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Sharon Sassler's visit has been rescheduled:  Professor Sharon Sassler from Cornell University will be visiting Queens College on Monday, March 17th. We hope you can join us!  

*SHARON SASSLER, CORNELL UNIVERSITY*

*Monday, MARCH 17, 2014*

Sharon Sassler, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University visits Queens College

A social demographer, Dr. Sassler's research examines factors shaping the activities of young adults and their life course transitions into school and work, relationships, and parenthood, and how these transitions vary by gender, race/ethnicity, and social class.

12:15-1:30 pm  Lunchtime Sociology seminar 

Title: "Taking One’s Time?  Timing to Cohabitation and Union Outcomes"

Date & Time: Monday, March 17th (12:15-1:30 pm)

Location: Powdermaker Hall 351


ABSTRACT: Some research suggests that young adults “slow down” the tempo of relationship progression. Yet little is known about how rapidly sexual relationships progress into shared living, whether this progression differs by social class, or if initial stages in relationship progression are associated with subsequent union transitions. We use the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, focusing on women ages 18 to 36 who were in a sexual relationship within the previous year, to assess what proportion entered cohabiting unions, and how rapidly shared living arrangements are formed. Preliminary results reveal an educational hierarchy in the tempo to shared living; the least educated (LTHS) women transition into shared living several months sooner than do women with a high school degree. College educated women, on average, take more than twelve months longer to enter cohabiting unions than high school graduates. Rapid duration to cohabitation is negatively associated with marital transitions.


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Holly E. Reed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, MA in Data Analytics and Applied Social Research  madasr.qcsociology.org Department of Sociology, Queens College qcsociology.org

Faculty Associate, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research www.cuny.edu/cidr

City University of New York (CUNY)

phone: 718-997-2828
fax: 718-997-2820
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website: qcsociology.org/people/faculty/holly-reed/


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