Julie is a Research Associate in the Family and Demography Program, housed in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is involved in several different research projects, and her work includes data collection design, collection, and analysis. Currently she is also involved in the development of measures of Developmental Idealism as well as the analysis of data concerning Developmental Idealism from a variety of countries.
A survey concerning developmental idealism is currently being conducted in Nepal.
A. Thornton, D. Philipov. "Sweeping Changes in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing in Central and Eastern Europe: New Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." Recently published in European Journal of Population.
Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad (eds), Family in the Middle East: Ideational change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia. Routledge. 2008
The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.
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