Kathryn Edin

Professor of Public Policy and Management
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Taubman-466
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 103
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-2067
Fax: 617-496-9053
Email: Kathy_Edin@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Nicole Grenier (617-496-4082)
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Profile

Kathryn Edin is Professor of Public Policy and Management. Her research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support, and nonmarital childbearing. Her most recent publication (with Paula England), Unmarried Couples with Children, is an analysis of a four-year study of 50 unmarried couples who shared a birth in 2000. Previous publications include the results of a six-year ethnographic study in eight Philadelphia neighborhoods, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas), and Making Ends Meet: How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein). Her next book is tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein). Current projects include a study nested within the interim evaluation of the “Moving to Opportunity Experiment,” an evaluation of the Gautreaux Two housing mobility program in Chicago, and “Investing in Enduring Resources with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC),” a study of EITC allocation among low-income households in Boston and Central Illinois. Edin received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in 1991 and has also taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Courses

Fall

  • HLE-511 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy I

Not Offered

  • API-203 Research Design and Research Methods for Fieldwork

Spring

  • HLE-201 Poverty and Social Policy