Conversation with you. Yeah, its good to be with scott. Were here to discuss your great new book, the two parent privilege how americans stopped getting married and started falling behind behind. Excellent book. Why dont we start off just by having you tell our viewers about your professional background and interests . What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one in five kids in the us now, m
Its a pleasure to have this conversation with you. Yeah, its good to be with scott. Were here to discuss your great new book, the two parent privilege how americans stopped getting married and started falling behind behind. Excellent book. Why dont we start off just by having you tell our viewers about your professional background and interests . What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one i
Its a pleasure to have this conversation with you. Yeah, its good to be with scott. Were here to discuss your great new book, the two parent privilege how americans stopped getting married and started falling behind behind. Excellent book. Why dont we start off just by having you tell our viewers about your professional background and interests . What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one i
Its a pleasure to have this conversation with you. Yeah, its good to be with scott. Were here to discuss your great new book, the two parent privilege how americans stopped getting married and started falling behind behind. Excellent book. Why dont we start off just by having you tell our viewers about your professional background and interests . What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one i
What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one in five kids in the us now, more than in any other in the world, its become so clear to me that this is really a part of whats driving differences in the in the us. Its not been good for kids wellbeing and their economic trajectories. Its not been good for the Single Parents who are bearing the burdens by themselves. And so i come at the issue very