Publications
Dr. Kuperberg's research has examined a number of topics related to families and romantic and sexual relationships, including publications on cohabitation, marriage, divorce, stay-at-home mothers and fathers, college hookups, dates and relationships, sexual partnerships, childbearing, and the impact of student loans on young adulthood.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
21. Kuperberg, Arielle. 2023. "Families, Relationships, and Paying for College." Journal of Student Financial Aid. 52(2).
20. Kuperberg, Arielle, Kenneshia Williams and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2023. "Student Loans, Physical and Mental Health, and Health Care Use and Delay in College." Journal of American College Health.
19. Kuperberg, Arielle, Pamela Stone and Torie Lucas. 2022. "'He's a Mr. Mom:' Cultural Ambivalence in Print News Depictions of Stay-at-home Fathers, 1987-2016." Gender & Society.
18. Kuperberg, Arielle and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2022. "Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation." Sociological Inquiry. 92(1): 90-126.
17. Mazelis, Joan Maya and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. "Student Loan Debt, Family Support, and Reciprocity in the Transition to Adulthood." Emerging Adulthood.
16. Walker, Alicia M. and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. "Pathways and Patterns of Entry into BDSM." Archives of Sexual Behavior. 51(2): 1045-1062.
15. Manning, Wendy, Pamela J. Smock and Arielle Kuperberg. 2021. “Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: A Comment on Rosenfield and Roseler (2019).” Journal of Marriage and Family. 83(1): 260-267.
14. Thorpe, Shemeka, Amanda E. Tanner, Tracy R. Nichols, Arielle Kuperberg and Erica Payton Foh. 2021. "Black Adolescent Women's Sexuality: Pleasure Expectancies, Sexual Guilt, and Age of Sexual Debut." American Journal of Sexuality Education. 16(2): 199-220.
13. Thorpe, Shemeka and Arielle Kuperberg. 2021. “Social Motivations for College Hookups” Sexuality & Culture. 25(2): 623-645.
12. Thorpe, Shemeka, Tracy R. Nichols, Amanda E. Tanner, Arielle Kuperberg, and Erica Payton Foh. 2021. “Relational and Partner-specific Factors Influencing Black Heterosexual Women's Initiation of Sexual Intercourse and Orgasm Frequency.” Sexuality & Culture. 25(2), 503-524.
11. Kuperberg, Arielle. 2019. "Premarital Cohabitation and Direct Marriage in the United States, 1956-2015." Marriage & Family Review. 55(5): 447-475. PDF
10. Kuperberg, Arielle and Alicia M. Walker. 2018. "Heterosexual College Students who Hookup with Same-Sex Partners." Archives of Sexual Behavior. 47(5): 1387-1403. PDF
9. Kuperberg, Arielle and Joseph E. Padgett. 2017. "Partner Meeting Contexts and Risky Activity During College Student's Other-Sex and Same-Sex Hookups." The Journal of Sex Research, 54(1): 55-72 PDF
8. Kuperberg, Arielle and Joseph E. Padgett. 2016. "The Role of Culture in Explaining College Student's Selection into Hookups, Dates and Long-term Relationships." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33(8): 1070-1096 PDF
7. Kuperberg, Arielle and Joseph E. Padgett. 2015. "Dating and Hooking up in College; Meeting Contexts, Sex, and Variation by Gender, Partner’s Gender and Class Standing" The Journal of Sex Research, 52(5): 517-531. PDF
6. Kuperberg, Arielle. 2014. "Age at Coresidence, Premarital Cohabitation and Marriage Dissolution: 1985-2009" Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(2): 352-369. PDF
5. Kuperberg, Arielle. 2012. "Reassessing Differences in Work and Income in Cohabitation and Marriage" Journal of Marriage and Family, 74(4): 688-707 PDF
4. Harknett, Kristen and Arielle Kuperberg. 2011. "Education, Labor Markets and the Retreat from Marriage." Social Forces 90(1): 41-63 PDF
3. Kuperberg, Arielle. 2009. "Motherhood and Graduate Education, 1970-2000" Population Research and Policy Review. 28(4): 473-504 PDF
2. Kuperberg, Arielle and Pamela Stone. 2008. “The Media Depiction of Women Who Opt Out” Gender & Society, 22(4): 497-517. PDF
1. Stone, Pamela and Arielle Kuperberg. 2006. "Anti-Discrimination vs. Anti-Poverty: An Analysis of Pay Equity and Living Wage Reforms." Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 27(3/4): 23-39. PDF
Dissertation
Kuperberg, Arielle T. 2010. "Till Death Do us Part or the Lease Runs Out: A Reassessment of Cohabitation and Marriage in the United States" Publicly accessible Penn Dissertations. Paper 126.
