Overview
Melissa Kearney is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland and a Research Associate at NBER. Her research covers income inequality, poverty, social insurance programs, and teen fertility. She is the author of The Two-Parent Privilege (2023).
Key Contributions / Features
- Impact of child SSI enrollment on household outcomes (with Duggan)
- Analysis of child SSI caseload growth and its composition (with Aizer and Gordon)
- Work on teen fertility, inequality, and the economics of family structure
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