Publications
2026
The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
Sociological ScienceParents’ precarious work schedules and children’s asthma management
BMC Public HealthWork Schedule Instability and the Production of Parental Stress and Parenting Time
Social Service Review2024
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality
Work, Employment, and Society2022
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures
American Sociological ReviewParenting without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict
RSF Journal of Social SciencesMaternal Exposure to Work Schedule Unpredictability and Child Behavior
Journal of Marriage and Family2021
Family Structure and Financial Investments in Children: Commitment and Resources
Journal of Marriage and Family2020
Close to the Edge: Service Workers and Their Children at the Front Lines of a Crisis
William T. Grant Foundation Blog.2019
2018
Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investment
American Sociological Review2017
The Effects of the Great Recession on American Families.
Sociology CompassNon-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences2016
The Great Recession and Parental Relationships
Russell Sage FoundationThe Surprising Decline in the Non-Marital Fertility Rate: Description and Preliminary Explanation
Population and Development Review2015
Lessons Learned from Non-Marriage Experiments
Future of ChildrenThe Great Recession, Fertility, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the States
Journal of Marriage and Family2014
2013
The Causal Effect of Father Absence
Annual Review of Sociology2012
Gender Deviance and Household Work: The Role of Occupation
American Journal of Sociology2011
Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory
Journal of Marriage and Family