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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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
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Does discrimination lead to differences in parenting practices?

  • Owen Thompson
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Roles and Resources in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Building human capital and economic potential

  • Carolyn J. Heinrich and Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Building Economic Self-Sufficiency

  • Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014