hofferth@umd.edu

Sandra Hofferth, Professor in the Department of Family Science at the University of Maryland, directs the Maryland Population Research Center. Hofferth received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina. Hofferth is a family demographer who has researched family issues in the context of public policy for over thirty years, publishing three books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. She previously served as Vice President of the Population Association of America. Hofferth conducts research on the influences of family structure and familial relationships within and across households on parental time with children and later child well-being. She is also interested in family, community, and media influences on children's activities. She directs the Time Use Data Access System, a project joint with the University of Minnesota that is dedicated to making it easy for researchers to extract data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). She was coinvestigator on a program project funded by NICHD to examine the transition to fatherhood and male parenting behavior within and across households over time.