Kathryn Edin
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American sociologist
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Kathryn Edin's Degrees
- PhD Sociology Northwestern University
- Masters Sociology Northwestern University
- Bachelors Sociology Northwestern University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kathryn J. Edin, is an American sociologist and a professor of sociology and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She specializes in the study of people living on welfare. Two of her books are Making ends meet: how single mothers survive welfare and low-wage work, and Promises I can keep: why poor women put motherhood before marriage.
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Published Works
- Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (2005) (1260)
- But for the Grace of Birth, There Go I@@@Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work (1998) (596)
- High hopes but even higher expectations: The retreat from marriage among low-income couples. (2005) (552)
- What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say about Marriage? (2000) (359)
- Work, welfare, and single mothers' economic survival strategies (1997) (322)
- Parenting as A “package deal”: Relationships, fertility, and nonresident father involvement among unmarried parents (2010) (291)
- Making Ends Meet (1997) (204)
- Moving Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: How Girls Fare Better than Boys (2011) (170)
- Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men (2009) (165)
- A peek inside the black box: What marriage means for poor unmarried parents (2004) (148)
- Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review (2010) (144)
- The Health of Nations (141)
- Welfare Reform, Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Child Well-Being* (2004) (102)
- Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City (2013) (100)
- Rising Extreme Poverty in the United States and the Response of Federal Means-Tested Transfer Programs (2013) (98)
- SNAP Food Security In-Depth Interview Study (2013) (98)
- Unstable Work, Unstable Income: Implications for Family Well-Being in the Era of Time-Limited Welfare (2004) (96)
- Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment: Results from a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment in Baltimore (2006) (82)
- Dignity and Dreams (2015) (77)
- The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households (2012) (75)
- Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago (1991) (74)
- Promises I Can Keep (2019) (73)
- Is Work Enough? The Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Mothers Who Work. (2001) (70)
- MY CHILDREN COME FIRST: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Marriage (1999) (69)
- A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States (2018) (69)
- Single mothers and child support: The possibilities and limits of child support policy (1995) (68)
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (2015) (65)
- Big Cities and Welfare Reform: Early Implementation and Ethnographic Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change. (1999) (64)
- Participation in a residential mobility program from the client's perspective: Findings from Gautreaux Two (2005) (62)
- The Myths of Dependence and Self-Sufficiency: Women, Welfare, and Low-Wage Work. (1995) (60)
- Forming fragile families: Was the baby planned, unplanned, or in between? (2007) (60)
- Welfare Reform in Philadelphia: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods (2003) (58)
- Why Do Poor Men Have Children? Fertility Intentions among Low-Income Unmarried U.S. Fathers (2009) (58)
- Moving At-Risk Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: Why Girls Fare Better Than Boys (2006) (57)
- The durability of gains from the Gautreaux Two residential mobility program: a qualitative analysis of who stays and who moves from low-poverty neighborhoods* (2010) (56)
- Looking to the future: Welfare-reliant women talk about their job aspirations in the context of welfare reform (2000) (54)
- Constrained Compliance: Solving the Puzzle of MTO's Lease-Up Rates and Why Mobility Matters (2012) (52)
- The Social Safety Net After Welfare Reform: Recent Developments and Consequences for Household Dynamics (2017) (45)
- Unmarried Couples with Children (2007) (44)
- It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World (2015) (41)
- The Family-Go-Round (2014) (38)
- The private safety net: The role of charitable organizations in the lives of the poor (1998) (38)
- After Moving to Opportunity (2013) (36)
- Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States (2015) (34)
- The Compositional and Institutional Sources of Union Dissolution for Married and Unmarried Parents in the United States (2013) (33)
- It's Not Like I'm Poor (2019) (33)
- Taking Stock: What Drives Landlord Participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (2018) (33)
- Eviction in early childhood and neighborhood poverty, food security, and obesity in later childhood and adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort (2020) (30)
- How Much In-Kind Support Do Low-Income Nonresident Fathers Provide? A Mixed-Method Analysis. (2015) (30)
- More than money: The role of assets in the survival strategies and material well-being of the poor (2005) (29)
- There's a lot of month left at the end of the money : how welfare recipients make ends meet in Chicago (1993) (28)
- The Relationship Contexts of Young Disadvantaged Men (2011) (25)
- "Making a Way Out of No Way" How Mothers Meet Basic Family Needs While Moving from Welfare to Work (2003) (24)
- Becoming a Parent: The Social Contexts of Fertility During Young Adulthood (2012) (22)
- The Decline of Cash Assistance and the Well-Being of Poor Households with Children (2019) (22)
- The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men (2019) (21)
- In Their Own Voices: The Hopes and Struggles of Responsible Fatherhood Program Participants in the Parents and Children Together Evaluation (2015) (21)
