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Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC/PARC Research Associate) wrote an op-ed article for The Philadelphia Inquirer about coronavirus and gender differences in domestic work, child care, and home schooling.
New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Gonalons-Pons, Pilar, Christine Schwartz, and Kelly Musick. 2020. "Changes in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2020-42.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons was named a 2020-2021 RSF Visiting Scholar. She will be spending next year at the Russell Sage Foundation in NYC.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
My research examines how work, families, and public policies structure economic inequalities, with a particular focus on how inequalities change over time and over the life course. I emply quantitative techniques and longitudinal datasets from multiple countries along with content analyses of documents and interview data.
My studies contribute to debates about the uneven change in gender inequalities, the role of family processes in exacerbating inequalities across families, and the relevance of public policies in mediating these processes.
My current projects focus on the impact of changes in wives' earnings on income inequality in 8 countries 1975-2015, the effects of the Great Recession on workers' career mobility and family formation in 30 countries, and changes in couples' work and earnings after childbirth in the US 1970-2010.
My research has been published in Demography, Social Science Research, and the RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.
