Daniel Lichter |
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Biographical Statement:
Dr. Daniel T. Lichter is the Ferris family professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management, and Professor of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the Cornell faculty in August 2005. He has previously taught at Pennsylvania State University (1981-1999) and The Ohio State University (1999-2005).
Dr. Lichter has published widely on demographic topics related to family and welfare policy, including studies of children's changing living arrangements and poverty, cohabitation and marriage among unwed mothers, and welfare incentive effects on the family. His recent work has focused on patterns of interracial marriage and cohabitation in the United States, on the new destinations of recent immigrants, especially Hispanics moving to less densely-settled rural areas, and on changing patterns of concentrated poverty and racial segregation among racial and ethnic minorities. |
Current Professional Activities:
Dr. Lichter is Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center at Cornell University. Lichter teaches courses on poverty and public policy, marriage and family, and population studies.
He is the President-elect of the Rural Sociological Society, and is past president of the Association of Population Centers. He is former editor of Demography, the flagship journal of the Population Association of America (PAA). Lichter currently serves as a member of the research advisory board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and is a policy fellow of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. |
Courses Taught:
- PAM 2030: Population and Public Policy
- PAM 6210: Poverty, Public Policy, and the Life Course
- PAM 6060: Demographic Techniques
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Education:
- PhD 1981 - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology
- MA 1977 - Iowa State University, Sociology
- BA 1975 - South Dakota State University, Sociology
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Current Research Activities:
Much of Lichter's research focuses on welfare incentives on the family, and on patterns of marriage and cohabitation in American society over the past 30 years. His recent papers have examined the implications of state marriage promotion policies, i.e., questions about whether low-income women face significant barriers to healthy marriages, whether they form marriages that last, and whether they marry men who can provide a route from poverty. He also has published several papers on interracial marriage. Intermarriage is often used as a measure of social distance between groups. His work shows that, for the first time in recent memory, intermarriage rates between whites and Hispanics and Asians declined, even among native-born minorities, a fact which suggests growing racial and ethnic balkanization in America.
His other demographic work has focused on poverty, especially among children and in rural areas. His recent papers on poverty trends center around the implications of changing patterns of family structure (especially the rise in female-headed families) and maternal employment on poverty rates among economically vulnerable and historically disadvantaged groups. For example, Lichter has studied trends in income inequality among children, while documenting the emergence of two distinctive economic tracks of America's children as they make their way into adulthood. He also has documented the changing spatial concentration of poverty in rural areas (i.e., rural "ghettos"), while providing national estimates of the percentage of poor minority children who live in high-poverty areas (e.g., Indian reservations, Black Belt counties of the South).
Finally, Lichter is studying the new destinations of immigrants to America, especially the movement of Mexican immigrants to rural areas. He has provided the first national estimates of racial residential segregation in Hispanic "boom towns" in the Midwest and South, focusing on the spatial assimilation and economic incorporation of the new immigrants into local communities. |
Selected Publications:
Lichter, D.T., R.N. Turner, and S. Sassler. 2010. "National Estimates of the Rise in Serial Cohabitation." Social Science Research 38: forthcoming.
Lichter, D.T., D. Parisi, M. Taquino, and S.M. Grice. 2010. "Residential Segregation in New Hispanic Destinations: Cities, Suburbs, and Rural Communities Compared." Social Science Research 38:forthcoming.
Lichter, D.T., and E. Wethington. 2009. "Chaos and the Diverging Fortunes of American Children: A Historical Perspective." Chapter 2 in Chaos and Its Influence on Children's Development: An Ecological Perspective (Eds., Gary W. Evans and Theodore D. Wachs). Washington, DC: American Psychological Assciation.
Crowley, M., & D.T. Lichter. 2009. "Social Disorganization in New Latino Destinations?" Rural Sociology 74(4): forthcoming.
DeLeone, F.Y., D.T. Lichter, and R.M. Strawderman. (2009). "Decomposing Trends in Nonmarital Fertility Among Latinas." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 41(September):167-172.
Lichter, D.T., and K.M. Johnson. (2009). "Immigrant Gateways and Hispanic Migration to New Destinations." International Migration Review 43:496-518.
Lichter, D.T., and J. H. Carmalt. (2009). "Religion and Marital Quality among Low-Income Couples." Social Science Research 38:168-187.
Lichter, D.T., and W. Brown. (2009). "Race, Immigration, and the Future of Marriage." In H. E. Peters and C.M.K. Dush (eds.), Marriage and Families: Complexities and Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.
Sassler, S., A. Cunningham, and D.T. Lichter. (2009). "Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship Quality." Journal of Family Issues 30:757-786.
Lichter, D.T., and Z-C. Qian. (2008). "Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course." Journal of Marriage and Family 70:861-878. [abstract]
Giroux, S.C., P.M. Eloundou-Enyegue, and D.T. Lichter. (2008). "Reproductive Inequality in Sub-Sahran Africa: Differentials versus Concentration." Studies in Family Planning 39:187-198. [abstract]
Johnson, K.M., and D.T. Lichter. (2008). "Natural Increase: A New Source of Population Growth in Emerging Hispanic Destinations." Population and Development Review 34:327-346. [abstract]
Lichter, D.T., D. Parisi, M. Taquino, and B. Beaulieu. (2008). "Race and the Micro-Scale Concentration of Poverty." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1:51-67. [abstract]
Graefe, D.R., and Lichter, D.T. (2008). "Marriage Patterns among Unwed Mothers: Before and After PRWORA." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28:479-49. [abstract]
Lichter, D.T., D. Parisi, S.M. Grice, and M. Taquino. (2007). "National Estimates of Racial Segregation in Rural and Small-Town America." Demography 44: 563-581. [abstract]
Graefe, D.R., and Lichter, D.T. (2007). "When Unwed Mothers Marry: The Marital and Cohabiting Partners of Mid-Life Women." Journal of Family Issues 28:595-622. [abstract]
Lichter, D.T., Brown, J.B., Qian, Z-C., and Carmalt J. (2007). "Marital Assimilation Among Hispanics: Evidence of Declining Cultural and Economic Assimilation?" Social Science Quarterly 88(3): 745-765. [abstract]
Lichter, D.T., and Graefe, D.R. (2007). "Men and Marriage Promotion: Who Marries Unwed Mothers?" Social Service Review 81(3): 397-421.
Lichter, D.T., and Johnson, K.M. (2007). "The Changing Spatial Concentration of America's Rural Poor Population." Rural Sociology 72(3): 331-358. [abstract]
Lichter, D.T., Parisi, D., Grice, S.M., and Taquino, M. (2007). "Municipal Underbounding: Racial Exclusion in Small Southern Towns." Rural Sociology, 72:47-68.
Qian, Z-C, and Lichter, D.T. (2007). "Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation: Evaluating Trends in Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage." American Sociological Review 72:68-94.[abstract]
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