Kathryn J. Edin, is an American sociologist and a professor of sociology and public affairs at the

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. She specializes in the study of people living on welfare. Two of her books are ''Making ends meet: how single mothers survive welfare and low-wage work,'' and ''Promises I can keep: why poor women put motherhood before marriage''.

Life and career

Edin graduated with a B.A. in sociology from

North Park University North Park University is a private Christian university in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church. It is located on Chicago's north side and enrolls more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. His ...

in 1984. She then pursued graduate studies at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, where she received a M.A. in sociology in 1988 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1989 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "There's a lot of month left at the end of the money: how welfare recipients in Chicago make ends meet." In February 2014, Edin was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at

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for her accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching the next generation of scholars. Edin was elected as a member of the

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in 2019.

Publications

Books

* DeLuca, Stefanie, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin (2016). ''Coming of Age in the Other America''. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . *''$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) *Edin, Kathryn and Timothy J. Nelson. ''Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. . * *Edin, Kathryn, and Maria Kefalas.'' Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. *Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein. ''Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work''. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997 **Review, by Sally Young Conrad; ''

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'', 1997, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 480-484 **Review, by Susan Jacoby ''

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''. (May 4, 1997): 10 **Review, by Ruth Sidel; ''The Women's Review of Books,'' Sep., 1997, vol. 14, no. 12, p. 27-28 **Review, by Jane Waldfogel; ''

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'', Apr., 1998, vol. 51, no. 3, p. 529-530 **Review, by Erin L Kelly;'' Gender and Society,'' Aug., 1998, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 485-487 **Review, by Ralph Da Costa Nunez ''Political Science Quarterly,'' Summer, 1998, vol. 113, no. 2, p. 350-351 **Review, by

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: ''American Anthropologist''. 100, no. 1, (1998): 231 **Review, by

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; ''Contemporary Sociology,'' Nov., 1998, vol. 27, no. 6, p. 564-566 **Review, by Frances Fox Piven ''American Journal of Sociology,'' Mar., 1998, vol. 103, no. 5, p. 1461-1463 **Review, by Elizabeth Cooksey '' Population Studies'', Mar., 2000, vol. 54, no. 1, p. 117-118

Peer-reviewed journal articles (selected)

*Edin, Kathryn. 2000. "What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say About Marriage?" ''Social Problems''. 47, no. 1: 112-133. *Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Kathryn Edin, and Sara McLanahan. 2005. "High Hopes but Even Higher Expectations: The Retreat From Marriage Among Low-Income Couples". ''Journal of Marriage and Family''. 67, no. 5: 1301-1312. *Laura Tach; Kathryn Edin "The Relationship Contexts of Young Disadvantaged Men" ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,'' 635, no. 1 (2011): 76-94

Reports

*Edin, Kathryn, Laura Lein, and Timothy Nelson.'' Low-Income, Non-Residential Fathers Off-Balance in a Competitive Economy, in Initial Analysis.'' Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1998. OCLC 50199268 *Edin, Kathryn, Kathleen Mullan Harris, and Gary D. Sandefur. ''Welfare to Work: Opportunities and Pitfalls'' : Congressional Seminar, March 10, 1997. Washington, DC: Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy, American Sociological Association, 1998.

References

External links

Official p. at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

What If Everything You Knew About Poverty Was Wrong?
Researcher Kathryn Edin left the ivory tower for the streets of Camden—and turned sociology upside down. By Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones, March/April 2014. Detailed profile of Edin and her work. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edin, Kathryn American Lutherans Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American women sociologists American sociologists North Park University alumni Northwestern University alumni Princeton University faculty 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Johns Hopkins University faculty