Laurie Fields DeRose

Senior Fellow
Institute For Family Studies
United States

lauriebrks@gmail.com

Field of Study: Sociology
 
Specialization: Children and Youth, Culture, religion and ethnicity, Education and Schooling, Families and Households, Fertility, HIV/AIDS and STI's, Marriage, Divorce and Consensual Unions, Population and Development, Reproductive Health (Family Planning), Social Demography
 
Regional focus: Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Brown University, Sociology, 1995
 
Working languages: English
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA)

Curriculum Vitae:
 
Professional Summary:

Laurie DeRose’s current research is focused on global family demography. Her work on a wide variety of health-related topics is informed by a Sociological Imagination: She investigates individual-level effects of shifting social contexts.

 

Publications:

Abdelkaluk, Fatma, Philip Joseph, Laurie DeRose, Emmanuel Olamijuwon, Pumla  Dladla, Thulani Ngubane, Victoria Hosegood, Heidi van Rooyen, Alastair van Heerden, and Nuala McGrath. 2023. “Two-way associations between relationship quality and uptake of health screening including couples HIV testing and counselling together: Quantitative analysis of a couples cohort in rural South Africa” AIDS Impact special issue. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540121.2024.2308741?mi=gtc2i1

Oldroyd, Rebecca, Laurie F. DeRose, Michael Pluess, and Kristin Hadfield. 2023. A Test of the Instability Hypothesis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Journal of Family Psychology 37, no. 6:786-795. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Ffam0001118

Oldroyd, Rebecca, Shazia Rahman, Laurie F. DeRose, and Kristin Hadfield. 2021. "Family Structure Transitions: Prevalence and Physical Health Effects in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam." Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10826-021-02148-2 

DeRose, Laurie F., W. Bradford Wilcox, Pamela Leyva TownsendJaviera Reyes Brito, and Spencer James. 2021. “Has the New Natalism Reduced the Religious Fertility Advantage?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60, no. 4: 726-748. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12747

DeRose, Laurie F., Byron R. Johnson, Wendy Wang, and Andrés Salazar Arango. 2021. “Couple Religiosity, Male Headship, Intimate Partner Violence, and Infidelity.” Review of Religious Research 63: 607-627http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13644-021-00461-2

DeRose, Laurie F. 2021. “Gender Equity, Religion, and Fertility in Europe and North America.” Population and Development Review 47, no. 1 (March): 41-55. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12373