Assistant Professor
Director, Children in Contemporary Society Certificate Program

Education:

• PhD Northwestern University - 2001
• M.A. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - 2001
• B.A. Bates College, Lewiston, ME - 1992

Teaching Fall 2008:

• CCS 190S.01, RESEARCH SEMINAR: CCS CERT Synopsis
  Bivins 109, W 06:00 PM-07:15 PM
• PUBPOL 350.01, SOCIAL POLICY
  Rubenstein 149, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Gibson-Davis, C.M. (2008). The Effect of Family Structure on Maternal and Paternal Parenting. Journal of Marriage and Family.  [abs]


2. Gibson-Davis, C.M. (Submitted, 2008). Money, Marriage, and Children: Testing the Family Formation and Financial Expectations Theory.  [abs]


3. C.M. Gibson-Davis (Submitted, 2008). Going Underground, but Not to Wed: The Association between Fathers’ Informal Employment and Marriage.  [abs]


4. C.M. Gibson-Davis (Submitted, 2008). The Associations between Complex Family Structures and Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes in Middle Childhood.  [abs]


5. Gibson-Davis, C.M. (2007). Expectations and the Economic Bar to Marriage Among Low Income Couples. In P. England and K. Edin (Ed.).  Unmarried Couples With Children (pp. 84-103).


6. Gibson-Davis, C.M. and Brooks-Gunn, J. (2007). The Association between Maternal Relationship Status and Breastfeeding Behaviors. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 1107-1117. [x]  [abs]


7. Gibson-Davis, C.M. and Brooks-Gunn, J. (April, 2006). Couples’ Immigration, and Ethnicity as Determinants of Breastfeeding. American Journal of Public Health, 96(4), 641-646. [641]  [abs]


8. Gibson-Davis, C.M. and Foster, E.M. (2006). A Cautionary Tale: Using Propensity Scores to Estimate the Impact of Food Stamps on Food Insecurity. Social Service Review, 80, 93-126.  [abs]


9. C.M. Gibson-Davis and Brooks-Gunn, J. (2006). Breastfeeding and the Verbal Ability of Three-Year-Olds in a Multi-City Sample. Pediatrics, 118, e1444 - e1451. [e1444]  [abs]


10. Gibson-Davis, C.M., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L., and Duncan, G.J (2005). Does Employment Protect Women From Domestic Violence. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1149-1168.  [abs]


11. Gibson-Davis, C. M., Edin, K. & McLahanan, S. (2005). High Hopes but Even Higher Expectations: The Retreat from Marriage Among Low-Income Couples. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1301-1312.  [abs]

1. National Poverty Center Summer Workshops: Qualitative Research on Urban Poverty, University of Michigan, June 14, 2004
2. Families and Poverty Research Conference, Bingham Young University, School of Family Life, March 11, 2004
3. Workshop on Participation in Public Programs: Individual Choice and Social Structure, University of Washington, Department of Social Work, January 09, 2004

1. Population Association of America, March 21, 2007
2. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2005

Grant Support

• Marriage and Parenthood in the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults, William T. Grant Foundation, 07/01/2007 - 06/30/2012.      
• Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research, EPA, 01/01/2007 - 12/31/2011.      
• Social Science Research Institute Faculty Fellow, 09/01/2006 - 05/30/2007.      
• Provost Common Fund, Duke University, 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2006.      
• Duke Center for Geospatial Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 09/29/2004 - 00/00/0000.      

Curriculum Vitae