The transition to adulthood: A time use perspective, with Anne H. Gauthier. (March 2000).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California.

Managing early adulthood: A follow-up of the Philadelphia youth study, with Julie Kmec. (June 2000).
Paper presented at the Inequality Summer Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Contextual continuities and discontinuities in adolescent lives: An examination of neighborhood, school, family, and peer contexts over time, with Mary J. Fischer. (August 2000).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

Similarities and diversity in children's family structure experiences: An international comparison, with Patrick Heuveline and Jeffrey M. Timberlake. (August 2000).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association in Washington, D.C.

Estimates of parental time: Theoretical and methodological issues, with Anne H. Gauthier and Timothy Smeeding. (December 2000).
Paper presented at the MacArthur Foundation Family and Economy Network meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

Families and neighborhoods: Toward a broader view of social ecology. (August 2001).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California.

Social contexts and success in early adulthood. (August 2011).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California.

Growing up in American society: Income, opportunities, and outcomes. (September 2001).
Paper presented at the International Symposium, Institutions, Interrelations, Sequences: The Bremen Life-Course Approach, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. (2003). In Walter R. Heinz and Victor W. Marshall (Eds.), Social dynamics of the life course: Transitions, institutions, and interrelations (pp. 211-233). New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Teenage childbearing across generations: Reality or myth? (October 2001).
Paper presented at the National Institutes of Health as part of the NIH Behavioral and Social Science Research Lecture Series, Washington, D.C.

From teenage mother to middle-age matriarch: A journey between two racial stereotypes. (April 2002).
Paper presented at the Race/Ethnicity, Self/Culture, and Inequality conference, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

How adolescent family management strategies influence later life outcomes, with Julie Kmec. (August 2003).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Non-normative life course transitions: Reflections on the significance of demographic events on lives. (October 2003).
Paper presented at the Research Colloquium Trajectories, Stages, Transitions and Events of the Life Course: Towards an Interdisciplinary Perspective, PaVie Center for Life Course and Life Style Studies, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. (2006). In Rene Levy, Paola Ghisletta, Jean-Marie LeGoff, and Dario Spini (Eds.), Advances in life-course research: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective on the life course (pp. 159-176). London: Elsevier Science, Ltd.

School-to-career and post-secondary education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study, with David Neumark. (May 2004).
Paper presented at the Russell Sage Foundation conference on School-To-Work Transitions and School-To Work Programs, New York, New York. (March 2005). Working paper No. 11260 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Social capital: Sociological tool or rhetorical tag? (April 2005).
Paper presented at the Families and Social Capital ESCR Research Group International Conference, London South Bank University, London, England.

Early adulthood: A new stage of life? (April 2005).
Paper presented at the Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood annual conference, Childhood, Youth, Personal Relationships and the Life Course: Developing a Study of Young Lives, University of Leeds, Leeds, England.

Banking on families: How families generate and distribute social capital. (April 2005).
Presented at the Wither Social Capital Conference, London, England. (2005). Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67(4):809-821.

Is 30 the new 20? Trends in age distribution of problem behaviors in young adulthood, with Sarah Hayford. (August 2005).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The consequences of multi-partnered fertility for parental resources and relationships, with Marcy Carlson. (November 2005).
Paper presented at the annual APPAM Research Conference, Washington, D.C.

Diverging development: The not so invisible hand of social class in the United States. (March 2006).
Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA. (2010). In Barbara Risman (Ed.), Families as they really are (pp. 276-294). New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

Keynote Address: Vulnerable youth and the transition to adulthood. (March 2006).
Keynote address given at the opening of the Symposium on Law and Adolescence at Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (2006). Temple Law Review, 79(2):325-335.

Multi-partnered fertility among American men, with Karen Guzzo. (March/April 2006).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California. (September 2006). Also presented at the IP Working Conference on Multiple-Partner Fertility, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Growing up is harder to do. (February 2007).
Paper presented at the conference Legal Issues Affecting the Transition from Foster Care to Independence supported by the Kanter Family Foundation, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

The impact of changes in maternal age on the wellbeing of children, with Elizabeth Wildsmith. (March 2007).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, New York.

The consequences of multi-partnered fertility for parental involvement and relationships, with Marcia J. Carlson. (March 2007).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, New York.

