National Center for Marriage Research

Postdoctoral Fellowship Awarded, 2009-2010 Academic Year

The NCFMR is pleased to welcome Dr. Sarah Halpern-Meekin as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year. The fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an outstanding young scholar to perform research and receive training in residence at the NCFMR.

Dr. Halpern-Meekin earned her Ph.D. in 2009 from Harvard University, and her dissertation is titled “A Relationship Legacy: The Intergenerational Transmission of Marriage and Divorce.” She is currently collecting data from Oklahoma’s high school marriage education program. Sarah has two published papers in the Journal of Marriage and Family; one paper focuses on the influence of premarital cohabitation on marital quality and the second paper examines the heterogeneity in two parent families and adolescent well-being. Dr. Halpern-Meekin will collaborate with one of the NCFMR's faculty research affiliates, Drs. Wendy Manning and Susan Brown.

Disclaimer: This project is supported by the National Center for Family & Marriage Research, which is funded by a cooperative agreement (1 U01 AE000001-01) between the
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Bowling Green State University.
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