Family & Partnering

Family life and economic status are closely intertwined. Fertility, family formation, family structure, parental relationship dissolution, multiple-partner fertility, and family complexity patterns vary by socioeconomic status, as do parenting behaviors and the quality of children’s home environments. The family contexts in which children are born and raised are, in turn, associated with their own economic and social well-being throughout their lives.

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Which Families Are Poor and Why?

  • Poverty Fact Sheet
  • 2016
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How Economic and Social Disadvantage Affects Health and Life Opportunities

  • Geoffrey Swain, Sheri Johnson, and Katie Ports
  • Webinar
  • 2016
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Financial Security: How to Measure it and Why it Matters for Families

  • Caroline Ratcliffe and J. Michael Collins
  • Webinar
  • 2016
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Vetting and Letting: Cohabiting Stepfamily Formation for Low-Income Black Families

  • Megan Reid
  • Podcasts
  • 2016
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Children’s contact with incarcerated parents

  • Julie Poehlmann-Tynan
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2016
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Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men

  • Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2016
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The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families

  • Clare Huntington
  • Podcasts
  • 2015
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Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?

  • Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas 
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2015
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Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy

  • Daniel Meyer
  • Podcasts
  • 2015
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How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program

  • Sharon Wolf, J. Lawrence Aber, and Pamela A. Morris
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2015