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Kathryn Edin publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kathryn Edin sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 137 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Kathryn Edin D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kathryn Edin sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kathryn Edin is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, with key focus areas that include sociology and political science, demography, gender studies, general health professions, and health. The scholar's work spans topics related to family dynamics and relationships, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, urban and neighborhood studies, health disparities and outcomes, gender, labor, and family dynamics, homelessness, social issues, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Several of Kathryn Edin's recent papers have been published in respected academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Severe Housing Insecurity during Pregnancy: Association with Adverse Birth and Infant Outcomes (2020) in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Eviction in early childhood and neighborhood poverty, food security, and obesity in later childhood and adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort (2020) in SSM - Population Health
  • Does Time with Dad in Childhood Pay Off in Adolescence? (2020) in Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Re-thinking Stepfathers' Contributions: Fathers, Stepfathers, and Child Wellbeing (2021) in Journal of Family Issues
  • The origins of unpredictability in life outcome prediction tasks (2024) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Kathryn Edin frequently collaborates with a range of co-authors. Among the most common co-authors are:

  • Timothy J. Nelson
  • Rachel Brown-Weinstock
  • Sarah Gold
  • Sarah Pachman
  • Kathryn M. Leifheit

The scholar's work is often published in specific journals, with a concentration in the following venues:

  • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • SSM - Population Health

Best Publications

  • Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work

    Kathryn Edin;Laura Lein

  • Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

    Kathryn Jo Edin;Maria Kefalas

  • High hopes but even higher expectations: The retreat from marriage among low-income couples.

    Christina M. Gibson-Davis;Kathryn Jo Edin;Sara McLanahan

  • $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

    Kathryn Edin;H. Luke Shaefer

  • What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say about Marriage?

    Kathryn Edin

  • Work, welfare, and single mothers' economic survival strategies

    Kathryn Edin;Laura Lein

  • Doing the best I can : fatherhood in the inner city

    Kathryn Edin;Timothy Jon Nelson

  • Why Don't They Just Get Married? Barriers to Marriage among the Disadvantaged

    Kathryn Jo Edin;Joanna M. Reed

  • Parenting as a "Package Deal": Relationships, Fertility, and Nonresident Father Involvement Among Unmarried Parents

    Laura Tach;Ronald Mincy;Kathryn Edin

  • Making Ends Meet

    Kathryn Edin;Laura Lein

  • A peek inside the black box: What marriage means for poor unmarried parents

    Kathryn Jo Edin;Maria J. Kefalas;Joanna M. Reed

  • Moving teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods: how girls fare better than boys.

    Susan Clampet-Lundquist;Kathryn Edin;Jeffrey R. Kling;Greg J. Duncan

  • Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men

    Kathryn Jo Edin;Laura Tach;Ronald Mincy

  • Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review

    Kathryn Edin;Rebecca Joyce Kissane

  • Dignity and Dreams What the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Means to Low-Income Families

    Jennifer Sykes;Katrin Križ;Kathryn Edin;Sarah Halpern-Meekin

  • It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World

    Sarah Halpern-Meekin;Kathryn Edin;Laura Tach;Jennifer Sykes

  • Rising Extreme Poverty in the United States and the Response of Federal Means-Tested Transfer Programs

    H. Luke Shaefer;Kathryn Edin

  • Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago

    Kathryn Edin

  • Welfare Reform, Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Child Well-Being*

    Andrew S. London;Ellen K. Scott;Kathryn Jo Edin;Vicki Hunter

  • The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households

    Ruby Mendenhall;Kathryn Jo Edin;Susan Crowley;Jennifer Sykes

  • Unmarried Couples with Children

    Paula England;Kathryn Jo Edin

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Tach
Laura Tach Cornell University
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Andrew S. London
Andrew S. London Syracuse University
Paula England
Paula England New York University Abu Dhabi
Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey R. Kling National Bureau of Economic Research
Kristin Turney
Kristin Turney University of California, Irvine
Craig Evan Pollack
Craig Evan Pollack Johns Hopkins University
Stefanie DeLuca
Stefanie DeLuca Johns Hopkins University
Sara McLanahan
Sara McLanahan Princeton University
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore

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