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William G Axinn
Research Professor; Training Faculty
Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
Research Interests:
Dr. Axinn is professor of survey research, population studies, sociology and public policy at the University of Michigan. Axinn is a social demographer studying community, intergenerational, and social psychological influences on marriage, childbearing, reproductive health, mental health and the natural environment. He is former director of Michigan’s Survey Research Center with an active program of methodological research on longitudinal studies, survey data collection and mixed method studies. He is director of the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS), a 28-year, mixed method longitudinal study in Nepal.
Select Projects
- National Campus Climate Survey
- A More Efficient Web-Based Approach to Collecting National Family, Fertility and Reproductive Health Data
- Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science
- Understanding the Connections among Genes, Environment, Family Processes, and Mental Health
- Development Core
- A New Population-Scale Approach for the Study of Psychological Stress in the Transition to Adulthood
- Intergenerational Influences on Marriage, Contraception and Childbearing
Select Publications
- Zhang,Shiyu, Brady Thomas West, Wagner,James Robert, Mick Couper, Gatward,Rebecca, William G Axinn. 2023. Visible Cash, a Second Incentive, and Priority Mail? An Experimental Evaluation of Mailing Strategies for a Screening Questionnaire in a National Push-To-Web/Mail Survey. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
- Yang Zhang, Axinn,William G. 2022. Cohabitation dissolution and psychological distress among young adults: The role of parenthood and gender. Social Science Research 102:102626.
- Melanie S. Askari, Emily Treleaven, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Axinn,William G, Sabrina Hermosilla. 2022. COVID-19 worries, concerns and mitigation behaviours: A snapshot of Nepal during the first wave. Tropical Medicine & International Health 27(2):165-173.
- Axinn,William G, Karmel W. Choi, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Cole,Faith, Private: Hermosilla,Sabrina, Corina Benjet, Melany C. Morgenstern, Younga H. Lee, Jordan W. Smoller. 2022. Community-Level Social Support Infrastructure and Adult Onset of Major Depressive Disorder in a South Asian Postconflict Setting. JAMA Psychiatry 79(3):243-249.
- West,Brady Thomas, Axinn,William G, Mick Couper, Heather Gatny, Schroeder,Heather Marie. 2022. A Web-based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior. Field Methods 34(1):3-19.
- Private: Hermosilla,Sabrina, Karmel W. Choi, Askari,Melanie, Taylor Marks, Christy Denckla, Axinn,William G, Jordan W. Smoller, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Corina Benjet. 2022. What can we learn about polytrauma typologies by comparing population-representative to trauma-exposed samples: A Nepali example. Journal of Affective Disorders 314:201-210.
- Axinn,William G, Banchoff,Emma, Cole,Faith, Ghimire,Dirgha Jibi, Jordan W. Smoller. 2022. The transition to parenthood, opportunity to drink, drinking, and alcohol use disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 241:109697.
- Dirgha Jibi Ghimire, Emma Mariah Banchoff, Cole,Faith, William G Axinn. 2022. The transition to parenthood, opportunity to drink, drinking, and alcohol use disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 241:109697.
- Axinn,William G, Vale,Mira, Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2021. Student reports of attendance at programs to reduce campus sexual assault and harassment. Journal of American College Health
- Zhang, Yang, Axinn,William G. 2021. Marital Experiences and Depression in an Arranged Marriage Setting. American Journal of Sociology 126(6):1439-1486.