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Strohschein, Lisa

Assistant Professor
Social Structure and Policy

PhD (Sociology)

McMaster University

6-13 HM Tory Building

780.492.0475 phone

780.492.7196 fax

lisa.strohschein@ualberta.ca
 

 
Research Interests

Family dynamics and health, socioeconomic determinants of health, child and youth health, gender and health, life course approaches, growth curve modeling.

 
Research Grants

Pueblo in New Mexico

Family structure histories and child outcomes: How do patterns of stability and change in family structure influence the lives of Canadian children? PI: Lisa Strohschein, funded through SSHRC-SRG (2009-12).

Life Course as a Policy Lens, PI: Paul Bernard and Susan McDaniel, funded through Human Resources and Social Development Canada (2007 – 2009).

Successful Transitions, PI: Doug Willms, funded through Human Resources and Social Development Canada (2007 – 2009).

Divorce Histories, Residential Mobility and Educational Outcomes, RBC Financial Group Child Health Fund (RBC Visiting Scholar), Manitoba Center for Health Policy, University of Manitoba (2006-2008).

Raising and Levelling the Learning Bar, PI: Doug Willms, funded through SSHRC-INE, (2003-2008).

 
Professional Activities

National Steering Committee, National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

Editorial Board, Journal of Marriage and Family, since 2005

Occasional reviewer: American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Family Relations, Social Forces, Social Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Canadian Studies in Population

 
Research Publications

Corcovado

Strohschein, Lisa. (in press). Generating heat or light? The challenge of social address variables. Journal of Marriage and Family.

Li, Xu, Anne H. Gauthier, and Lisa Strohschein. (in press). Why are some children left out? Factors barring children from participating in extracurricular activities. Canadian Studies in Population.

Strohschein, Lisa, Noralou Roos, and Marni Brownell. (2009).  Family structure histories and high school completion: Evidence from a population based registry. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 34(1), 83-103.

Strohschein, Lisa A., Anne H. Gauthier, Rachel Campbell and Clayton Kleparchuk. (2008). Parenting as a dynamic process: A test of the resource dilution hypothesis. Journal of Marriage and Family, 70(3), 670-83.

Strohschein, Lisa. (2007). Challenging the presumption of diminished capacity to parent: Does divorce really change parenting practices? Family Relations, 56(3), 358-368.

Strohschein, Lisa. (2007). Prevalence of methylphenidate use among Canadian children following parental divorce. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 176(12), 1711-14.

Strohschein, Lisa A. (2005). Household income histories and child mental health trajectories. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 64(4) 359-375.

Strohschein, Lisa A. (2005). Parental divorce and child mental health trajectories. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1286-1300.

Strohschein, Lisa A., Peggy McDonough, Georges Monette and Qing Shao. (2005). Gender, marital status and mental health: Are there gender differences in the short-term effects of continuity and change in marital status? Social Science and Medicine, 61, 2293-2303. 

McDonough, Peggy and Lisa Strohschein (2003). Age and the gender gap in distress. Women and Health, 38(1), 1-20.