Lynne Casper

About

Lynne Casper is a Professor of Sociology at USC Dornsife, with a focus on Family Sociology and Family Demography. Her research areas include work, family, and health; gender, work, and family; family change and variation; social demography; and quantitative methods. She is affiliated as a faculty member with the California Center for Population Research, NICHD Explaining Family Change Research Network, and the Work, Family, and Health Research Network. Casper holds a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from Penn State, earned in 1992, and has previously held positions such as Health Scientist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Senior Statistician and Demographer at the U.S. Census Bureau. Her research explores topics such as family structure, intergenerational families, child care, cohabitation, fatherhood, and the well-being of single-mother families, as well as women's life course transitions and demographic change. Casper has contributed to the field through numerous publications, including books, book chapters, and journal articles, and has been recognized with awards for her teaching and mentoring at USC. She has also served in administrative roles, including Director of Graduate Studies and Director of the Southern California Population Research Center.

Research topics

• Economics
• Developmental psychology
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Political Science
• Social psychology
• Demographic economics
• Gender studies
• Medicine
• Law

Selected publications

• Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict

  American Sociological Review · 2014-05-04 · 489 citations

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  Schedule control and supervisor support for family and personal life are work resources that may help employees manage the work-family interface. However, existing data and designs have made it difficult to conclusively identify the effects of these work resources. This analysis utilizes a group-randomized trial in which some units in an information technology workplace were randomly assigned to participate in an initiative, called STAR, that targeted work practices, interactions, and expectatio…

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• Marital Status and Mothers’ Time Use: Childcare, Housework, Leisure, and Sleep

  Demography · 2018-02-01 · 135 citations

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  Assumptions that single mothers are "time poor" compared with married mothers are ubiquitous. We tested theorized associations derived from the time poverty thesis and the gender perspective using the 2003-2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS). We found marital status differentiated housework, leisure, and sleep time, but did not influence the amount of time that mothers provided childcare. Net of the number of employment hours, married mothers did more housework and slept less than never-marrie…

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• Support in the Workplace: Buffering the Deleterious Effects of Work–Family Conflict on Child Welfare Workers’ Well-Being and Job Burnout

  Journal of Social Service Research · 2014-02-14 · 58 citations

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  We examined the impact of work–family conflict (WFC) on worker well-being and job burnout, as well as the role of social support in the workplace as a potential buffer against the influence of WFC. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses in a cross-sectional sample of 361 public child welfare workers indicate that WFC was related to reduced well-being and increased job burnout, whereas supervisory support moderated the relationship between WFC and well-being. Findings from this stud…

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• Parents’ Daily Time With Their Children: A Workplace Intervention

  PEDIATRICS · 2015-04-14 · 51 citations

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  OBJECTIVES: In the context of a group randomized field trial, we evaluated whether parents who participated in a workplace intervention, designed to increase supervisor support for personal and family life and schedule control, reported significantly more daily time with their children at the 12-month follow-up compared with parents assigned to the Usual Practice group. We also tested whether the intervention effect was moderated by parent gender, child gender, or child age. METHODS: The Support…

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• Is Work-family Conflict a Multilevel Stressor Linking Job Conditions to Mental Health? Evidence from the Work, Family and Health Network

  2015-02-18 · 51 citations

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  PURPOSE: Most research on the work conditions and family responsibilities associated with work-family conflict and other measures of mental health uses the individual employee as the unit of analysis. We argue that work conditions are both individual psychosocial assessments and objective characteristics of the proximal work environment, necessitating multilevel analyses of both individual- and team-level work conditions on mental health. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: This study uses multilevel data on…

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Frequent coauthors

• Rosalind Berkowitz King

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  10 shared

• Suzanne M. Bianchi

  University of California, Los Angeles

  8 shared

• Sandra Florian

  Institut national d'études démographiques

  8 shared

• Kelly D. Davis

  7 shared

• Cassandra A. Okechukwu

  University of Calgary

  6 shared

• Liana C. Sayer

  University of Toronto

  5 shared

• Leslie B. Hammer

  Oregon Health & Science University

  5 shared

• Erin L. Kelly

  IIT@MIT

  5 shared

Awards & honors

• USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, Mellon Mentoring Awar…
• USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Exc…
• Director of Graduate Studies (2013 –)
• Director, Southern California Population Research Center (20…

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