AbstractObjectives. This study examines differences in the composition and size of the close social network among older adults in same-sex and different-se

A decade after the 2015 US Supreme Court ruling that legalized marriage between same-sex couples across the country, a majority of same-sex couples in the US are married. Building on Finch’s (2007) co...

Objective This study examines earnings trajectories of male same-sex couples around the time they become parents in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden: three forerunners in advancing same-sex coup...

Population Research and Policy Review - Anticipatory support—defined as the perceived availability of future care—functions as a psychological safety net that promotes mental well-being...

Objective This study examines whether online dating helps explain differences in homogamy between same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States. Background Same-sex couples tend to exhib...

How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

We study how unpaid household production shapes trends in inequality in material living standards in the U.S. in the last five decades. We construct e…

A recent study found research by women had fewer retractions. Are women betters researchers, or does the finding reflect wider structural issues?

Amy Adamczyk on variation in global abortion attitudes.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their ...

Despite caregiving making up a considerable portion of how individuals and governments spend their time and money, its impacts on caregivers' well-being are not well understood. In this article, we i....

Many social research questions aim at understanding relationships between different phenomena, and increasingly complex multivariate statistical models are often employed to address these questions...

ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada.  The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...