If Moynihan had only known: Race, class, and family change in the later 20th century. (September 2007).
Paper presented at the conference The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades, sponsored by AAPSS, Department of Sociology, Harvard University and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (2009). ANNALS, 621:94-110.

The changing transitions to adulthood and intergenerational relationships: A research agenda. (June 2008).
Paper presented at the European Science Foundation Conference, The Transfer of Resources across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children’s Wellbeing. Vadstena, Sweden.

The determinants and consequences of family social capital, with Michelle Poulin. (August 2009).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.

Social class differences in the timing and first sex, first birth and marriage, with Rachel Margolis. (August 2009).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.

Parental support during young adulthood: Why does assistance decline with age? With Caroline Sten Hartnett, and Karen Fingerman. (April 2010).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Dallas, Texas.

Investing in children: Changes in parental spending on children, 1972 to 2007, with Sabino Kornrich. (March/April 2011).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C.

Stability and change in the transition to adulthood: A latent structure analysis of three generations in the National Longitudinal Surveys, with Ross Macmillan. (May 2012).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America., San Francisco, California.

Recent trends and recomposition of American families. (May 2012).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, San Francisco. California.

Families in the middle: “Specific" and "general" educational aspirations among middle-income parents, with Tina Wu and Laura Napolitano. (August 2012).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado.

The changing transition to adulthood in the U.S.: Trends in demographic role transitions and age norms since 2000, with Sheela Kennedy. (April 2013).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Fifty years of family change: From Consensus to complexity. (July 2013).
Paper presented at the Institute for Research on Poverty Conference, Family Complexity, Poverty, and Public Policy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (2014). ANNALS, 654:12-30.

Social class differences in the timing of marriage and first births, with Rachel Margolis. (August 2014).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.

Changing families around the world: The American family in a global context. (May 2015).
Paper presented at the United Nations Day of Families conference, Men in Charge? Gender Equality and Children’s Rights in Contemporary Families, UN HQ New York, New York.

Becoming adults: Challenges in the transition to adult roles. (May 2015).
Paper presented at the Summit on Positive Development of NOLA Youth: A Call to Action, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Fear of crime and its effects on citizen behavior. (1972).
Paper presented at the Symposium on Studies of Public Experience, Knowledge and Opinion about Criminal Justice, Washington, D. C.

The long-term consequences of early childbearing for women's social networks, with Albert G. Crawford. (1979).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Association, New York, New York.

Family adaptations to teenage childbearing: Selected problems for future investigation. (August 1979).
Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, Massachusetts.

Teenage parenthood and family support. (April 1980).
Paper presented at the White House Conference on Families, Washington, D.C.

Renegotiating parenthood after divorce and remarriage. (April 1981).
Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Symposium on Changing Family Patterns, Boston, Massachusetts.

Some implications of divorce for kinship relations. (March 1983).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Association, Baltimore, Maryland.

Cohort variation in children's response to divorce: A preliminary assessment, with Judith A. Seltzer. (April 1983).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The contemporary American family in historical perspective. (June 1983).
Paper presented at the U.S./U.S.S.R. Seminar on Research in Human Development, Moscow.

Grandparents and grandchildren: Some preliminary findings from a national study, with Andrew J. Cherlin and Cheryl Allyn Miller. (August 1983).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit, Michigan.

Encountering divorce: Children's responses to family dissolution and reconstruction, with Judith A. Seltzer, Paul Allison, and Christine Winquist Nord. (August 1983).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit, Michigan.

Grandparents and divorce: Evidence from a national study, with Andrew J. Cherlin, Su-Hoon Lee, and Cheryl Allyn Miller. (October 1983).
Paper presented at the Wingspread Conference on Grandparenting and Family Communications, Racine, Wisconsin.

Preventing adolescent pregnancy: The role of research. (April 1984).
Paper presented at the National Council on Foundations conference, Denver, Colorado.

New thoughts about teenager's contraceptive behavior: Policy implications. (May 1984).
Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, New York, New York.

Starting early: Antecedents of early premarital intercourse, with Kristin A. Moore and James L. Peterson. (May 1984).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Television viewing and early initiation of sexual intercourse: Is there a link? with James L. Peterson and Kristin A. Moore. (August 1984).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Toronto. (1991). Journal of Homosexuality, 20(1):93-188.

