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Alexandra Killewald

Professor of Sociology and Research Professor, University of Michigan
Verified email at umich.edu
Cited by 4193

Wealth inequality and accumulation

A Killewald, FT Pfeffer… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have
expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid …

A reconsideration of the fatherhood premium: Marriage, coresidence, biology, and fathers' wages

A Killewald - American sociological review, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Past research that asserts a fatherhood wage premium often ignores the heterogeneity of
fathering contexts. I expect fatherhood to produce wage gains for men if it prompts them to alter …

Money, work, and marital stability: Assessing change in the gendered determinants of divorce

A Killewald - American Sociological Review, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite a large literature investigating how spouses’ earnings and division of labor relate to
their risk of divorce, findings remain mixed and conclusions elusive. Core unresolved …

Is the motherhood penalty larger for low-wage women? A comment on quantile regression

A Killewald, J Bearak - American sociological review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this comment, we offer a nontechnical discussion of conventional (conditional) multivariate
quantile regression, with an emphasis on the appropriate interpretation of results. We …

Does specialization explain marriage penalties and premiums?

A Killewald, M Gough - American sociological review, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Married men’s wage premium is often attributed to within-household specialization: men can
devote more effort to wage-earning when their wives assume responsibility for household …

Money isn't everything: Wives' earnings and housework time

A Killewald, M Gough - Social science research, 2010 - Elsevier
The autonomy perspective of housework time predicts that wives’ housework time falls steadily
as their earnings rise, because wives use additional financial resources to outsource or …

Tethered lives: A couple-based perspective on the consequences of parenthood for time use, occupation, and wages

A Killewald, J García-Manglano - Social Science Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Prior research on parenthood effects has typically used single-sex models and estimated
average effects. By contrast, we estimate population-level variability in partners' changes in …

US mothers' long-term employment patterns

A Killewald, X Zhuo - Demography, 2019 - read.dukeupress.edu
Previous research on maternal employment has disproportionately focused on the immediate
postpartum period and typically modeled either cross-sectional employment status or time …

Generations of advantage. Multigenerational correlations in family wealth

FT Pfeffer, A Killewald - Social Forces, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Inequality in family wealth is high, yet we know little about how much and how wealth
inequality is maintained across generations. We argue that a long-term perspective reflective of …

Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts

J Furgeson, B Gill, J Haimson, A Killewald… - … Policy Research, Inc., 2012 - ERIC
Charter schools--public schools of choice that are operated autonomously, outside the direct
control of local school districts--have become more prevalent over the past two decades. …