Elizabeth Thomson
4321 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-2182
Fax: (608) 262-8400
thomson@ssc.wisc.edu
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Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Thomson, Elizabeth, Maria Winkler-Dworak, Martin Spielauer and Alexia Prskawetz. 2012. Union Stability as an Engine of Fertility? A Micro-simulation Model for France. Demography 49(1):175-195.
Thomson, Elizabeth, and Sara S. McLanahan. 2012. Reflections on “Family Structure and Child Well-Being: Economic Resources vs. Parental Socialization”. Social Forces 91(1):45–53.
Holland, Jennifer A., and Elizabeth Thomson. 2011. Stepfamily Childbearing in Sweden: Quantum and Tempo Effects, 1950-99. Population Studies 65(1):115-128.
Rijken, Arieke, and Elizabeth Thomson. 2011. His and Her Relationship Quality: Effects on Childbearing. Social Science Research 40:485-497.
Kennedy, Sheela, and Elizabeth Thomson. 2010. Children’s Experiences of Family Disruption in Sweden: Differentials by Parent Education over Three Decades. Demographic Research 23:479-508.
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington, 1979
Affiliations:
Sociology
Center for Demography and Ecology
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Gender Program
Institute for Research on Poverty
Population Health Sciences
Research Interest Statement:
Thomson is a family researcher with a joint appointment at the UW-Madison and Stockholm University, Sweden, where she directs the Demographic Unit (www.suda.su.se) and the Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (www.su.se/spade). Her research uses both large-scale comparative surveys and Nordic data registers. Current papers include studies on micro-simulation of the consequences of union instability for fertility in France; educational differences in the family life course in France, Sweden and the U.S.; educational variation and change in children’s experience of parental separation in Sweden; educational differences in family values and union formation among young Swedish adults; the validity of self-reported housing biographies in Sweden; and the relationship between partners’ relationship quality and childbearing in the Netherlands.