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Melissa Kearney featured in The New York Times on the interaction between economic growth and family formation
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Social context partially determines the family formation response to a positive income or earnings shock
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Melissa Kearney Criticizes Universal Basic Income (UBI)
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Despite the growing popularity, UBI is a flawed idea that would do little to fix problems
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Melissa Kearney Comments on the Decline in Male Workers on NPR
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There’s much less demand for the labor of less-educated men despite the job boon after the Great Recession
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Macroeconomic Conditions and Marital Dissolution
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Faculty Associate Melissa Kearney explores marriage markets through an R03 with North Carolina State University
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Exploring the culture of despair
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Faculty Associate Melissa Kearney and Philip B. Levine find that inequality trumps location in predicting early childbearing out of wedlock
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Inequality and Teenage "Drop Out" Behaviors
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Melissa Kearney and colleagues examine a hypothetical "desperation" effect on economically disadvantaged students through a grant funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation
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Melissa Kearney analyzes COVID-19 Social Insurance on EconoFact
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Cash payments provide a financial lifeline through this time of income loss. Workers in the hardest-hit industries have low earnings and few savings.
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Melissa Kearney's research illuminates COVID recovery potential
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We must deliberately spend and invest in ways that will strengthen our capitalist economy and expand economic security, she writes
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New York Times Article quotes Kearney in discussion of child care and opening the economy
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Child care key to economy re-opening
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Kearney on incentives for saving money
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Saving money while winning prizes is an incentive that customers are not biting on
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