Daniel Klepinger

Ph.Ds. 1986, 1988, University of Washington. Labor economics, fertility regulation, STD/HIV risk behavior, adolescent pregnancy, family, drug and alcohol use, multi-level and multi-process modeling.

Department: CPHRE
Position: Research Leader and Associate Director
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Phone: (206) 528-3124

Research Summary:

Daniel Klepinger is a senior research scientist at Battelle's Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation (CPHRE). Over the past three years, he has conducted research on contraceptive method choice, HIV risk behavior, contextual effects, and adolescent fertility. The work on contraceptive use has focused on contraceptive method discontinuation and switching, the use of dual methods to prevent both pregnancy and STD's, how perceptions of contraceptive method characteristics influence method choice, and how men's and women's perceptions of contraceptive method characteristics differ. Results from this research is providing important insight into how people form their perceptions about contraceptive methods, how their perceptions and personal characteristics influence the contraceptive methods they chose to use, and what factors lead to switching methods. His research on HIV risk behavior is focused on risk behavior within the context of sexual relationships and examines how risk behavior is influenced by perceptions of risk, including perceptions of partners' HIV status, and examines how HIV risk behavior evolves over the course of a relationship. This research is providing important information about the formation of risk perceptions, how those perceptions influence risk behavior, and how relationship characteristics and prior risk behavior within the relationship alter how perceptions of risk influence risk behavior. The research on contextual effects has focused on community-level influences on adolescent drug and alcohol use, and is continuing with an investigation of their influence on adolescent sexual risk behavior. This research is examining the influence of social, economic, school, and family-level contextual effects. His research on adolescent fertility examined how an adolescent birth affects a young woman's human capital accumulation and adult employment experiences using an instrumental variables approach. This work demonstrates that an adolescent birth adversely affects a woman's future wages by limiting her schooling and work experience. It further shows that the effects are somewhat larger for whites than blacks, in part because the rate of return to schooling is greater for black teen mothers than it is for blacks who did not have a child during adolescence.

Bobo, J. K.; Klepinger, D. H.; Dong, F. B., (2007), Identifying Social Drinkers Likely to Consume Alcohol During Pregnancy: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Investigation, Psychological Reports, 101, 857-870.

Cubbins, L. A.; Klepinger, D. H., (2007), Childhood Family, Ethnicity, and Drug Use over the Life Course, Journal of Marriage and Family, 69: 3, 810-830.

Cubbins, L. A.; Klepinger, D. H., (2007), Family of Origin, Ethnicity, and Drug Use Over the Life Course, Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 810-830.

Bobo, J. K.; Klepinger, D. H.; Dong, F. B., (2006), Changes in the Prevalence of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy among Recent and At-Risk Drinkers in the NLSY Cohort, Journal of Women's Health, 15: 9, 1061-1070.

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