The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic upended work, family, and social life. These massive changes may have createdshifts in exposure to work-life conflict. Using a national survey that followed Canadian workers from September 2019into April and June 2020, the authors...
This American poll shows that parents —and especially mothers— are struggling to piece together care amidst a crisis marked by affordability and accessibility issues, and by low pay for childcare workers, and are overwhelmingly supportive of public investments in...
The death of a partner has many consequences, including for the economic lives of those they leave behind. Theories predict that these consequences will not only differ by sex (for women and men in opposite-sex couples, especially those with children) but also by...
Despite billions of dollars appropriated by federal and state governments during the COVID-19 outbreak to protect vulnerable Americans, as well as recent reports that the poverty rate has declined, results from this survey show that a substantial share of households...
The 2020 census counted 126.8 million occupied households, representing 9% growth over the 116.7 million households counted in the 2010 census. That single-digit growth was more anemic than the prior record low percentage growth of households (11%) during the previous...
European welfare states are neither primarily nor solely responsible for inequality reduction. They redistribute much more across age than across socio-economic status lines.