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.
Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2020
Strengthening Relationships Between Noncustodial Fathers and the Mothers of Their Children
- Tova Walsh and Darryl Davidson
- Webinar
- November 20 2019
Understanding benefit cliffs and marginal tax rates
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2019
Aaron Sojourner and Matt Wiswall on the Value of Investments in Quality Child Care
- Aaron Sojourner and Matt Wiswall
- Podcasts
- August 2019
Culture change: Implementing a new approach to child support
- Jennifer L. Noyes, Lisa Klein Vogel, and Lanikque Howard
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019
Can a redesigned child support system do better?
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019
Do low-income noncustodial fathers “trade” earlier families for newer ones?
- Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Angela Guarin, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019
The brain science of poverty and its policy implications
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- June 2019
Cutting the Child Poverty Rate by Half: A Report from the National Academies
- Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt
- Webinar
- May 15 2019
Strategies for Involving and Engaging Fathers in Programming
- Tova Walsh, Lauren Zach, Patrick Fendt, and Darryl Davidson
- Webinar
- March 27 2019