Pamela J Smock
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Pamela Smock is Professor of Sociology and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center. Her research interests lie at the intersection of demography and inequality. Her research focuses on changing family patterns in the U.S., the economic consequences of divorce and marriage for women and men, cohabitation, nonresident fatherhood, single-mother families, the motherhood wage penalty, and social class and racial-ethnic variation in family patterns.
Professor Smock’s work has been published in leading sociology and demography journals including American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family and Social Forces. Currently, Professor Smock is examining the intersection of relationship biographies, including older life-long single adults, and late-life economic well-being – and the role of the structure of Social Security benefits in maintaining economic disparities. Another recent project uses an intersectional lens to examine the economic fallout of family disruption for Latinx, white, and Black men and women (see paper here) forthcoming in Journal of Family and Economic Issues).
Smock has served as Editor-in-Chief of Demography, the flagship journal of the Population Association of America, and Deputy Editor of Journal of Marriage and Family. She was President of the Association of Population Centers and has held other elected positions in the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association. Dr. Smock is an elected member of the honorary society Sociological Research Association.
- Deborah Carr, Leping Wang, Pamela J Smock. 2024. Gender differences in the economic consequences of life-long singlehood among older white U.S. adults. Journal of Marriage and Family 86(4):1053-1074.
- Smock, Pamela J, Schwartz, Christine R. 2020. The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change. Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):9-34.
- Pamela J Smock. 2020. Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: A Comment on Rosenfeld and Roesler. Journal of Marriage and Family 83(1):260-267.
- Pamela J Smock, Manning, Wendy D., Fettro, Marshal Neal. 2019. Cohabitation and Marital Expectations Among Single Millennials in the U.S.. Population Research and Policy Review 38(3):327-346.
- Wise, Akilah , Arline T Geronimus, Pamela J Smock. 2017. Best of Intentions: A structural analysis of the association between socioeconomic disadvantage and unintended pregnancy in a sample of mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). Women's Health Issues 27(1):5-13. PMCID: PMC5219931.
- Smock, Pamela J, Kroeger, Rhiannon A. 2014. Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families :217-235.
- Smock, Pamela J, Dorius, Cassandra, Manning, Wendy , Cooksey, Elizabeth . 2014. Cohabitation Expectations Among Young Adults in the United States: Do They Match Behavior?. Population Research and Policy Review 33(2):287-305. PMCID: PMC4136526.
- Smock, Pamela J, Hayford, Sarah , Guzzo, Karen . 2014. The Decoupling of Marriage and Parenthood? Trends in the Timing of Marital First Births, 1945-2002. Journal of Marriage and Family 76(3):520-538. PMCID: PMC4002169.
- Smock, Pamela J, (Lavelle) Pavelle, Bridget . 2012. Divorce and women's risk of health insurance loss. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53(4):413-431. PMCID: PMC3511592.
- Smock, Pamela J, Hoelter, Lynette F, Bachrach, Christine A. 2011. Social Class and the Timing and Context of Childbearing. Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action :87-110.