Other Publications
Kuperberg, Arielle and Joan Maya Mazelis. Forthcoming 2023. “Student Loans, Families, and the Unequal Transition to Adulthood.” P. 506-520 in Families as They Really Are, 3rd edition. Eds. Virginia Rutter, Kristi Williams and Barbara Risman, Norton & Co.
Kuperberg, Arielle and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2023. College Students with Loans more Likely to Report Bad Health and Skip Medicine and Care, Study Finds. Research Brief in The Conversation.
Joan Maya Mazelis and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. If Biden won't cancel student loan debt, congress should cancel the interest. Op-ed in The Hill.
Mazelis, Joan Maya and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. “I just feel like you can’t be grown up living with your parents:” Student loans and family help after college graduation. Council on Contemporary Families Blog at The Society Pages, May 24th.
Kuperberg, Arielle and Pamela Stone. 2022. More Dads are Home Taking Care of Kids Than Ever Before – Are Views About Gender and Work Changing? Gender & Society Blog, April 20th.
Kuperberg, Arielle and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2021. The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on how Student Loans Affect their Lives -- And What they Would Do Differently if it were Forgiven. Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2018. Cohabitation and Divorce: The Importance of Accounting for Age at Coresidence. Council on Contemporary Families Blog @ The Society Pages.
Kuperberg, Arielle and Rachel Allison. 2018. "Gender and Hooking Up." P. 315 - 327 in Handbook on the Sociology of Gender
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2018. From Countercultural Trend to Strategy for the Financially Insecure: Premarital Cohabitation and Premarital Cohabitors, 1956-2015. Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2018. 50 years since the LeClair Affair: Is Living Together Before Marriage a Problem? Council on Contemporary Families Blog @ The Society Pages.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2017. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Scatterplot Blog, Reprinted at the Council on Contemporary Families Blog @ The Society Pages.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2016. "Promoting your research using social media." In Promoting Sociological Research: A toolkit. American Sociological Association.
Kuperberg, Arielle and Joseph E. Padgett. 2016. “The Date’s Not Dead After All: New Findings on Hooking up, Dating and Romantic Relationships on Campus.” Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2015. "First comes love, then comes...housework?" Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2014. "Cohabitation" The Social History of the American Family, Sage Publications.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2014. “Cohabiting isn’t what it used to be” Council on Contemporary Families Blog @ The Society Pages.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2014. “Book Review: What Works For Woman at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan Williams and Rachel Dempsey.” Gender & Society, 28(5): 785-787.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2014 "Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Your Risk of Divorce?" with expert commentaries from Sharon Sassler, Kristi Williams, Evelyn Lehrer and Stephanie Coontz." Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report. Reprinted at The Society Pages (website, Oct. 2014) and Families as They Really Are, 2nd edition, Norton, Editors Barbara Risman and Virginia Rutter (2014).
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2013. "Opting-out" Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, Sage Publications.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2009. "Women with PhDs Speak Out About Motherhood: Review of Mama PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life and Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak out." Women’s Studies Quarterly 37 (3/4).
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2006. “Abstract: Parenthood and the Pursuit of Postgraduate Education, 1970-2000.” In “Sex and Gender Graduate Student Showcase.” Sex and Gender News (ASA Section Newsletter), May: 7.
Kuperberg, Arielle. 2003 “Westernization and Women’s Bodies: An Analysis of Chinese Magazines.” Hunter Review: 6 (Spring): 41-47.