Kathryn Edin

Professor of Social Policy (Kennedy School of Government)

Biographical Note

Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Edin’s research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support, non-marital childbearing, and the economic lives of the poor. Books include Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas) (2005), Making Ends Meet; How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein) (1997), and There’s a Lot of Month Left at the End of the Money (1993). Forthcoming work includes a new book, Marginal Men: Fatherhood and the Lives Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein), and an edited volume, Unmarried Couples with Children (with Paula England). Current projects include in-depth qualitative studies of EITC allocations among low ad moderate income families in three cities, the Moving to Opportunity and Gautreaux housing mobility programs, which offer special vouchers to allow public housing residents in a variety of U.S. cities the opportunity to move to low poverty neighborhoods. Edin received her MA and PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and her BA from North Park University in Chicago. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, and Rutgers University.

03/24/2008

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