| Promises I can keep: Why poor women put motherhood before marriage K Edin, M Kefalas Univ of California Press, 2011 | 3014 | 2011 |
| Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America PJ Carr, MJ Kefalas Beacon press, 2009 | 1105 | 2009 |
| Working-class heroes: Protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood M Kefalas Univ of California Press, 2003 | 296 | 2003 |
| A peek inside the black box: What marriage means for poor unmarried parents K Edin, MJ Kefalas, JM Reed Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1007-1014, 2004 | 242 | 2004 |
| “Marriage is more than being together”: The meaning of marriage for young adults MJ Kefalas, FF Furstenberg, PJ Carr, L Napolitano Journal of Family Issues 32 (7), 845-875, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
| Can immigration save small-town America? Hispanic boomtowns and the uneasy path to renewal PJ Carr, DT Lichter, MJ Kefalas The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 641 (1 …, 2012 | 132 | 2012 |
| Coming of age in America: The transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century MC Waters, PJ Carr, M Kefalas, JA Holdaway Univ of California Press, 2011 | 127 | 2011 |
| The sliding scale of snitching: A qualitative examination of snitching in three Philadelphia communities S Clampet‐Lundquist, PJ Carr, MJ Kefalas Sociological Forum 30 (2), 265-285, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| The rural brain drain PJ Carr, MJ Kefalas The Chronicle of Higher Education 9, 1-13, 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Unmarried with children K Edin, M Kefalas contexts 4 (2), 16-22, 2005 | 37 | 2005 |
| Straight from the heartland: Coming of age in Ellis, Iowa PJ Carr, MJ Kefalas Coming of age in America: The transition to adulthood in the twenty-first …, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Promises I can keep: Why poor women put motherhood before marriage K Edin, M Kefalas J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 33, 165, 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| The last garden: Culture and place in a white, working-class Chicago neighborhood. MJ Kefalas | 14 | 1999 |
| Reimagining Education in Small Towns. PJ Carr, MJ Kefalas School Administrator 67 (5), 30-33, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| “Longer than I Would’ve Originally Liked and Originally Thought”: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession L Napolitano, P Tevington, PJ Carr, M Kefalas Sociological Perspectives 65 (4), 684-701, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| “Marriage is More than Being Together”: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults MJ Kefalas, FF Furstenberg, PJ Carr, L Napolitano Crossings to Adulthood, 111-133, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Coming of age in America MC Waters, PJ Carr, MJ Kefalas, J Holdaway University of California Press, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| Looking for the lower middle class M Kefalas City & Community 6 (1), 63-68, 2007 | 8 | 2007 |
| chicago's last garden spot M Kefalas contexts 1 (3), 50-55, 2002 | 4 | 2002 |
| to snitch or not to snitch M Kefalas, P Carr, S Clampet-Lundquist Contexts 10 (3), 56-63, 2011 | 3 | 2011 |
