Dr Ann Evans

Fellow and Academic Convenor

T: +61 2 6125 0133
E: Ann.Evans@anu.edu.au
Room 3214, Coombs Building

Research Interests

Ann’s primary research interest lies in the area of family demography. She is currently undertaking research in the following areas:

• Cohabitation
• Relationship formation and dissolution
• Fertility and contraception
• Young motherhood
• Transition to adulthood

Teaching

Ann is currently teaching a quantitative methods course in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute:

DEMO8014 Survey Data Analysis

Current projects

• Second time around - Understanding the institution of repartnering in Australia
• Social exclusion and teenage motherhood
• Do Australian parents want both a son and a daughter?
• Negotiating the Life Course Project
  

Selected publications

Fussell E, Gauthier A and A Evans. 2007. Heterogeneity in the Transition to Adulthood: The Cases of Australia, Canada and the United States. European Journal of Population 23(3,4): 389-414.

Evans A. 2007. Australia. Chapter 2 in: Billari, F.C.; Caltabiano, M.; Dalla Zuanna, G. (Eds.): Sexual and affective behaviour of students: an international comparative study. Padova: CLEUP Editrice.

Kippen R, Evans A and E Gray. 2007. Parental preference for sons and daughters in a Western industrial setting. Journal of Biosocial Science 39(4):583-597.

Razzaque A, Streatfield PK. and A Evans. 2007. Family size and children’s education in Matlab, Bangladesh. Journal of Biosocial Science 39(2): 245-256.

Kippen R, Evans A and E Gray. 2006. Parental Desire for Sons and Daughters in a Western Industrial Setting: Evidence and Implications. Working Papers in Demography (No. 98). Canberra, Australian National University.

Evans A and E Gray. 2005. What makes an Australian family? Chapter 2 in Wilson, S. et al. Australian Social Attitudes: The First Report. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Evans A and E Gray. 2005. Parity progression in Australia: What role does sex of existing children play? Australian Journal of Social Issues 40(4): 505-520.

Kippen R, Gray E and A Evans. 2005. The impact on Australian fertility of wanting one of each. People and Place 13(2): 12-21.

Evans A. 2005. Psychosocial aspects of teenage pregnancy resolution. Working Papers in Demography (No. 96). Canberra, Australian National University.

Evans A. 2004. Education and the resolution of teenage pregnancy in Australia. Health Sociology Review 13(1): 27-42.

Gray E and A Evans. 2004. Sex composition of children as a determinant of parity progression. Negotiating the Life Course Discussion Paper Series NLCDP-018. Canberra, Australian National University.

Evans A. 2003. The outcome of teenage pregnancy: Temporal and spatial trends. People and Place 11(2): 39-49.

Gray E, McDonald P, and A Evans. 2003. Demographic data in Australia. Australian Economic Review 36(2): 235-244.

Evans A and P McDonald. 2003. Individual demographic transitions. Negotiating the Life Course Discussion Paper Series NLCDP-013. Canberra, Australian National University.

Evans A. 2001. Motherhood or Abortion: Pregnancy resolution decisions of Australian teenagers. PhD Thesis. Australian National University.

Evans A. 2001. The influence of significant others on Australian teenagers’ decisions about pregnancy resolution. Family Planning Perspectives 33(5): 224-230.

Evans A. 2001. The sexual behaviour of young women. HealthSharing Women 12(2).

Evans A. 2000. Power and negotiation: Young women’s choices about sex and contraception. Journal of Population Research 17(2): 143-162.

Evans A, Booth H and K Cashel. 2000. Socio-demographic determinants of energy, fat and dietary fibre intake in Australian adults. Public Health Nutrition. 3(1): 67-75.

McDonald P, Evans A, Baxter J and E Gray. 2000. The Negotiating the Life Course Survey Experience. Negotiating the Life Course Discussion Paper Series NLCDP-001. Canberra, Australian National University.

Evans A and E Gray (1999) Introduction to SPSS for windows-Course notes. September 1999.

Evans A, Moyle H and P Meyer. 1998. Trends in long day care services for children in Australia 1991-1995. Canberra: AIHW. (Welfare Division Working Paper No. 18).

Evans A, Mathur S and D Gibson. 1997. Community aged care packages: How do they compare? Canberra: DHFS. (Aged and Community Care Service Development and Evaluation Report No. 32).

Moyle H, Meyer P and A Evans. 1997. Outside school hours care services in Australia 1996. Canberra: AIHW. (Children’s Services Series No. 3).

Moyle H, Meyer P, Golley L and A Evans. 1996. Children’s Services in Australia 1996: Services for children under school age. Canberra: AIHW. (Children’s Services Series No. 2).