Areas of Research/Interest: Family; poverty; social demography; life course; methods for studying social change.

Fellowships/Honors: Chair, Population Section, American Sociological Association (2007-2008); Series Co-Editor, Analytical Methods for Social Research, Cambridge University Press (2003-present); Book Review Editor, Sociological Methods and Research (2000-present); Nomination Committee, Population Association of America (2006-2007); Chair, Technical Review Committee, National Longitudinal Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics (2002-2006); Editorial Board, Contexts (2003-2005); Chair, Quantitative Methods Section, American Sociological Association (2003-2005); Board of Directors, Population Association of America (2002-2005); Member, Population Research Subcommittee, Initial Review Group, National Institute of Child and Human Development (2002-2003); Board of Overseers, Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1996-2002); Faculty Scholar, William T. Grant Foundation (1992-1998); Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1991-1992).

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Wu, Lawrence L., and Steven P. Martin. Forthcoming. "Effects of Exposure on Prevalence and Cumulative Risk: Direct and Indirect Effects in a Recursive Hazard Model." Forthcoming, Sociological Methodology.  Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L., and Kelly Musick. 2008. "Stability of Marital and Cohabiting Unions Following A First Birth."  Population Research and Policy Review 27(6): 713-27.  Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2008. "Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility in U.S. Women," Demography,  45(1) 193–207, February 2008. Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L., and Jui-Chung Allen Li. 2005a. "Historical Roots of Family Diversity: Marital and Childbearing Trajectories of American Women." Pp. 110-149 in Richard A. Settersten, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Ruben G. Rumbaut (Eds.), On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago.  Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2003. "Event History Models for Life Course Analysis" in Jeylan Mortimer and Michael Shanahan (Eds.), Handbook of the Life Course, Plenum.  Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L. 2002.  "Fertility of Single and Cohabiting Women" in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.  Click here to read.

Wu, Lawrence L., and Barbara Wolfe (Eds.).  2001. Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility, Russell Sage Foundation.

Wu, Lawrence L., Larry Bumpass and Kelly Musick.  2001. "Historical and Life Course Trajectories of Nonmarital Childbearing" in L. Wu and B. Wolfe (Eds.), Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility, Russell Sage Foundation.

Wu, Lawrence L.  2000. "Some Comments on `Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology: Review and Prospect,'" Sociological Methods and Research 29(1) 41-64.  Click here to read.