Kathryn Edin

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Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

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Kathryn Edin Biography

Kathryn Edin is one of the nation’s leading poverty researchers. A qualitative and mixed-method researcher, she has taken on key mysteries about the urban poor that have not been fully answered by quantitative work: How do single mothers possibly survive on welfare? Why don’t more go to work? Why do they end up as single mothers in the first place? Where are the fathers and why do they disengage from their children’s lives? How have the lives of the single mothers changed as a result of welfare reform? The hallmark of her research is her direct, in-depth observations of the lives of low-income women, men, and children.

Edin has authored 8 books and some 60 journal articles. $2 a Day: The Art of Living on Virtually Nothing in America, co-authored with Luke Shaefer, was met with wide critical acclaim. It was included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015, cited as “essential reporting about the rise in destitute families.”

Edin is PI of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, was a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and was a past member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. In 2014, she was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2017 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Edin received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from North Park University and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. She has previously taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/18/2024.

Kathryn Edin Videos

  • Having Children in Poverty: Kathryn Edin
  • Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer - $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost ...
  • How to Address Poverty, with Kathy Edin

Kathryn Edin Books

  • $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
    $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
  • Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, with a New Preface
    Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, with a New Preface
  • Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work (European Studies)
    Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work (European Studies)

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