Linda is a Senior Research Associate in the Survey Research Center's Family and Demography Program and is responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of research staff activities associated with program data collections, data analysis projects, and archival activities. She is a key collaborator with Arland Thornton and other researchers on projects dealing with development and people's ideas of development around the world.
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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