Larry Bumpass

Norman B. Ryder Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
2440 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-2182
Fax: (608) 262-8400
bumpass@ssc.wisc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest Statement
Bumpass has continued his research in three areas: the completion and release of a major data source for the profession (the third wave of the National Survey of Families and Households), research on family transitions and wellbeing in the U.S, and research on rapid family changes in Japan. Central themes include recent trends in cohabitation and in the time children spend in various family contexts, the stability of marital and cohabiting unions, and the comparison of family changes in East Asia to changes observed in the West. He is participating with colleagues at the East-West Center and Tokyo in the design and fielding of a followup of a survey in Japan conducted in 2000, as well as of a new cross-sectional survey. With Jim Raymo, and with the EWC team, his research on Japan has documented and contiuues to study increases in divorce and cohabitation, factors involved in the very low rates of marriage and childbearing, preferences for wive's employment, marital satisfaction, and family related attitudes, among other topics.

Selected Publications:
R. Rindfuss, M. K. Choe, L. Bumpass, and N.T. Tsuya. 2004 Social Networks and Family Change in Japan. American Sociological Review, 69:838-861.

Bumpass, L. 2002. Family-related attitudes, couple relationships, and union stability. in R. Lesthaeghe, ed. Meaning and Choice - Value Orientations and Life Cycle Decisions, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Netherlands. pp 161-184.

Bumpass, L and Hsien-Hen Lu. 2000. "Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children's Family Contexts in the U.S." Population Studies 54:29-41

Musick, Kelly. and L. Bumpass. 1999. "How do prior experiences in the family affect transitions to adulthood?" Allan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, and Michael J. Shanahan, eds. Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No work, no family, no future? Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers.

Bumpass, L. 1990. "What's happening to the family?: interactions between demographic and institutional change." Presidential Address, Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America. Demography 27:483-498.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Fertility/Families and Households
Data and Methodology