Judith Levine

Assistant Professor

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I am interested in gender and its implications in the labor market, the family, and the income distribution. In recent work, I am concerned with how women’s social interactions guide their economic outcomes. My primary current project is a book manuscript which provides a qualitative comparison of low-income mothers’ experiences with welfare and low-wage work before and after welfare reform and focuses on women’s social interactions with caseworkers, employers, child care providers, romantic partners, and kin and friendship networks.

In other work, I have studied how informal social interactions between co-workers reinforce formal institutional barriers to sex integration in job titles in a manufacturing plant. Ihave also investigated the causal links between adolescent motherhood and children’s subsequent outcomes and the relationship between mothers’ and fathers’ occupational traits and children’s occupational aspirations.

Recent Publications

Levine, Judith A. 2009. "It’s a Man’s Job, or So They Say: The Maintenance of Sex Segregation in a Manufacturing Plant." The Sociological Quarterly, 50, 257-282.

Levine, Judith A., Clifton R. Emery, and Harold Pollack. 2007. "The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers." Journal of Marriage and Family, 69 (February), 105-122.

DeLeire, Thomas, Judith A. Levine, and Helen Levy. 2006. "Is Welfare Reform Responsible for Low-Skilled Women’s Declining Health Insurance Coverage in the 1990s?" Journal of Human Resources, Summer XLI (3), 467-494.

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