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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 52 Citations 11,397 212 World Ranking 1489 National Ranking 738

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Poverty
  • Statistics

His primary scientific interests are in Child support, Welfare, Economic growth, Poverty and Demographic economics. His work deals with themes such as Demography, Enforcement, Social psychology and Cash, which intersect with Child support. In his research on the topic of Welfare, Single mothers, Social work and Disadvantaged is strongly related with Social policy.

His studies in Economic growth integrate themes in fields like Payment and Alimony. He combines subjects such as Public economics and Unemployment with his study of Poverty. His Demographic economics study incorporates themes from Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Child rearing and Development economics.

His most cited work include:

  • Fragile Families: Sample and Design (1031 citations)
  • Single Mothers and Their Children: A New American Dilemma (385 citations)
  • Parental Incarceration and Child Well-Being: Implications for Urban Families† (243 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Child support, Poverty, Labour economics, Demographic economics and Welfare are his primary areas of study. He has included themes like Economic growth, Social psychology, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Enforcement and Payment in his Child support study. His research in Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study intersects with topics in Cash and Demography.

As part of the same scientific family, Irwin Garfinkel usually focuses on Poverty, concentrating on Development economics and intersecting with Welfare reform. His work focuses on many connections between Labour economics and other disciplines, such as Earnings, that overlap with his field of interest in Economic inequality. His Welfare research focuses on subjects like Social policy, which are linked to Social work and Single mothers.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Child support (33.63%)
  • Poverty (22.87%)
  • Labour economics (20.18%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2009-2020)?

  • Poverty (22.87%)
  • Demographic economics (19.28%)
  • Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (13.90%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Irwin Garfinkel mainly investigates Poverty, Demographic economics, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Developmental psychology and Development economics. His Poverty study improves the overall literature in Economic growth. His Demographic economics research integrates issues from Earnings, Cost of living and Sample.

His Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study research includes elements of Finance, Unemployment and Single mothers. His Developmental psychology study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Child support, Key and Social environment. His Child support research includes themes of Divorced parents, Social psychology and Payment.

Between 2009 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development (217 citations)
  • Social disadvantage, genetic sensitivity, and children’s telomere length (179 citations)
  • Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families (177 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Poverty
  • Statistics

Irwin Garfinkel mostly deals with Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Poverty, Demographic economics, Demography and Disadvantaged. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a subfield of Developmental psychology that Irwin Garfinkel studies. His Poverty research is classified as research in Economic growth.

His Economic growth research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Welfare, Transfer payment and Great Depression. His work deals with themes such as Income poverty, Cash, Baseline and Enforcement, which intersect with Demographic economics. His Demography research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Cross-sectional study, Social work and Psychiatry.

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Best Publications

Fragile Families: Sample and Design

Nancy E. Reichman;Julien O. Teitler;Irwin Garfinkel;Sara S. McLanahan.
Children and Youth Services Review (2001)

1359 Citations

Single Mothers and Their Children: A New American Dilemma

Irwin Garfinkel.
(1986)

1280 Citations

Parental Incarceration and Child Well-Being: Implications for Urban Families†

Amanda Geller;Irwin Garfinkel;Carey E. Cooper;Ronald B. Mincy.
Social Science Quarterly (2009)

431 Citations

Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development

Amanda B. Geller;Carey E. Cooper;Irwin Garfinkel;Ofira Schwartz-Soicher.
Demography (2012)

393 Citations

A Structural Model of Labor Supply and Child Care Demand.

Charles Michalopoulos;Philip K. Robins;Irwin Garfinkel.
Journal of Human Resources (1992)

377 Citations

Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families

Amanda Geller;Irwin Garfinkel;Bruce Western.
Demography (2011)

350 Citations

The gender poverty gap: what can we learn from other countries?

Lynne M. Casper;Sara S. McLanahan;Irwin Garfinkel.
American Sociological Review (1994)

304 Citations

Social disadvantage, genetic sensitivity, and children’s telomere length

Colter Mitchell;John Hobcraft;Sara S. McLanahan;Susan Rutherford Siegel.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014)

288 Citations

Evaluating welfare and training programs

Charles F. Manski;Irwin Garfinkel.
Contemporary Sociology (1992)

255 Citations

Single mothers and their children

Irwin. Garfinkel;Sara. McLanahan.
(1986)

248 Citations

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