Teenage parenthood and the cycle of disadvantage: A questionable proposition. (October 1984).
Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Targeting services for teen mothers and their children: Lessons of the Baltimore study. (1986).
Paper prepared for the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Variations in mother-teenager agreement in a survey of Philadelphia area parents and teens, with Herbert L. Smith and M. E. Hughes. (May 1989).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Long-term implications of fertility-related behavior upon adolescent mothers and their children, with J. Brooks-Gunn and S. Philip Morgan. (September 1986).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. Published as Long-term implications of fertility-related behavior and family formation upon adolescent mothers and their children, with J. Brooks-Gunn. (1989). In K. Kreppner and R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Family systems and life-span development (pp. 319-339). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

The disappearing American father? Divorce and the waning significance of biological parenthood, with Kathleen Mullan Harris. (April 1990).
Paper presented at the conference on Demographic Perspectives on the American Family: Patterns and prospects, Albany, New York. (1992). In S. J. South and S. Tolnay (Eds.), The changing American family: Sociological and demographic perspectives (pp. 197-223). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

The changing consequences of adolescent childbearing: A comparison of fertility and marriage patterns across cohorts, with Aimee Dechter. (August 1990).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

How families manage risk and opportunity in dangerous neighborhoods. (August 1990).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. (1993). In W. J. Wilson (Ed.), Sociology and the public agenda (pp. 231-258). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Supporting fathers: Implications of the Family Support Act for Men. (November 1990).
Paper presented at the forum on the Family Support Act sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development at the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C. Also published as Dealing with Dads: The changing roles of fathers. (1995). In P. L. Chase-Lansdale and J. Brooks-Gunn (Eds.), Escape from poverty: What makes a difference for poor children? (pp. 189-210). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Adolescent childbearing and High School completion differentials: An inter-cohort comparison, with Aimee R. Dechter & Kathleen Mullan Harris. (March 1991).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C.

Reconsidering the effects of marital disruption: What happens to children of divorce in early adulthood? with Julien O. Teitler. (October 1991).
Paper presented at the European Population Conference, Paris, France. (1994). Journal of Family Issues, 15(2):173-190.

Family change and the welfare of children: What do we know and what can we do about it? (January 1992).
Paper presented at the seminar of Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries, Rome, Italy. (1995). In K. O. Mason and A. M. Jensen (Eds.), Gender and family change in industrialized countries (pp. 245-257). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Reflections on the sociology of childhood. (September 1992).
Paper presented at the International Conference on Childhood as a social phenomenon: Lessons from an international research project, Billund, Denmark. (1994). In Jens Qvortrup (Ed.), Childhood as a social phenomenon: Lessons from an international project (pp. 29-43). Vienna: European Centre.

Adapting to difficult environments: Neighborhood characteristics and family strategies. (March 1992).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescents, Washington, DC.

The effects of divorce and remarriage on intergenerational transfers: A preliminary analysis of the PSID, with Saul D. Hoffman and Laura Shrestha. (April 1993).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Cincinnati, Ohio. Published as The effect of divorce on intergenerational transfers: New evidence, with Saul D. Hoffman and Laura Shrestha. (1995). Demography, 32(3):319-333.

Racial differences in overlapping disadvantages and neighborhood poverty during childhood, with E. Michael Foster. (April 1993).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Social capital and successful development among at-risk youth, with Mary Elizabeth Hughes. (August 1994).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California. (1995). Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57(3):580-592.

Neighborhood settings and parenting strategies, with Karen Walker. (August 1994).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California.

The influence of neighborhoods on children's development: A theoretical perspective and a research agenda, with Mary Elizabeth Hughes. (November 1994).
Paper presented at the conference Indicators of Children's Well-Being, Rockville, Maryland. (1997). In J. Brooks-Gunn, G. Duncan and J.L. Aber (Eds.), Neighborhood poverty: Policy implications in studying neighborhoods, vol. 2 (pp. 23-47). New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Are trends in the well-being of children related to changes in the American family? Making a simple question more complex, with Gretchen A. Condran. (December 1994).
Paper presented at the International Year of the Family conference, Paris, France. (1994). Population, 6:1613-1638.

