Hello!
Very excited (and proud) to jointly coordinate this @HorizonEU project with Mary Daly. We have such a great team investigating how to increase #resilience in European Families.
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We're starting off on our 3 year journey to investigate how families respond to socio-economic shocks and then road test policy solutions for #familyresilience
“Money isn’t everything, but it” sure is a damn long list of essentials.
#Poverty, first and foremost, is lack of money to participate in society.
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This figure shows the a key finding. In countries with low #defamilization (#childcare, left panel), a rise of #dual-earner #households is associated with an increase in poverty among single parents, but not among #couples with children.
With more childcare, these associations disappear (right panel).
The same findings are reported for #decommodification (income protection).
Hannah Zagel, Sabine Hübgen, and I argue that #demography can only effectively be invoked as explanation of trends in #poverty with a distinction between the #composition of #risk factors and their associated #penalties for poverty.
We apply this insight to explain the unexpected and diverging trends in single-mother poverty in #Germany, #Sweden, and the #United #Kingdom.
Abstract. To explain single-mother poverty, existing research has either emphasized individualistic, or contextual explanations. Building on the prevalences and
The "Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families" (2018, with Laurie Maldonado) examines the risks and issues faced by #single parent-families and their children such as #poverty, #wealth/asset accumulation, #health, #well-being and combinative development, bringing together scholars from diverse social science backgrounds, including #sociology, #economics, #political science, and #social #work.
And, you guessed it, it's available #openaccess:
Two other edited books focus a bit more specifically on my areas of research interest.
The "Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy" (2020, with @wvlancker) provides a #multilevel view on #family #policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: #supra-national organizations, #national #states, sub-national or #regional levels, and finally smaller #organizations and #employers.
It's available #openaccess:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2
One of my intellectual "homes" is the European Network for Social Policy Analysis (https://espanet.org). To celebrate 20 years of #ESPAnet, I co-edited with Kenneth Nelson and Mara Yerkes the book Social Policy in Changing European Societies.
This book provides an in-depth account of #social #policy #research today, how we got here, and where #future research should be headed.
The book came out this year, and is available #openaccess:
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781802201710/9781802201710.xml
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