2026 Paula England: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	68	835	726	1	1	244	29808

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
1999 - Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Paula England is a researcher affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions in gender studies, sociology and political science, demography, general health professions, and economics and econometrics. The scholar's research covers a range of topics related to gender, labor, and family dynamics, including work-family balance challenges, family relationships, gender diversity and inequality, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, demographic trends, and LGBTQ health, identity, and policy.

Their recent publications demonstrate a consistent engagement with issues surrounding gender and society. Notable papers include:

Progress toward gender equality in the United States has slowed or stalled (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cohort Increases in Sex with Same-Sex Partners: Do Trends Vary by Gender, Race, and Class? (2020), published in Gender & Society
Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Workplace Authority (2020), published in European Sociological Review
Sexual Abstinence in the United States: Cohort Trends in Abstaining from Sex While Never Married for U.S. Women Born 1938 to 1983 (2020), published in Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
Wealth and Divorce (2023), published in Demography

Paula England has also authored books, including Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America, published by Stanford University Press eBooks in 2020.

Their research has been disseminated in various academic venues, most frequently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with additional publications in Gender & Society, Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, European Sociological Review, and Demography.

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Michael Hout, Emma Mishel, Marcia J. Carlson, Karyn Vilbig, and David B. Grusky. These collaborations span multiple studies focusing on social and gender dynamics.

Among recognitions, Paula England has been named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2010, and received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association in 1999.

Best Publications

The Wage Penalty for Motherhood

Michelle J. Budig;Paula England

2893
Citations
The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled

Paula England

2362
Citations
When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work

Michael Bittman;Paula England;Liana Sayer;Liana Sayer;Nancy Folbre

1907
Citations
Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence

Paula England

1831
Citations
Households, Employment, and Gender: A Social, Economic, and Demographic View

Paula England;George Farkas

1397
Citations
Emerging Theories of Care Work

Paula England

1194
Citations
Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work

Paula England;Michelle Budig;Nancy Folbre

1007
Citations
The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation.

Paula England

880
Citations
Explaining Occupational Sex Segregation and Wages: Findings from a Model with Fixed Effects

Paula England;George Farkas;Barbara Stanek Kilbourne;Thomas Dou

743
Citations
Union Formation in Fragile Families

Marcia Carlson;Sara McLanahan;Paula England

738
Citations
Returns to skill, compensating differentials, and gender bias: effects of occupational characteristics on the wages of white women and men

Barbara Stanek Kilbourne;Paula England;George Farkas;Kurt Beron

620
Citations
Occupational Feminization and Pay: Assessing Causal Dynamics Using 1950-2000 U.S. Census Data

Asaf Levanon;Paula England;Paul D. Allison

597
Citations
Accounting for Women’s Orgasm and Sexual Enjoyment in College Hookups and Relationships

Elizabeth A. Armstrong;Paula England;Alison C. K. Fogarty

577
Citations
The Cost of Caring

Paula England;Nancy Folbre

576
Citations
Gender Inequality in Labor Markets: The Role of Motherhood and Segregation

Paula England

563
Citations
The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions

Paula England

517
Citations
Cleaning up their act: the effects of marriage and cohabitation on licit and illicit drug use.

Greg J. Duncan;Bessie Wilkerson;Paula England

443
Citations
Progress toward gender equality in the United States has slowed or stalled

Paula England;Andrew Levine;Emma Mishel

422
Citations
Do Highly Paid, Highly Skilled Women Experience the Largest Motherhood Penalty?:

Paula England;Jonathan Bearak;Michelle J. Budig;Melissa J. Hodges

405
Citations
Hooking Up and Forming Romantic Relationships on Today’s College Campuses

Paula England;Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer;Alison C K Fogarty

347
Citations
Desegregation Stalled The Changing Gender Composition of College Majors, 1971-2002

Paula England;Su Li

342
Citations
Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain.@@@Origins and Destinations: Family, Class, and Education in Modern Britain.

Paula England;John R. Goldthorpe;Catriona Llewellyn;Clive Payne

120
Citations
Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence.

Lois Yachetta;Paula England

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

George Farkas University of California, Irvine

Nancy Folbre University of Massachusetts Amherst

Paul D. Allison University of Pennsylvania

Kathryn Edin Princeton University

Sara McLanahan Princeton University

Randall Collins University of Pennsylvania

Michael Bittman University of New England

Janeen Baxter University of Queensland

Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley

Cecilia L. Ridgeway Stanford University

External Links

Wikipedia of Paula England Personal website of Paula England Google Scholar page

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