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Hiromi Ono
Associate Professor
Ph.D., UCLA, 1996

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Current Research Interests: My research explores the linkage between inequality and family transitions over a variety of life course stages, with a focus on contexts of race/ethnicity and gender. Of particular interest to me is marriage. Although an increasing amount of research is devoted to alternatives to marriage, such as cohabitation and singlehood, marriage remains the most prevalent form of union. Marriage as a resource allocation mechanism is also prominent on the public policy agenda as marriage rates decline and more children are raised in single parenthood in industrialized countries. I have developed a line of research linking resources and marriage with several components, each informing the other—I have: a) articulated contextual variation in the relationship between resources and marriage; b) extended the analysis of the relationship to include time, not just money, as a resource and to include a variety of types of unions; c) assessed the influence of resources on child well-being in marriage; and d) have been attempting to further understand the role of race in determining access to social and economic opportunities.

Recent Publications:

Ono, Hiromi and James Raymo (Forthcoming). “Housework, Market Work, and ‘Doing Gender' When Marital Satisfaction Declines.” Social Science Research.

Ono, Hiromi. 2005. “Marital History Homogamy between the Divorced and the Never Married among Non-Hispanic Whites.” Social Science Research.

Ono, Hiromi (Forthcoming). “Assorative Mating of the Divorced and the Never Married in the United States in Recent Decades.” Social Science Research.

David Harris and Hiromi Ono . 2005. “How Many Interracial Marriages Would There Be if All Groups Were of Equal Size in All Places?: A New Look at National Estimates of Interracial Marriage.” Social Science Research. 34(1): 236-251.

Thomas Juster, Hiromi Ono , and Frank Stafford (Alphabetical Order). 2003. “An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use.” Sociological Methodology. 33: 19-54

Ono, Hiromi. 2003. “Women's Economic Resources, Marriage, and Cross-national Contexts of Gender.” Journal of Marriage and the Family. 65: 275-290.

Ono, Hiromi and Ming-ching Louh. 2003. “A Wife's Separate Purse from the Common Pot: Intra-marital Financial Arrangement in Contemporary Japan.” Journal of Family Issues. 24: 381-402.