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Research Interests for Christina M. Gibson-Davis

Research Interests: Causes and consequences of marriage among low-income parents; the health and well-being of low-income children.

Representative Publications   (search)
  1. Rackin, H. and Gibson-Davis, C.M., The role of pre- and postconception relationships for first time parents, Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 74 (2012), pp. 526-539 [abs].
  2. Gibson-Davis, C.M., Mothers but not wives: The increasing lag between nonmarital births and marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 73 (2011), pp. 1-15 [abs].
  3. Ananat, E., Gassman-Pines, A., and Gibson-Davis, C.M, The Effect of Plant Closings on Children's Educational Achievement, in Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, edited by G. J. Duncan, R. Murnane (2011), pp. 299-313.
  4. Gibson-Davis, C.M. and Gassman-Pines, A., Early Childhood Family Structure and Mother-Child Interactions: Variation by Race and Ethnicity, Developmental Psychology, vol. 46 no. 1 (2010), pp. 151-164 [abs].
  5. Gibson-Davis, C.M, Money, Marriage, and Children: Testing the Financial Expectations and Family Formation Theory, Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 71 (2009), pp. 146-161 [abs].
  6. Gibson-Davis, C.M, The Effect of Family Structure on Maternal and Paternal Parenting, Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 70 (2008), pp. 452–465 [abs].
  7. Gibson-Davis, C.M, Expectations and the Economic Bar to Marriage Among Low Income Couples, in Unmarried Couples With Children, edited by P. England and K. Edin (2007), pp. 84-103.
  8. Gibson-Davis, C.M., Edin, K. & McLahanan, S, High Hopes but Even Higher Expectations: The Retreat from Marriage Among Low-Income Couples, Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 67 (2005), pp. 1301-1312 [abs].
  9. Gibson-Davis, C.M. and Brooks-Gunn, J, Couples’ Immigration, and Ethnicity as Determinants of Breastfeeding, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96 no. 4 (2006), pp. 641-646 [641[abs].

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