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#269 - Two Much Privilege: Marriage, Parenting, and Economics: A Dialogue with Melissa Kearney
#269 - Two Much Privilege: Marriage, Parenting, and Economics: A Dialogue with Melissa Kearney
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100 minutes
Released:
Oct 12, 2023
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In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Melissa Kearney about the two-parent privilege. They define what is the two-parent privilege, the class gap in families and importance of college educated parents. They talk about conservative family values and views on two-parent households, two parents working outside of the home, working moms, stay-at-home moms, and single moms. They talk about the child tax credit, childhood poverty, birth rates, and many more topics. Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); a non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO); and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She is an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and Journal of Economic Literature, and a former co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources and Senior Editor of Future of Children. She holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of the book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind. Website: http://econweb.umd.edu/~kearney/melissa_website/index.htmlTwitter: @kearney_melissa Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
Oct 12, 2023
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Podcast episode
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