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Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Social demography; aging and caregiving; health and well-being; changes in marriage and family formation; inequalities in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently accepting M.A. and Ph.D. students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I use quantitative and qualitative research methods to study diverse questions related to socioeconomic inequalities in aging and caregiving, health and wellbeing, and education. I am also interested in changes in marriage and childbearing and the emergence of new family forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have mentored and supervised many graduate students and acted as a consultant on research design and data analyses. I have taught numerous and wide-ranging courses including research methods, classical sociological theory, power and stratification, sociology of the family, studies in population, studies in urban sociology, women in contemporary Middle Eastern Societies, social statistics, and demographic analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Knoefel, Frank, Salma Mayamuud, and Rania Tfaily<\/strong>. 2022. \u201cDriving Cessation: What Are Family Members\u2019 Experiences and What Do They Think about Driving Simulators.\u201d Geriatrics<\/em> 7(6).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tfaily, Rania. <\/strong>2020.\u201cSpring Babies, Summer Weddings, Fall Divorces and Winter Deaths: Seasons and Populations.\u201d Pp. 207-24 in Seasonal Sociology<\/em>, edited by T. Davidson, and O. Park. Toronto: Toronto University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tfaily, Rania.<\/strong> 2016. \u201cGender, Sibship Composition and Education in Egypt.\u201d Comparative Education Review <\/em>60(3):480-500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tfaily, Rania<\/strong>, Hassan Diab, and Andrzej Kulczycki. 2013. \u201cEducational Disparities and Conflict: Evidence from Lebanon.\u201d Research in Comparative and International Education<\/em> 8(1):55-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reniers, Georges, and Rania Tfaily<\/strong>. 2012. \u201cPolygyny, Partnership Concurrency, and HIV Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa.\u201d Demography<\/em> 49(3):1075-1011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reniers, Georges, Susan C. Watkins, and Rania Tfaily<\/strong>. 2010. \u201cBenign Concurrency in Context and Practice: A Response to Epstein and Stanton.\u201d AIDS<\/em> 24 (11):1792-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tfaily, Rania<\/strong>. 2010. \u201cCross-community Comparability of Attitude Questions: An Application of Item Response Theory.\u201d International Journal of Social Research Methodology<\/em> 13(2):95-110. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prus, Steven G., Rania Tfaily<\/strong>, and Zhiqiu Lin. 2010.\u00a0 \u201cComparing Racial and Immigrant Health Status and Health Care Access in Later Life in Canada and the United States.\u201d Canadian Journal on Aging\/ La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement<\/em> 29(3):383-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No\u00ebl-Miller, Claire, and Rania Tfaily<\/strong>. 2009. \u201cFinancial Transfers to Husbands\u2019 and Wives\u2019 Elderly Mothers in Mexico: Do Couples Exhibit Preferential Treatment by Lineage?\u201d Research on Aging<\/em> 31(6):611-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reniers, Georges, and Rania Tfaily<\/strong>. 2008. \u201cPolygyny and HIV in Malawi.\u201d Demographic Research <\/em>19:1811-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soldo, Beth J., Olivia S. Mitchell, Rania Tfaily<\/strong>, and John D. McCabe. 2007. \u201cCross-cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement.\u201d Pp. 138-58 in Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare?<\/em> edited by B. Madrian, O. S. Mitchell, and B. J. Soldo. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tfaily, Rania<\/strong>. 2005. \u201cDo Women with Higher Autonomy Have Lower Fertility? Evidence from Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.\u201d Genus<\/em> LX(2):7-32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13493,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Rania","cu_people_last_name":"Tfaily","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[39],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-521","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-sociology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor, Associate Chair","cu_people_degree":"PhD (University of Pennsylvania)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"rania.tfaily@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2625","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/521\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}