Kathryn Edin, a sociologist, is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

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 at Harvard University

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. She specializes in study of people living on welfare. Her book. Making ends meet : how single mothers survive welfare and low-wage work is held in over 1600 WorldCat libraries ; her book Promises I can keep : why poor women put motherhood before marriage in over 1460.

She received her Ph.d. from Northwestern University

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 in 1989, with a thesis on "There's a lot of month left at the end of the money : how welfare recipients in Chicago make ends meet"

Books

• England, Paula, and Kathryn Edin. Unmarried Couples with Children. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. ISBN 9780871542854
• Edin, Kathryn, and Maria Kefalas. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN 9780520248199
• Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein. Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997 ISBN 9780871542298
  • Review, by Sally Young Conrad; Journal of Public Health Policy
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    , 1997, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 480-484
  • Review, by Susan Jacoby The New York Times book review
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    . (May 04, 1997): 10
  • Review, by by Ruth Sidel; The Women's Review of Books, Sep., 1997, vol. 14, no. 12, p. 27-28
  • Review, by Jane Waldfogel; Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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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 Irma McClaurin: American Anthropologist. 100, no. 1, (1998): 231
  • Review, by Aldon Morris; 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. ISBN 9780912764337

External links

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