Laura Lindberg, Senior Research Associate

Laura Duberstein Lindberg joined AGI in February 2004 as a Senior Research Associate. She has published extensively on adolescent sexual behavior, contraceptive use and risk behaviors. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Lindberg worked at Abt Associates in Bethesda, MD, and from 1995 to 2001 she was at the Urban Institute's Population Studies Center in Washington, DC. Laura was one of the key researchers on the 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males, the content of which has been largely absorbed into the newest round of the National Survey of Family Growth. Dr. Lindberg received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan's Sociology Department, having specialized in demography. She also had a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago.

Recent Publications Include:

Santelli, JS, Abma J, Ventura S, Lindberg L, Morrow B, Anderson JE, Lyss S, and Hamilton BE, Can Changes in Sexual Behaviors Among High School Students Explain the Decline in Teen Birth and Pregnancy Rates in the 1990s? Journal of Adolescent Health, 2004, 35:80-90.

Burstein, NR, Lindberg, LD, Fein, DJ, Page, L and LaRock RJ, Guide to Data Sources on the Determinants of Marriage and Cohabitation, 2003, Bethesda, Maryland: Abt Associates, Inc.

Fein, DJ, Burstein, NR, Fein, GG and Lindberg, LD, The Determinants of Marriage and Cohabitation among Disadvantaged Americans: Research Findings and Needs, 2003, Bethesda, Maryland: Abt Associates Inc.

Fein, DJ, Lindberg, LD, London, R. and Mauldon, J. Welfare Reform and Family Formation: Assessing the Effects, 2002, Bethesda, Maryland: Abt Associates Inc.

The Urban Institute, Delivering the Full Message, Enhancing Teen Health and Well-Being, Policy Brief 1, 2002, The Urban Institute: Washington, D.C.

The Urban Institute, Getting Doctors to Focus on Sexual Health of Young Men May, Enhancing Teen Health and Well-Being, Policy Brief 2, 2002, The Urban Institute: Washington, D.C.

Zweig, JM, Phillips S, and Lindberg LD, Predicting Adolescent Profiles of Risk: Looking Beyond Demographics, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2002, 31(4):343-353.

Ku L, St. Louis M, Black C, Aral S, Turner C, Lindberg LD, and Sonenstein FS, Risk Behaviors, Medical Care, and Chlamydial Infection Among Young Men in the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 2002, 92(7):1140-1143.

Zweig JM, Lindberg LD, and McGinley KL, Adolescent Health Risk Profiles: The Co Occurrence of Health Risks Among Females and Males, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2001, 30(6):707-728.

Lindberg LD, Ku L, and Sonenstein FL, Adolescents' Reports of Reproductive Health Education, 1988 and 1995, Family Planning Perspectives, 2000, 32(5):220 226.

Santelli J, Lindberg LD, Abma J, Sucoff C, and Resnick M, Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Estimates and Trends From Four Nationally Representative Surveys, Family Planning Perspectives, 2000, 32(4):156 165,194.

Bradner C, Ku L, and Lindberg LD, Older, but Not Wiser: How Do Men Get AIDS/STD Information After High School, Family Planning Perspectives , 2000, 32(1):33-38.

Lindberg LD, Ku L, and Sonenstein F, Adolescent Males' Combined Use of Condoms with Partners' Use of Female Contraceptive Methods, Maternal and Child Health Journal, 1999, 2(4).

Ku L, Sonenstein F, Boggess S, Lindberg LD, and Pleck J, Understanding Changes in Teenage Men's Sexual Activity: 1979 to 1995, Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, 30(6):256-263.