Divorce, fathers, and children: Patterns and effects of paternal involvement, with Kathleen Mullan Harris. (April 1995).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, California.

The fading dream: Prospects for marriage in the inner-city. (June 1995).
Paper presented at the Family Research Consortium Summer Institute, Ogonquit, Maine. (2001). In Elijah Anderson and Douglas S. Massy (Eds.), Problem of the century: Racial stratification in the United States at Century’s end (pp. 224-246). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Visions of the future: Urban parents' hopes, fears, and plans for their adolescents' success, with Karen Walker. (August 1995).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.

Teen pregnancy and parenting: What is the problem? (April 1996).
Paper presented at a symposium on teenage pregnancy at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

Paternal involvement with adolescents in intact families: The influence of fathers over the life course, with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Jeffrey K. Marmer. (August 1996).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York. (1998). Demography, 35(2):201-216

Intergenerational transmission of fathering roles in at risk families. (October 1996).
Paper presented at the NICHD Family and Child Well-Being Network's conference on Father Involvement, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Family change and family diversity: Accounts of the past and scenarios of the future. (October 1996).
Paper presented at the conference on Common Values, Social Diversity, and Cultural Conflict, Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA.

Social capital and the role of fathers in the family. (November 1996).
Paper presented at the National Symposium on Men in Families, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (1998). In Alan Booth and Nan Crouter (Eds.), Men in families: When do they get involved? What difference does it make (pp. 295-301). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Assoc.

When will teenage childbearing become a social problem? The implications of Western experience for developing countries. (March 1997).
Paper presented at the Workshop on Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: Trends and Interventions, Washington, D .C. (1998). Studies in Family Planning, 29(2):246-253.

Parenting after divorce: Remarriage and cohabitation from the perspective of children with Donna Ruane Morrison and Amy Ritualo. (March 1997).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C.

Schooling together: Mutual influences on educational success of teenage mothers and their children, with Christopher C. Weiss. (March 1997).
Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Washington, D.C.

Adolescent females: Their sexual partners and fathers of their children, with Irma T. Elo and Rosalind Berkowitz King. (March 1997).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, D. C.

How much do we count? Interpretation and error-making in the 1990 census, with Roberta R. Iversen and Alisa A. Belzer. (April 1997).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland; (August 1997). Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, Canada; (August 1997). American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada.

Why pregnancy prevention programs don't work and what to do about it. (November 1997).
Paper presented at Northwestern University Joint Center for Poverty Research conference Synthesizing the results of demonstration projects for teen mothers, Chicago, Illinois.

Where they live/How they live: Findings from the Philadelphia study. (February 1998).
Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, California.

Most disadvantaged children: Trends over time, with E. Michael Foster. (April 1998).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Chicago, Illinois.

A Multi-partnered fertility sequences: Documenting an alternative family form, with Rosalind Berkowitz King. (April 1998).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Chicago, Illinois.

Neighborhoods, mobility, and the successful development of at-risk youth, with Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Katrina Bell McDonald. (April 1998).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Chicago, Illinois.

The effect of welfare reform on the family: The good, the bad and the ugly. (May 1998).
Paper presented at the Joint Center for Poverty Research Preconference Family Management and Child Development in Low Income Families, Chicago, Illinois.

The modern family: A threat to children's health? (August 1998).
Paper presented at the International Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, Stockholm, Sweden.

Children and family change: Discourse between social scientists and the media. (August 1998).
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.

Internationally comparative research on children’s well-being in developed countries: Adventures in secondary analysis, with Brett Brown. (November 1998).
Paper presented at the Third International Workshop Monitoring and Measuring Children’s Well-Being, Kiawah Island, SC.

Paternal involvement and children’s health: A longitudinal study, with Kathleen A. Foley. (April 1999).
Paper presented at the first biannual conference of the Urban Seminar Series on Children’s Health and Safety on Fatherhood, Cambridge, MA.

How it takes 30 years to do a study. (April 1999).
Paper presented at Radcliff College, Murray Research Center conference Landmark Studies of the 20th Century, Cambridge, MA. (1999). In Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Anne Colby (Eds.), Looking at lives: American longitudinal studies of the twentieth century (pp. 37-57). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.