Fathers’ Socioeconomic Precarity and Mothers’ Ability to Make Ends Meet

Allison Dwyer Emory; Lenna Nepomnyaschy; Maureen R. Waller; Daniel P. Miller

doi:10.7758/RSF.2026.12.2.06

Article Information

vol. 12 no. 2 140-170

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.2.06

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 13, 2026.

© 2026 Russell Sage Foundation. Dwyer Emory, Allison, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Maureen R. Waller, and Daniel P. Miller. 2026. “Fathers’ Socioeconomic Precarity and Mothers’ Ability to Make Ends Meet.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 12(2): 140–70. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.2.06. Direct correspondence to: Allison Dwyer Emory, at ademory{at}buffalo.edu, 464 Park Hall, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4140, United States; Lenna Nepomnyaschy, at lennan{at}ssw.rutgers.edu, School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States; Maureen R. Waller, at waller{at}cornell.edu, Brooks School of Public Policy, 3225 MVR Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States; or Daniel P. Miller at dpmiller{at}bu.edu, Boston University School of Social Work, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Allison Dwyer Emory^a,
Lenna Nepomnyaschy^b,
Maureen R. Waller^c and
Daniel P. Miller^d

^aAssistant professor of sociology and criminology at the University at Buffalo, United States
^bProfessor of social work at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
^cProfessor of public policy and sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
^dProfessor at the Boston University School of Social Work, United States

Correspondence authors:
Allison Dwyer Emory, (ademory{at}buffalo.edu), Lenna Nepomnyaschy, (lennan{at}ssw.rutgers.edu), Maureen R. Waller, (waller{at}cornell.edu), Daniel P. Miller (dpmiller{at}bu.edu)

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