Michael Pollard
Education
Overview
Biography
Michael S. Pollard is a behavioral / social scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research areas include family structure, adolescents, and social relationships and health (physical, mental, and health behaviors). His recent work has focused on the health implications of different types of friendship and romantic relationships. His work has been published in RAND reports as well as in numerous academic journals. Pollard received his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Friendship Networks and Alcohol Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
- Nonmarital Cohabitation in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
- Social Context of Smoking in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Selected Publications
Kennedy, David P., Joan S. Tucker, Michael S. Pollard, Myong-Hyun Go, & Harold D. Green, "Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Change in Smoking Status," Addictive Behaviors, 36:320-326, 2011
Pollard, Michael S., Joan S. Tucker, Harold D. Green, David Kennedy, & Myong-Hyun Go, "Friendship Networks and Trajectories of Adolescent Tobacco Use," Addictive Behaviors, 68:678-685, 2010
Collins, Rebecca L., Michael S. Pollard, Steven M. Asch, & Nicole K. Eberhart "Health Implications," in NDRI, Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy: An Update of RAND's 1993 Study, RAND (MG-1056-OSD), 2010
Davis, Lois M., Michael Pollard, Jeremiah Goulka, Katherine Mack, Russell Lundberg & Paul Steinberg, Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security: Implications of Relaxing the Mailbox Monopoly, RAND (MG-800-USPS), 2008
Pollard, Michael S. and Kathleen Mullan Harris "Measuring Cohabitation in Add Health," in Hofferth, S.L. and L.M. Casper, eds, Handbook of Measurement Issues in Family Research (Hofferth, S.L. and L.M. Casper, eds.) pp 35-52, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum, 2007
Wu, Zheng, Margaret J. Penning, Michael S. Pollard, and Randy Hart, "In Sickness and in Health: Does Cohabitation Count?" Journal of Family Issues, 24:811-838, 2003
Pollard, Michael S. and S. Philip Morgan, "Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth," American Sociological Review, 67:600-613, 2002
Pollard, Michael S. and Zheng Wu, "Divergence of Marriage Patterns in Quebec and Elsewhere in Canada," Population and Development Review, 24:329-356, 1998
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