Columbia University Health & Society Scholar, Cohort 1 Assistant Professor, Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Molly Martin received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. Fundamentally, her research seeks to understand how inequalities are produced and reproduced across generations. Her training in social inequality and family demography led to research projects investigating family influences for children’s educational attainment, teen childbearing, and adult welfare use. As a Health & Society Scholar, Martin investigated the family as a significant health context for generating health disparities. Focusing on adolescent obesity as a primary example, she explored the family processes and resources important for adolescent overweight using sibling data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. With co-investigators Gary Sandefur and fellow Health and Society Scholar, Michelle Frisco, Martin submitted and received approval for an R-01 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The grant locates adolescent overweight within family and life course processes to better investigate the social and behavioral causes and consequences of overweight. Upon completion of her tenure as a Health and Society Scholar, Martin joined Penn State’s sociology department as an assistant professor.
Education & Training
University of Wisconsin, PhD in Sociology, 2003
Affiliations
Contact Information
414 Oswald Tower
Department of Sociology, Penn State University Park, PA 16802
USA
Phone
work: 814-863-5508
fax: 814-863-7216
Email : mmartin@pop.psu.edu
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Selected Published Works
Martin, Molly A. “The Intergenerational Correlation in Weight: How Genetic Resemblance Reveals the Social Role of Families.” American Journal of Sociology (Forthcoming, 2008).
Hillemeier Marianne M., George Farkas, Paul L. Morgan, Molly A. Martin, and Steven A. Maczuga. “Disparities in the Prevalence of Cognitive Delay: How Early Do They Appear?” Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (Forthcoming, 2008)
Martin, Molly A. “Family Structure and Income Inequality in Families with Children: 1976 to 2000.” Demography, 43 (2006): 421-445.
Martin, Molly A. “The Role of Family Income in the Intergenerational Association of AFDC Receipt.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 65 (2003): 326-340.
Sandefur, Gary D., Molly Martin, Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, Susan E. Mannon, and Ann M. Meier. “An Overview of Racial and Ethnic Demographic Trends.” Pp. 40-102 in N. J. Smelser, W. J. Wilson, and F. Mitchell (eds.), America Becoming: Racial Trends and Th
