I hold a PhD in Sociology from New York University and specialize in domestic and international research in family demography, reproductive, maternal, and infant health, mortality, and aging.
A large part of my work focuses on the demographic and health consequences of disruptions to social contexts in the United States and Mexico. One of my lines of research investigates the relationship between the opioid epidemic and fertility, family formation, and family structures in the United States. Another set of projects assesses the effect of community violence on health and family formation and stability in Mexico. My projects in this area of work focus on how outcomes such as union formation and dissolution, suicide, and reproductive and maternal health change during violent periods in that country. In addition, I am currently conducting work on how exposure to community violence shapes different dimensions of aging, such as cognitive decline and reproductive aging, and the latter’s implications for broader demographic trends in Mexico and the United States.
Areas of Interest
- Family demography; Reproductive health; Maternal and infant health; Aging; Contextual stressors
Degrees
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PhDSociology, New York University, 2017
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MASociology, New York University, 2015
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LicenciadaPolitical Science and International Relations, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2008
Mónica L. Caudillo and Jaein Lee. “Does Community Violence Predict Higher Suicide Rates? The Case of Mexico.” Forthcoming. Population and Development Review.
Svallfors, Signe, Mónica L. Caudillo, and Orsola Torrisi. 2025. “The Consequences of Community Violence for Contraceptive Use and Provision in Mexico.” Demography.
Caudillo, Mónica L., Andrés Villarreal and Florencia Torche. 2025. “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Preterm Birth in Mexico. “ Population and Development Review.
Caudillo, Mónica L., Fatima Zahra, and Michael S. Rendall. 2025. “How and What Do Women Learn About Contraception? A Latent Class Analysis of Adolescents and Adult Women in Delaware. “ Women’s Health Reports. 6:1, pp.136-146.
Caudillo, Mónica L., Seungwan Kim,* Jaein Lee,* and Jingwen Liu.* 2024. ”Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Dyadic Pregnancy Intentions Preceding Births in the United States.” Population Research and Policy Review. 43(13).
Weitzman, Abigail, Mónica L. Caudillo, and Eldad Levy. 2024. “Hybrid Interpersonal Violence in Latin America: Patterns and Causes.” Annual Review of Criminology. 7:163-186.
Liao, Janny, Henning Schröder, Elliot Chin, Muideen Owolabi Bakare, Ramaele Moshoeshoe, Mónica L. Caudillo, Kerim M. Munir, Jan-Walter De Neve. 2023. “The effect of school-entry age on health is understudied in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review and future directions for research.” SSM – Population Health. (Published online May 2023)
Caudillo, Mónica L. and Jaein Lee. “Community Violence and the Instability of Marriages and Cohabitations in Mexico.” 2023. Social Forces. (Published online January 2023)
Caudillo, Mónica L., Andrés Villarreal, and Philip N. Cohen. 2022. “The Opioid Epidemic and Children’s Living Arrangements in the United States, 2000-2018.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 703(1), pp.162-187. (Published online March 2023)
Caudillo, Mónica L. and Jaein Lee. 2022. “Local Violence and Transitions to Cohabitation and Marriage in Mexico.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 85(2), pp.345-369. (Published online October 2022)
Caudillo, Mónica L., Constanza Hurtado-Acuna, Michael Rendall and Michel Boudreaux. 2022. “Association of the Delaware Contraceptive Access Now Initiative with Postpartum LARC Use.” Maternal and Child Health Journal. 26:1657–1666.
Caudillo, Mónica L. and Andrés Villarreal. 2021. “The Opioid Epidemic and Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 2000-2016.” Demography. 58 (1): 345–378.
Mishel, Emma, Tristan Bridges, and Mónica L. Caudillo. 2021. “GOOGLE, TELL ME. IS HE GAY?: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Gendered Anxieties in Google Search Queries about Sexuality.” Sociological Perspectives.
Caudillo, Mónica L., Shelby N. Hickman, and Sally Simpson. 2020. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Relationship Between Risk-Taking and the Effectiveness of Adolescents’ Contraceptive Use.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 52(4).
Rendall, Michael S., Eowna Young Harrison, and Mónica L. Caudillo. 2020. “Intentionally or Ambivalently Risking a Short Inter-pregnancy Interval: Reproductive Readiness Factors in Women’s Postpartum Non-Use of Contraception.” Demography. 57: 821–841.
Mishel, E., Paula England, Jessie Ford, and Mónica L. Caudillo. 2020. “Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners: Do Trends Vary by Gender, Race, and Class?.” Gender & Society. 34(2): 178-209.
Caudillo, Mónica L. 2019. “School Progression Relative to Age and Family-Related Transitions Among Teenagers in Mexico.” Demography. 56: 863–890.
Caudillo, Mónica L. 2017. “How Does the Personal Become Political? Assessing the Impact of Maternal Employment on Daughters’ and Sons’ Political Skills and Behavior.” Social Science Research. 64: 119-136.
Paula England, Emma Mishel, and Mónica L. Caudillo. 2016. “Increases in Sex with Same-Sex Partners and Bisexual Identity Across Cohorts of Women (but Not Men).” Sociological Science. Nov. 7th.
England, Paula, Mónica L. Caudillo, Krystale Littlejohn, Brooke Conroy Bass, and Joanna Reed. 2016. “Why Do Young, Unmarried Women Who Don’t Want to Get Pregnant Contracept Inconsistently? Mixed-Method Evidence for the Role of Efficacy.” Socius. 2:1-15.
Caudillo, Mónica L. and Florencia Torche. 2014. “Exposure to Local Homicides and Early Educational Achievement in Mexico.” Sociology of Education 87(2): 89-105.
Reed, Joanna, Paula England, Krystale Littlejohn, Brooke Conroy Bass, and Mónica L. Caudillo. 2014. “Consistent and Inconsistent Contraception Among Young Women: Insights from Qualitative Interviews.” Family Relations 63(2): 244-258.
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