Nan Astone
Johns Hopkins University
Nan Marie Astone is a social demographer who has done research on the consequences of living in alternative family structures for adolescents, fertility intentions, the determinants of early childbearing, and the consequences of early childbearing, as well as assorted studies in family demography and the transition to adulthood. She was one of the first scholars to integrate the concept of “social capital” into demographic research on the family and has written a theoretical piece on social capital. She is an expert in both demographic and statistical approaches to longitudinal data analysis and has worked with the AddHealth data in a project funded by HRSA (Cheryl Alexander, P.I.) as well as the NSFH in a project funded by NICHD (Robert Schoen, P.I.).
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