Christine Percheski
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Percheski’s research is focused on family demography, economic inequality, and health policy. Her research is particularly concerned with understanding the wellbeing of American women and families with children. Percheski's past work has investigated the rise in income and wealth inequality among U.S. households, how the employment patterns of new mothers vary by their marital and partner status, how the Great Recession affected pregnancy rates, and how health insurance coverage varies by family characteristics.
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What Women Will Lose if the Ryan Budget Becomes Law
Fathers' Work and Child Wellbeing
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Examines how maternal employment varies across family structures (married parents, cohabiting unmarried parents, and lone unmarried mothers) in the five years after a birth for mothers living in urban areas in the United States. Finds that cohabiting mothers return to work earlier and work more than married mothers and that cohabiting mothers and lone mothers show very similar unemployment patterns. Speculates that cohabiting mothers work more than married mothers as a hedge against economic deprivation given high union dissolution rates for cohabiting couples.
Investigates family structure differences in family-level insurance coverage of households with children.
Proposes that children in immigrant families would likely benefit considerably from expansions of public health insurance eligibility to cover all children, including children without citizenship.
Focuses on variations in pregnancy and infertility by partnership and marital status. Finds that worse economic conditions were predictive of a lower risk of unplanned pregnancy.