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Laurie
DeRose
Assistant
Professor
Ph.D.
Sociology, Brown University, 1995
Office: 3105 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:
301 405-6417
Email: lderose@socy.umd.edu
Specialty
Areas:
Demography; Development
Laurie DeRose joined the University of Maryland faculty in
1998. Her previous appointments at Brown University
had been both at the World Hunger Program and
in the Department of Sociology. DeRose researches
demographic outcomes and decision-making processes
in disadvantaged contexts, particularly in sub-Saharan
Africa. Her research contributions are in three
main areas: 1) demographic effects of educational
reversals, 2) the meaning of education in underdeveloped
settings, and 3) the demography of hunger, expanded
to include breastfeeding and related public health
issues.
Her work on the demographic effects of declining
school enrollment rates in sub-Saharan includes
effects on fertility, child mortality, young women's
ability to refuse sex, and timing of marriage.
DeRose is also investigating the effects of other
types of crisis, particularly the fertility effects
mortality reversals (including the effects of
HIV prevalence on the fertility behavior of uninfected
individuals).
DeRose is also investigating how the effects
of women's work on children's health differ between
communities with different levels of women's labor
force participation.
Course
Syllabi
Sociology 201: Introductory
Statistics for Sociology
Sociology 410: Social Demography
Sociology
498D: African and African American Demography
Sociology 636: Population
and Development
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