Research Summary:Suzanne Davies Withers is an associate professor of Geography and an affiliate the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington. She researches social and spatial change from a life course perspective, examining the intersection of family dynamics, housing and labor markets transitions, and geographic mobility at both the national and local scale.
Withers' main methodological interests lie in the application of longitudinal methods to the analysis of social and spatial dynamics. From 1997 to 1999 she was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Strengthening the Linkages between the Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences. Her research has utilized longitudinal models to examine the timing of household formation and dissolution and residential mobility, particularly the transition from renting to home ownership, and leaving home ownership. An extension of this work explores the residential consequences of marital dissolution, with emphasis on both short-term and long-term gender differences in home ownership subsequent to divorce. She is also studying the extent to which intergenerational wealth transfers enable first-time homeownership amongst couples. Related to this, Withers is the PI for a Department of Housing and Urban Development Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant awarded to Carolina M. Katz titled Achieving the American Dream: A Longitudinal Study of the Homeownership Experiences of Low-Income Families.
Recent Publications:- Withers, S.; Clark, W., (Forthcoming), Fertility, Labor Force Participation and Mobility: A Study of Synchronicity, Population, Space and Place..
- Withers, S., (2009), Categorical Methods, International encyclopedia of human geography, Thrift, N. J.; Kitchin, R., Elsevier Science, Oxford.
- Withers, S., (2008), Longitudinal Methods (Cohort Analysis, life tables), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Kitchin; Thrift, Elsevier, Oxford.
- Withers, S.; Clark, W.; Ruiz, T., (2008), Demographic variation in housing cost adjustments with family migration, Population, Space and Place, 14: 4, 305-325.
- Withers, S.; Clark, W., (2007), Family migration and mobility sequences in the United States: Spatial mobility in the context of the life course, Demographic Research, 17.
- Withers, S.; Clark, W., (2006), Housing Costs and the Geography of Family Migration Outcomes, Population, Space and Place, 12, 273-89.
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Ph.D. 1992, University of California, Los Angeles. Residential mobility and migration in the US, housing careers and household dynamics, event-history and social survey analysis.
