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.
Vetting and Letting: Cohabiting Stepfamily Formation for Low-Income Black Families
- Megan Reid
- Podcasts
- April 2016
Children’s contact with incarcerated parents
- Julie Poehlmann-Tynan
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2016
The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families
- Clare Huntington
- Podcasts
- November 2015
Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?
- Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- October 2015
Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy
- Daniel Meyer
- Podcasts
- August 2015
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
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
Does discrimination lead to differences in parenting practices?
- Owen Thompson
- Podcasts
- November 2014
Roles and Resources in Complex Families
- Lawrence Berger
- Podcasts
- October 2014
Building human capital and economic potential
- Carolyn J. Heinrich and Timothy M. Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014