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Faculty:

Victor Agadjanian | Jimi Adams | Mary Benin | Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Gerardo Chowell-Puente | María Hilda García-Pérez | Jennifer Glick
Patricia Gober | Brian Gratton | Steven Haas | Sarah Hayford | Chris Herbst Jennie Kronenfeld | Wei Li | Eileen Diaz McConnell | Cecilia Menjívar
Alan Murray | Matthew Pittinsky | Seline Szkupinski Quiroga |
David Schaefer | Alexandra Brewis Slade | Scott Yabiku

Mary Benin (Associate Professor)
E-mail: mary.benin@asu.edu

My work focuses generally in the area of the family. Within that area, I am interested in how family factors, especially family structure, influence adolescent educational attainments and other achievements. I also examine the role of the other contexts of the adolescent environment, including neighborhoods, schools and peers on adolescent success. I am currently collaborating with some of our health-oriented faculty to examine family and peer influences on adolescent obesity. A second family-oriented interest is in the roles that stage in the family life cycle and division of household labor play in the marital success and failure. I primarily analyze large national datasets and use quantitative analytic techniques including Structural Equation and Multi-Level Modeling.

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