Social/Family Policy

E. Aerts, I. Marx, and Z. Parolin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 51. 2022.

In this commentary, Ive Marx of the University of Antwerp and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Brian Nolan of the University of Oxford introduce a special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy focused on social policy and wealth.

In this video, a panel of social scientists, including Janet Gornick and Leslie McCall, discuss ways for researchers to move beyond describing and quantifying the problem of inequality and to focus instead on ways to reduce it.

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.

In this interview, the authors explain why childless households are fueling the rise in poverty in the United States, and how simple policy changes could end this problem.

In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Jaquelyn Jahn, a social epidemiologist who focuses on health equity, discusses ways to prevent more illness and deaths in jails and prisons.

Janet Gornick talks about economics and poverty in a time of COVID-19 on CUNY TV.

In this research spotlight, a study by Jaquelyn Jahn and her coauthors looks at how living in an area with high rates of incarceration increases the risk of preterm birth among Black and white women.

In this commentary, Jaquelyn Jahn, a social epidemiologist who will be joining the Stone Center as a postdoctoral scholar this fall, discusses the consequences of the pandemic on incarcerated populations.

J. L. Jahn, J. T. Chen, M. Agénor, and N. Krieger. Social Science & Medicine. vol. 250. 2020.