Family Structure

Janet Gornick, Sarah K. Bruch of the University of Delaware, and Graduate Center Sociology Ph.D. student Joseph van der Naald, have begun work on a sponsored project funded by Social Security Administration (SSA) through a newly created national research center.

L. Azzollini, R. Breen, and B. Nolan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 80. 2023.

When the enhanced Child Tax Credit of 2021 was not renewed by Congress, millions of American children fell back into poverty. A panel moderated by Carol Jenkins and featuring Regina S. Baker, Kathryn J. Edin, Janet Gornick, and Zachary Parolin discusses what we can and should do now.

Research by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Regina S. Baker of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Heather A. O’Connell of Louisiana State University analyzes the impact of structural racism on poverty among single-mother and married-parent households in the U.S. South.

In this post, Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic discuss the results of their study, "In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data,” an examination of what underlies the high level of income inequality in the U.S.

A discussion of the latest volume of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, which focuses on on single-parent families and the best approaches to support them. Janet Gornick, director of the Stone Center, presents an overview of the research.

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.

In this research spotlight, a study by Florencia Torche and Alejandra Abufhele examines whether the benefits of parents’ marital status for children depend on the social context.

In this research spotlight, a study by Jaquelyn Jahn and her coauthors looks at how living in an area with high rates of incarceration increases the risk of preterm birth among Black and white women.

In this presentation, Miles Corak describes how the advantages and disadvantages of family background are passed down from one generation to the next, perpetuating inequality.