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

Gray E, Evans A and R Kippen. 2007. Generational differences in parity progression: The role of sex composition of children. ADSRI Working Papers (No. 2). Canberra, The Australian National University. (PDF-202kb)

Gray E, Kippen R and A Evans. 2007. A boy for you and a girl for me: Do men want sons and women want daughters? People and Place. 15(4):

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. (PDF-93kb)

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. (PDF-62kb)

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. (PDF)

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. (PDF)

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. (PDF)

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).