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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Pathways to Prosperity and Well-Being: A New Family-Centered Approach to Human Services Delivery

  • Leigh Durbahn, Paul Fleissner, Jenny Douville, and Sook Jin Ong
  • Webinar
  • January 15 2020
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Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • January 2020
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Understanding benefit cliffs and marginal tax rates

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • September 2019
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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
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Can a redesigned child support system do better?

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • July 2019
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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
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Cutting the Child Poverty Rate by Half: A Report from the National Academies

  • Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt
  • Webinar
  • May 15 2019