Julien Teitler

Research

Julien Teitler is Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Social Indicators Survey Center. Teitler received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently was a visiting scholar at the Institut Nationale d'Etudes Demographiques in Paris and a post-doctoral fellow at the Princeton's Office of Population Research. He joined the Columbia faculty in 2000. Teitler's areas of specialization are family demography, social inequality and research methods. He studies how family structure and family relationships interact with school and neighborhood environments to affect youth, particularly youth health and health related behaviors. His most recent publications have focused on the effects of school and neighborhood on adolescents, the effects of father involvement on infant health, the determinants of youth sexual and fertility behavior, and survey research methodology.

Selected Work

• Weiss, C., Teitler, J. 2006. "Parenting Practices as Modifiers and Moderators of Adolescents' Educational Outcomes," in Y. Sugita (ed.) Fluctuation in American Values. Tokyo: Sanwa Shoseki.

• Garfinkel, I., Kaushal, N., Teitler, J., Garcia, S. 2005. "Vulnerability and Resilience: New Yorkers Respond to 9/11," in Foner, N. (ed.) Wounded City: The Social Effects of the World Trade Center Attack on New York City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• Teitler, J. Reichman, N., Nepomnyaschy, L., Martinson, M. A Cross-National Comparison of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Low Birthweight in the United States and England. Forthcoming in Pediatrics.

• Teitler, J., Reichman, N., Nepomnyaschy, L. Individual, City, and State Level Determinants of TANF Participation: A Multilevel Analysis. Forthcoming in Social Service Review.

• Teitler, J., Reichman, N., Koball, H. 2006. Contemporaneous versus retrospective reports of cohabitation in the Fragile Families survey. Journal of Marriage and Family 68:469-477.

• Reichman, N., Teitler, J. 2006. Paternal age as a risk factor for low birth weight. American Journal of Public Health 96(5): 862-866.

• Reichman, N., Teitler, J., Curtis, M. 2005. TANF sanctioning and hardship. Social Service Review 79(2): 215-36.

• Reichman, N., Teitler, J. 2005. Timing of enhanced prenatal care and birth outcomes in New Jersey's HealthStart program. Maternal and Child Health Journal 9(2): 151-158.

See Also

• Research grant: Design and Analysis of "How many X's do you know" Surveys for the Study of Polarization in Social Networks