Fortunes of American Children in Historical Perspective,” Conference in “Chaos and Children’s Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms,” Cornell University, October 2007. Invited speaker, “Religion and Healthy Marriages among Low-Income Couples.” Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 2007. Invited speaker (with Sharon Sassler and Rachel Dunifon), “Children of Military Families: Adolescent Development and the Transition to Adulthood.” Conference on “Military Service, Social (Dis)Advantage, and the Life Course,” Maxwell School, Syracuse University, October 2007. Invited speaker, “Rural Poverty: Sources, Consequences and Solutions,” Cornell Summer Institute on Rural Schools: Preparing rural Youth for the Future,” Cornell University, July 2007 Invited speaker (with Julie Carmalt), “Religion and Marital Quality among Low-Income Couples.” Conference on “The Impact of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations on the Lives of Low Income Families,” National Poverty Center, Washington DC, June 2007. Invited speaker, “Serial Cohabitation: Implications for Marriage, Divorce, and Public Policy,” Conference on “Rethinking Relationships: Advancing Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Non-marital Unions in a Global Context.” Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, April 2007. Invited discussant, Conference on “Ten Years After: Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of Welfare Reform on Child, Families, Welfare, and Work,” University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, Lexington, KY, April, 2007. Invited speaker, “Marriage and Public Policy: Union Formation among Low-Income Women,” Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, March 2007. Keynote speaker, Annual AKD lecture, “Public Sociology: Asking Questions that Matter,” Mississippi State University, March 2007. Invited speaker, “Marriage Promotion and Public Policy: Is Marriage a Panacea for Low Income Mothers? Department of Human Development, Cornell University, February 2007. Invited speaker, “Segregation and Racial Exclusion in Town America,” Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, February 2007. Invited speaker, “Marriage and Public Policy: Formation among Low-Income Women,” Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, SUNY, January, 2007.
Interactions," Cornell University, August 1999. Invited speaker, "The Changing Faces of America's Kin: The Tools of Family Demography." Family Research Consortium Workshop, Pennsylvania State University, July 1999. Invited speaker, “Threats to the Quality of Children=s Environments,” Indiana Family Impact Seminar on “Healthy Environments for Preschool/Young Children,” Indianapolis, IN, February 1999. Invited speaker (with Blackwell, Debra L.). 1998. “Mate Selection Processes Among Married and Unmarried Couples: Findings from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.” Paper presented at the NSFG Research Conference, Hyattsville, Maryland, Oct. 13-14. Invited participant, Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Workshop in “Problems of the Low Income Population," University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1998 Invited speaker, “Economic Restructuring and Union Formation: Changing Marriage Markets in a Changing Economy” (with Diane McLaughlin and David Ribar), Conference on “The Ties that Bind: Patterns of Marriage and Cohabitation,” National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Washington, DC., June 1998. Invited Speaker (with Blackwell, L.), “Mate Selection Processes Among Married and Unmarried Couples: Findings from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.” NSFG Research Conference, Hyattsville, Maryland, Oct. 13-14, 1998. Invited participant, Conference on Issues and the American Community Survey,” U.S. Bureau of the Census and Westat, Alexandria, VA, May 1998. Invited speaker, “Welfare Reform and the Social Capital of Poor Children” (with Debra Blackwell), Conference on “Social Capital: Building Disciplines, Policies, and Communities,” Michigan State University, April 1998. Invited speaker, “Children in the Crossfire: Reforming Welfare or Reforming the Poor?” Public Lecture Series on “Children, Families and the Economy: New Challenges, New Research” Family Research and Policy Initiative, University of Nebraska, March, 1998. Invited presentation (with Diane K. McLaughlin, Erica L. Gardner, and Heidi Melz), “The Quality of Small-Area Population Estimates from the American Community Survey: The Case of Fulton County, Pennsylvania.” Conference on the American Community Survey, Washington, D.C., March 1998. Invited speaker, “TANF: The Basic Facts,” Conference on Welfare Reform in