Christine percheski
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Assistant Professor [Arriving Fall 2010] Areas of Interest: Demography, Stratification and Social Inequality, Work and Occupations, Health
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Christine Percheski studies how changes in women and men’s employment and family life affect gender and class inequalities.
Dr. Percheski's research has considered questions of how family characteristics correlate with employment including whether becoming a father affects employment differently for married and unmarried men, how the child penalty on women's employment has changed across birth cohorts of women in professional occupations, and how the employment patterns of new mothers vary by whether they are married, cohabiting or lone mothers. She has also examined how income inequality relates to family characteristics among American families with children and among American women. Ongoing research projects include an examination of how changes in family life affect the risk of losing health insurance coverage and of receiving timely medical care and a study of why there are so few men in the nursing profession.
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Percheski, Christine. 2008. “Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women’s Employment Rates from 1960 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 73 (3): 497-517.
Percheski, Christine and Christopher Wildeman. 2008. “Becoming a Dad: Employment Trajectories of Married, Cohabiting, and Non-resident Fathers.” Social Science Quarterly 89(2):482-501.
McLanahan, Sara and Christine Percheski. 2008. “Family Structure and the Reproduction of Inequalities.” Annual Review of Sociology 34: 257-76.
Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, and Christine Percheski. 2008. “Inequality among American Families with Children: 1975‐2005.” American Sociological Review 73 (6): 903-920.
Wildeman, Christopher and Christine Percheski. Forthcoming. “Associations of Childhood Religious Attendance, Family Structure, and Nonmarital Fertility across Cohorts.” Journal of Marriage and Family.
