitation, divorce, family well-being, family policy); demography (immigration, race/ethnicity, population policy)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

Amato, P.R. and S.K. Irving (2006). "Historical Trends in Divorce in the United States." In Fine, M.A. and J.H. Harvey (Eds.) , Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. (pp. 41-57)

De Jong, G.F. , D.R. Graefe , S.K. Irving and T. St. Pierre (2006). "Measuring State TANF Policy Variations and Change after Reform." Social Science Quarterly 87(4):755-781. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Graefe, D.R. , G.F. De Jong and S.K. Irving (2006). "The Whole is the Sum of Its Parts: Theory, Technique, and Measurement Science Applied to TANF Rules." Social Science Quarterly 87(4):818-827. |Journal Home Page|

Irving, S.K. (2008). "State Welfare Rules, TANF Exits, and Geographic Context: Does Place Matter?." Rural Sociology 73(4):605-630. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

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