Lawrence Wu

Lawrence Wu

Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research; Deputy Director, Institute for Human Development and Social Change
Ph.D. Stanford 1987 (Sociology); A.B. Harvard 1980 (Sociology and Applied Mathematics).

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Research Interests:

Family; poverty; social demography; life course; methods for studying social change.

Fellowships/Honors:

Chair, Population Section, American Sociological Association (2007-2008); Series Co-Editor, Analytical Methods for Social Research, Cambridge University Press (2003-present); Book Review Editor, Sociological Methods and Research (2000-present); Nomination Committee, Population Association of America (2006-2007); Chair, Technical Review Committee, National Longitudinal Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics (2002-2006); Editorial Board, Contexts (2003-2005); Chair, Quantitative Methods Section, American Sociological Association (2003-2005); Board of Directors, Population Association of America (2002-2005); Member, Population Research Subcommittee, Initial Review Group, National Institute of Child and Human Development (2002-2003); Board of Overseers, Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1996-2002); Faculty Scholar, William T. Grant Foundation (1992-1998); Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1991-1992).

Selected Works:

Wu, Lawrence L. 2008. "Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility in U.S. Women," Demography, 45(1) 193–207, February 2008. Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2003. "Event History Models for Life Course Analysis" in Jeylan Mortimer and Michael Shanahan (Eds.), Handbook of the Life Course, Plenum. Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2002. "Fertility of Single and Cohabiting Women" in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L., and Barbara Wolfe (Eds.). 2001. Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility, Russell Sage Foundation.

Wu, Lawrence L., Larry Bumpass and Kelly Musick. 2001. "Historical and Life Course Trajectories of Nonmarital Childbearing" in L. Wu and B. Wolfe (Eds.), Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility, Russell Sage Foundation.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2000. "Some Comments on `Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology: Review and Prospect,'" Sociological Methods and Research 29(1) 41-64. Click here to read.

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