Low-income people and and people of color will be disproportionately impacted by the overturn of Roe v. Wade, say PSC Research Associate Regina S. Baker and PSC/PARC Research associate Courtney Boen in a Penn Today article. Baker's recent paper in the American Journal of Sociology is featured.
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In a paper for The Journal of Marriage and Family, titled "Structural racism, family structure, and Black - White inequality: The differential impact of the legacy of slavery on poverty among single mother and married parent households," PSC Research Associate Regina S. Baker (PSC Research Associate) explores how structural factors like slavery intersect with issues of poverty, race, and family. Featured in Penn Sociology.
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Regina Baker (PSC Research Associate) was featured in OMNIA about research that examines the relationship between poverty, marriage, and racial inequality. “Research kind of hit a brick wall and stopped at this behavioral perspective, focusing on individual decisions—in this case, Black women having kids out of wedlock,” she says. “People were not even thinking about the roles American history, racism, and systems of oppression play in reproducing poverty.” The article was also featured in Penn Today.
New paper co-authored by PSC Research Associate Regina S. Baker titled "Famile Structure, Risks and Racial Stratification in Poverty", which challenges the literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty was cited in OMNIA Magazine. Read the full article here.
Regina S. Baker (PSC Research Associate) is awarded a Trustees Council of Penn Women (TCPW) Faculty Research Grant for her project, "Historical Racialized Institutional Contexts and Contemporary Inequalities across Southern Counties." Read More in the announcement on the Penn Sociology website here.
Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Regina Baker (PSC Research Associate) are credited with research support in a recent episode of the TradeOffs podcast. Listen to the episode and read more here.
Penn School of Arts & Science's OMNIA recently launched a six-episode podcast series that explores the forces that have shaped events in 2020. The first three episodes of In These Times are now available online. Courtney Boen (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Regina Baker (PSC Research Associate) were featured in the first episode,
"Dimensions of the COVID-19 Crisis."
Regina S. Baker (PSC Research Associate) and collaborator have been awarded grants by the Russell Sage Foundation-Gates Foundation Pipeline competition. The emerging scholars will be conducting research on the development of a holistic measure on how socioeconomic origin affects social mobility.