The remarkable transformation of the American social safety net that began in the early
1990s has led to seismic shifts in who benefits and how. More than two decades later, how …

Economic insecurity describes the risk of economic loss faced by workers and households
as they encounter the unpredictable events of social life. Our review suggests a four-part …

The literature on father absence is frequently criticized for its use of cross-sectional data and
methods that fail to take account of possible omitted variable bias and reverse causality. We …

Fatherhood has traditionally been viewed as part of a “package deal” in which a father’s
relationship with his child is contingent on his relationship with the mother. We evaluate the …

This article reports on the influence of neighborhood-level deprivation and collective efficacy
on children’s antisocial behavior between the ages of 5 and 10 years. Latent growth curve …

The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage
jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time—a combination of the …

We use ECLS-K data from a national sample of students to estimate the determinants and
consequences of reading ability group placement in kindergarten and first grade. We find that …

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that the black family was nearing “complete
breakdown” due to high rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing. In subsequent decades, nonmarital …

Adult economic status is positively correlated with parental economic status in every society
for which we have data, but no democratic society is entirely comfortable with this fact. As a …

Mothers in the United States use a combination of employment, public transfers, and private
safety nets to cushion the economic losses of romantic union dissolution, but changes in …