1. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Family Income Inequality, Part 4 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
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The basic assumption undergirding Jason DeParle's piece is that changes in family structure have been one of the primary drivers of growth in family income inequality over the last several decades. What ...

2. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 3 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
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Sociologist Loïc Wacquant writes that "binary oppositions are well-suited to exaggerating differences, confounding description and prescription, and setting up overburdened dualisms that erase continuities, ...

3. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 2 on DeParle
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In Sunday's New York Times, Jason DeParle contrasts the economic security of Jessica Shairer, a single mother of three who works at a child care center in Ann Arbor and makes under $25,000 (despite having ...

4. CEPR in the News April 2012
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The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Low-Wage Workers A recent CEPR paper on the low-wage labor force finds that the average low-wage worker today ...