- Severe Housing Insecurity during Pregnancy: Association with Adverse Birth and Infant Outcomes (2020) (18)
- The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings (2018) (17)
- Unmarried couples with children: Hoping for love and the white picket Fence (2007) (16)
- Unmarried with Children (2005) (16)
- Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: Housing Search Logics and Residential Selection (2019) (15)
- Private Equity at Work (2017) (14)
- “As Good as Money in the Bank”: Building a Personal Safety Net with the Earned Income Tax Credit (2019) (13)
- Counting Chicago's Homeless (1992) (12)
- Taking Care of Mine: Can Child Support Become a Family-Building Institution? (2019) (11)
- Coming of Age in the Other America (2016) (11)
- Relationship Repertoires, the Price of Parenthood, and the Costs of Contraception (2016) (10)
- Does Time with Dad in Childhood Pay Off in Adolescence? (2020) (9)
- Welfare to work : opportunities and pitfalls : congressional seminar, March 10, 1997 (1998) (7)
- Special Symposium on Qualitative and Mixed‐Methods for Policy Analysis (2014) (7)
- Mixed-Income Housing (2009) (7)
- A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty (2017) (6)
- Experimenting with Social Norms (2014) (6)
- Pathways to Participation: Class Disparities in Youth Civic Engagement (2016) (5)
- Redefining Relationships: Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Parenting * (2012) (5)
- The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States (2018) (5)
- Changing the culture of the welfare office: the role of intermediaries in linking TANF recipients with jobs - commentary (2001) (4)
- Re-thinking Stepfathers’ Contributions: Fathers, Stepfathers, and Child Wellbeing (2021) (4)
- Research Design for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing (2009) (4)
- 6. “I Do Me”: Young Black Men and the Struggle to Resist the Street (2015) (3)
- The Diverging Destinies of Fathers and What it Means for Children’s Lives (2015) (3)
- Taking care of business: The economic survival strategies of low-income, noncustodial fathers (2007) (3)
- A Renewed Sense of Purpose (2016) (3)
- The Decline of Cash Assistance and the Well-Being of Households with Children (2018) (2)
- Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood by Elaine Bell Kaplan:Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood (1998) (2)
- IN THE BUDGETS OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES (2012) (2)
- “Whatever they need”: Helping poor children through in-kind support. (2020) (2)
- Unmarried Couples with Children: Why Don’t They Marry? How Can Policy Makers Promote More Stable Relationships? (2010) (2)
- Session 3: Administering Welfare Policy in New York and the Nation (2001) (2)
- Parenting as a “ Package Deal ” : Trajectories of Child Involvement among Unmarried Fathers * (2008) (2)
- 1. Family Budgets: Staying in the Black, Slipping into the Red (2019) (1)
- A Hand Up for Low-Income Families (2016) (1)
- Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood? (2022) (1)
- Low-income, non-residential fathers: mexican-american fathers in the border area (1998) (1)
- Low-Income Urban Fathers and the “Package Deal” of Family Life (2018) (1)
- Severe housing insecurity in pregnancy: Association with adverse birth outcomes in a cohort of urban mothers and infants (2019) (1)
- Chapter Four. Daddy, Baby; Momma, Maybe (2020) (1)
- Time, Love, and Cash in Couples With Children Study (TLC3) [United States], 2000-2005: Version 2 (2011) (1)
- Uncertain Adulthood: What becoming an adult means for urban non-college youth (2005) (1)
- TWO. " WHEN I GOT PREGNANT .. " (2019) (0)
- APPENDIX B. INTERVIEW GUIDE (2019) (0)
- The Experience of Poverty U . S . Poverty in Perspective : (2018) (0)
- PREFACE TO THE 2011 EDITION (2019) (0)
- SEVEN. Try, Try Again (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- SIX. Fight or Flight (2019) (0)
- Neighborhood Disadvantage and Perceived Social Support from Kin Networks (2006) (0)
- 2. Tax Time (2019) (0)
- FOUR. WHAT MARRIAGE MEANS (2019) (0)
- Time, Love, and Cash in Couples With Children Study (TLC3) [United States], 2000-2005: Archival Version (2008) (0)
- FIVE. Sesame Street Mornings (2019) (0)
- Brief Notices (2013) (0)
- FIVE. LABOR OF LOVE (2019) (0)
- "Engaging the Interracial Family Tree: A Multidimensional Perspective on Racial (2005) (0)
- Note from the editor (2010) (0)
- American Family Diaries: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING BARRIERS TO OPPORTUNITY (2018) (0)
- FOUR. Ward Cleaver (2019) (0)
- Research Report for the Work Support and Family Stability Act: Legal Services of New Jersey (1996) (0)
- Why don’t welfare-reliant mothers go to work? (2018) (0)
- Illustrations and Tables (2019) (0)
- Poverty's Human Face (1997) (0)
- EIGHT. The New Package Deal (2019) (0)
- SIX. HOW MOTHERHOOD CHANGED MY LIFE (2019) (0)
- THREE. HOW DOES THE DREAM DIE? (2019) (0)
- Earning the Role: Father Role Institutionalization and the Achievement of Contemporary Fatherhood (2023) (0)
- THREE. The Stupid Shit (2019) (0)
- ONE. " BEFORE WE HAD A BABY .. " (2019) (0)
- 6. Capitalizing on the Promise of the EITC (2019) (0)
- Appendix B: Qualitative Interview Guide (2019) (0)
- Family and poverty: recent findings from a mixed-methods study (2009) (0)
- 5. “Debt—I Am Hoping to Eliminate That Word!” (2019) (0)
- ONE. One Thing Leads to Another (2019) (0)
- Research Designs for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing: Social Science Research Council (2009) (0)
- University of Michigan Seminar on Poverty Research (2005) (0)
- Appendix A: Introduction to Boston and the Research Project (2019) (0)
- APPENDIX A. CITY, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS (2019) (0)
- CONCLUSION. MAKING SENSE OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD (2019) (0)
- Volume Information (1996) (0)
- TWO. Thank You, Jesus (2019) (0)
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