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Vanessa Lang
Off-Campus Research Affiliate
Research Investigator, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Investigator, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Interests:
Vanessa is a Research Scientist at Resound Research for Reproductive Health and an off-campus Research Affiliate with the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She is a quantitatively trained family demographer and sociologist with expertise in studying reproductive behaviors and outcomes. Since 2014, she has been working on fertility and reproductive health research projects which have focused on contraceptive access and use, abortion, pregnancy, and childbearing in the United States. She has a specific interest in studying the policy implications surrounding access to contraception and reproductive healthcare and why sociodemographic disparities exist for a variety of reproductive outcomes.
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- Martha J Bailey, Bart, Lea, Prettyman, Alexa, Vanessa Lang, Dalton, Vanessa. 2024. Who Is Financially Constrained in Their Choice of Contraceptive Method? Lessons from M-CARES. AEA Papers and Proceedings 114:442-48.
- Martha Bailey, Lea Bart, Vanessa Lang. 2022. The Missing Baby Bust: The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Among Low-Income Women. Popul Res Policy Rev
- Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Vanessa Lang, Sarah R. Hayford. 2021. Do Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Attitudes and Knowledge Predict Men and Women’s Adult Sexual Partnerships?. Journal of Adolescent Health 68(1):95-102. PMCID: PMC7755833.
- Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sarah R. Hayford, Vanessa Lang. 2020. Do Reproductive Attitudes and Knowledge Explain Race-Ethnic-Nativity Differences in Unintended Fertility?. Analyzing Contemporary Fertility, The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 47
- Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Vanessa Lang, Sarah R. Hayford. 2019. Teen Girls’ Reproductive Attitudes and the Timing and Sequencing of Sexual Behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health 65(4):507-513. PMCID: PMC6755050.
- Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sarah R. Hayford, Vanessa Lang. 2019. Dimensions of Reproductive Attitudes and Knowledge Related to Unintended Childbearing among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults. Demography 56(1):201-228. PMCID: PMC6360941.