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Family Research Scholars Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


M.V. Lee Badgett, Associate Professor, Economics Department
545-0159, lbadgett@econs.umass.edu

"Job Gendering: Occupational Choice and the Marriage Market," M. V. Lee Badgett and Nancy Folbre, April Vol. 42(2), 2003, Industrial Relations, pp. 270-298.

Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men, University of Chicago Press, 2001.

"Wedding Bell Blues: The Income Tax Consequences of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage,": James Alm, M. V. Lee Badgett, and Leslie A. Whittington, National Tax Journal, Vol. LIII, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 201-214.

Sanjiv Gupta, Assistant Professor of Sociology
577-1773, sangupta@soc.umass.edu

"Moving Out: Transition to Nonresidence among Resident Fathers in the U.S., 1968-1997." Journal of Marriage and Family, 66:627-38, 2004. With Pamela J. Smock and Wendy D. Manning.

"Cohabitation in Contemporary North America: Implications for Family Structure." In Just Living Together: Implications for Children, Families, and Public Policy, Alan Booth and Ann C. Crouter (eds.), Lawrence-Erlbaum, 2002. With Pamela J. Smock.

Sanjiv Gupta. 1999. "The effects of transitions in marital status transitions on men's performance of housework," Journal of Marriage and the Family, v. 61: pp. 700-711.

Pamela J. Smock, Wendy Manning and Sanjiv Gupta. 1999. "The economic advantage of marriage and disadvantage of divorce for women in the United States," American Sociological Review, v. 64: pp. 794-812

Joya Misra, Associate Professor of Sociology and Center for Public Policy and Administration
545-5969, misra@soc.umass.edu

Joya Misra and Leslie King. 2004. "Gender and State Policies." In Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and Mildred's Schwartz's Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Joya Misra. 2003. "Women as Agents in Welfare State Development: A Cross-National Analysis of Family Allowance Adoption." Socio-Economic Review. 1: 185-214.

Joya Misra, Stephanie Moller, and Marina Karides. 2003. "Envisioning Dependency: Changing Media Depictions of Welfare Recipients in the 20th Century." Social Problems. 50(4): 482-504.

Joya Misra. 1998. "Mothers or Workers? The Value of Unpaid Labor: Women and the Emergence of Family Allowance Policy."Gender & Society. 12:376-399.

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Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Associate Professor of Anthropology
545-1379, leidy@anthro.umass.edu

Sievert, L.L., 2006, Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective, Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Sievert L.L., Goode-Null S. (in press) "Musculoskeletal pain among women of menopausal age in Puebla", Mexico. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 20(2):

Sievert, L.L. 2004., Vidovic M, Horak H, Abel M., "Age and Symptom experience at menopause in the Selska Valley", Slovenia. Menopause 11(2):

Sievert, L.L. 2003., "Espinosa-Hernandez G. Attitudes toward menopause in relation to symptom experience in Puebla, Mexico". Women and Health, 38(2):93-106.

Sievert, L.L. 2003., "The medicalization of female fertility: points of significance for the study of menopause". Collegium Anthropologicum 27(1):67-78.

Richard Tessler, Professor, Department of Sociology
545-5980, tessler@sadri@umass.edu

"A Study of Bi-Cultural Socialization of Adopted Chinese Children." Academics in China, Summer:191-98, 2004. With G. Gamache.

"Mother-Daughter Relationships among Chinese and Romanian Adoptees." International Journal of Child & Family Welfare, 1:26-43, 2004. With G. Adams, L. Houlihan and V. Groza.

West Meets East, with Gail Gamache and Liming Liu. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, CT,. 1999.

"The Kindred Bonds of Mentally Ill Homeless Persons," with G Gamache, P. H. Rossi, et al, The New England Journal of Public Policy, Spring 1992, pp. 265-280.

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