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 Esther M. FriedmanGraduate Trainee - Sociology Advisor: Judith Seltzer Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2005 Undergraduate School/Majors: Brooklyn College, City University of New York/English Literature & Marketing Graduate School/Degree: Columbia University/M.A., Statistics) Email:  Research: My current research investigates intergenerational family relations over the life course. Some of my work has focused on the earlier part of the life course, specifically, child wellbeing. In particular, I studied whether parent-child ties and social support, both inside and outside the household, explain the association between family structure and children's behavior and achievement. More recently, I have become interested in later life, and am working on a couple of projects examining intergenerational transfers from adult children to their older parents. My recent work includes an analysis of the between- and within-family characteristics of widowed mothers who live with their children, and a study of the effects of children's educational attainment on middle-aged and older parents' mortality. For my IRSP internship, I am moving beyond both intergenerational relations and traditional demographic data and am working with Teresa Seeman (medicine) to investigate the effect of social relationships on biomarkers of health in midlife. Publications and conference presentations: J. A. Seltzer and E. M. Friedman. "Widowed Mothers' Co-residence with Adult Children: Who Will Take Care of Mom?" Paper to be presented at the Population Association of America, New Orleans, L.A., April 2008. E. M. Friedman and J.A. Seltzer, "Providing for Parents: Is It a Family Affair?" Paper presented at the Population Association of America, New York, NY, March 2007. Rask K., Culler S., Scott T., Kohler S., Hawley J., Friedman E., Naylor, D. 2007. "Adopting National Quality Forum Medication Safe Practices: Progress and Barriers to Hospital Implementation." Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2:4, 212-218. E. M. Friedman and J. A. Seltzer, "Nature or Nurturing? Examining the Link between Family Structure, Social Support, and Child Well-being." Presented at the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, August 2006. E. M. Friedman, "Thinking outside the House: Family Type, Social Support, and the Wellbeing of Children in Los Angeles." Paper presented at the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, California, March 2006. E. M. Friedman, Clusen, N.A., Hartzell, M., "The Net Effect: A Comparison of Internet and Mail Survey Respondents." 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. E.M. Friedman, Clusen, N. A., and Hartzell, M., "Better Late? Characteristics of Late Respondents to a Health Care Survey." 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. N. A. Clusen, Friedman, E.M., and Hartzell, M., "Using Alternate Address Information to Increase Response among Active Duty Personnel." 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section [CD ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. F. Potter, Jang, D., Friedman, E. M., Diaz-Tena, N., and Ghosh, B., "Comparison of Procedures to Account for Certainty Primary Sampling Units." 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. E. M. Friedman, D. Jang, and T.V. Williams, "Combined Estimates from Four Quarterly Survey Data Sets." 2002 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Honors and awards: NSF-IGERT Interdisciplinary Relationships Science Program (IRSP) Fellowship, 2006-08 First Prize, Population Association of America (PAA) Poster Competition (2006) Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition (2006) NICHD-California Center for Population Research Training Fellowship (2005-2006) |
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