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Michelle J. Budig is an associate professor of sociology. Her research interests include gender, labor markets, comparative work and family policy, and social inequality. Her recent publications investigate the wage penalty for motherhood, the wage bonus for fatherhood, the cross-national earnings penalties associated with caring labor, and the cross-national impacts of work-family policies on earnings inequalities, poverty, and self-employment participation. Her current research examines gender differences in cross-national self-employment participation and earnings, motherhood wage penalties in a comparative perspective, and racial/ethnic discrepancies in the effects of human capital on wages. She was the winner of the 2003 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Families and Work, given by the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work and Family, was a 2007-08 recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and was the 2009 recipient of the World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award. She is currently serving as an elected officer of the American Sociological Association and an elected member of the ASA Section on the Family Council, and is Chair-Elect of the Erwin O. Smigel Award Committee, for the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is an advisory board member for the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Cross-National Demographic Policy Database, is a member of the Family Responsibility Discrimination Class Action Working Group, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and organized by the University of California Hastings Law School, and is an editorial board member of the journal Social Problems. Professor Budig and her co-author Melissa Hodges are the National Council on Family Relations' 2011 Reuben Hill Award recipients for their paper
"Differences in Disadvantage: How the Wage Penalty for Motherhood Varies Across Women's Earnings Distribution."

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Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Gender Inequality in Labor Markets, Work and Occupations, Family and Work Conflict, Feminist Theory, Contingent Labor and Self-Employment, Quantitative Methods

Current Grants:

2011-12. Russell Sage Founsation.  Penalties for Paid and Unpaid Care Work (multi-institutional)

2010-11. Center for Research on the Family, University of Massachusetts. Self-Employment, Gender & Policy: Do National Work-Family Policies Shape Gender Differences in Self-Employment Participation & Earnings?

Recent Grants:

2010. University of Massachusetts. Flex Grant for Teaching/Faculty Development

2010. Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts. Summer Online Writing Fellowship

2009-10. Andrew Mellon Foundation. Mutual Mentoring Grant for Mid-Career Faculty

2008-10. NSF. Family Policies and the Wage Penalty: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Approach. Co-PI: Joya Misra

2008. UNC/Kauffman Foundation. Self-Employment, Gender and Policy: Do Work-Family Policies Shape Gender Differences in Self-Employment Participation and Earnings?

2008. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Wage Penalties Associated with Working in the Care Sector: A Cross-National Analysis. With Joya Misra

2006-08. NSF. The Cross-National Effects of Work-Family Policies. Co-PI. PI: Joya Misra

Selected Publications:

"Work-Family Policies and the Effects of Children on Women’s Employment Hours and Wages." Community, Work, and Family 14(2):139-47, 2011. With Joya Misra and Irene Boeckmann.

"Cross-National Patterns in Individual and Household Employment and Work Hours by Gender and Parenthood." Research in the Sociology of Work 22(1):169-207, 2011. With Joya Misra and Irene Boeckmann.

“How Carework Employment Shapes Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective.” International Labour Review 149(4):December, 2010. With Joya Misra.

“Who Gets the Daddy Bonus? Markers of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Impact of First-time Fatherhood on Men’s Earnings.” Gender & Society 24(5):December, 2010. With Melissa Hodges.

“Differences in Disadvantage: How the Wage Penalty for Motherhood Varies Across Women’s Earnings Distribution.”  American Sociological Review 75(5):October, 2010. With Melissa Hodges.

 “Exploring the Heterogeneity of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Europe and USA: The Impact of Human Capital, Prior Job Characteristics, and Family Structure on Women’s Entry into Low-Skilled versus High-Skilled Occupations.” In Women’s Entrepreneurship and Growth Influences: An Iinternational Perspective, C. G. Brush, E. J. Gatewood, A. M. de Bruin and C. Henry (eds.): 137-160, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010. With Vartuhi Tonoyan and Robert Strohmeyer.

“Race and Childlessness in America, 1988-2002.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 71:741-55, 2009. With Jennifer Lundquist and Anna Curtis.

"The Romance of College Attendance: Higher Education Stratification and Mate Selection."  Social Stratification and Mobility 26:107-21, 2008. With Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.

"Reconciliation Policies and the Effects of Motherhood on Employment, Earnings and Poverty."Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 9:135-55, 2007. With Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller.

"Work-Family Policies and Poverty for Partnered and Single Women in Europe and North America." Gender & Society 21:804-27, 2007. With Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller.

"Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping Toward Female?” Sociology of Education 80:23-42, 2007. With Paula England, Paul Allison, Sun Li, Jennifer Thompson, Noah Mark and Han Sun.

 

 

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