Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Gender, Family, Inequality
E-Mail:
eshafer@hsph.harvard.edu
Background:
Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Stanford University in 2010. Her research explores the relationship between gender, marriage and family, and several behavioral and attitudinal outcomes, such as: employment, health and socio-political attitudes. To analyze these topics, she employs an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon theories and methods from Sociology, Demography, Economics and Public Health. In her dissertation she investigated the ways in which husbands' influence wives’ labor force participation, the consequences of women's surname choice in marriage, and the effect of marriage on body mass index and obesity by race and gender. As a Health and Society scholar, she plans to further study issues of gender, marriage and family, and health.
Journal Articles:
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