Andrew J. Cherlin
Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy
Office: Mergenthaler 556
Office Hours: Monday, 2:00 - 4:00
Phone: 410.516.2370
Email: cherlin@jhu.edu
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
My research is in the sociology of families and public policy. I have published books and articles on topics such as marriage and divorce, children's well-being, intergenerational relations, family policy, and welfare policy. I am the principal investigator of the "Three-City Study," an interdisciplinary study of low-income children and their caregivers in the post-welfare-reform era. The study’s web site includes downloadable documents that describe the study and a searchable list of publications. The data from all three survey waves of our study are publicly available through Sociometrics and ICPSR.
I am also the author of a textbook in the sociology of the family, Public and Private Families: An Introduction (Sixth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010); and a companion reader, Public and Private Families: A Reader (Sixth edition, McGraw-Hill 2010).
My most recent book is The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009).
230.101 Introduction to Sociology
230.388 Sociology of the Family
230.614 Seminar on the Family
230.623 Hazard Models and Causal InferenceAndrew J.Cherlin. 2012. “Goode's World Revolution and Family Patterns: A Reconsideration at Fifty Years.” Population and Development Review 38: 577–607. (Read Online)
Andrew J. Cherlin. 2010. “Demographic Trends in the United States: A Review of Research in the 2000s.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 1-17. (Read Online)
Andrew J. Cherlin, Bianca Frogner, David Ribar, and Robert Moffitt. 2009. “Welfare Reform in the mid-2000s: How African-American and Hispanic Families in Three Cities are Faring.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621: 178-201. (Read Online)
Andrew J. Cherlin. 2005. “American Marriage in the Early Twenty-First Century,” The Future of Children 15 (no. 2): 33-55. (Read Online)
Andrew J. Cherlin. 2004. “The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 848-861. (PDF)
(This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of the Journal of Marriage and Family, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jomf or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)In the Season of Marriage, a Question. Why Bother?, New York Times, April 27,2013
Study: Record Number of People are Cohabiting, Morning Edition, NPR, April 4, 2013
Do Unmarried Poor Have Bad Values or Bad Jobs? Bloomberg View, December 25, 2012
"The Top Three Myths About Myths." The New York Times, August 27, 2012.
National Survey of Family Growth report, "First Marriages in the United States" CBS This Morning, March 22, 2012
"For GOP Presidential Candidates, Rules to Love By." The Washington Post, December 18, 2011.
"The Increasing Complexity of Family Life in the United States." Population Reference Bureau Online Discussion, September 8, 2011
“Think of the Children.” The New York Times on-line, Room for Debate page, December 19, 2010.
“For Many Americans, 'Marriage Is An Economic Decision,' Sociologist Says,” All Things Considered, NPR, September 29, 2010.
"The Generation That Can't Move on Up." The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2010 (with Bradford Wilcox)
“Not Your Mother’s Divorce.” The New York Times on-line, Room for Debate page, June 15, 2010.
"The Risks Men Take.” The New York Times on-line, Room for Debate page, June 4, 2010.
“The Housewife Anomaly.” The New York Times on-line, Room for Debate page, January 10, 2010.
(Reprinted in Paul Eschholtz and Alfred Rosa, eds., Subject & Strategy: A Writer’s Reader, New York, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011.)
"Married With Bankruptcy" The New York Times op-ed page, May 28, 2009
"Public Display: The Picture-Perfect American Family? These Days, It Doesn't Exist."The Washington Post, September 7, 2008, p. B01.