During the past decade, scholars continued to focus on how larger economic trends
impacted families across the income spectrum. From income and wealth inequality to …

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why
they happen, and what policies might reduce them Deep within the American Dream lies the …

In this paper, we call attention to the need to expand existing efforts and to develop policies,
programs, and best practices in the United States designed to support parents at risk and …

Although there is a wealth of research on the relationship between income level and
employment status and child well-being, the relationship between economic instability and …

A growing body of research demonstrates the multiple dimensions and dynamism of family
income and employment. The metrics of household economic instability and their …

Poor families often combine public benefits with social network and community resources to
cope with economic instability. This study shows that decisions to combine formal and …

Is income during children's earliest years a key determinant of long-term child and adult
success in the longer run? The research to date, Christopher Wimer and Sharon Wolf write …

Objective To investigate precursors to gender-related obesity disparities by examining
multiple family-level stress indices. Methods Analyses was based on adolescents born …

Background Caring for a child with a neurodisability (ND) impacts the financial decisions,
relationships and well‐being of family members, but evidence on the economic trajectories …

This study examined whether the addition of household resources via the receipt of the US
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects short-term patterns of parents' time investments in …