Michelle J. Budig is an associate professor of sociology. Her research interests include gender, labor markets, work and family conflict, and social inequality. Her recent publications investigate the wage penalty for motherhood, earnings and promotions disparities for male and female occupational tokens, the earnings penalty associated with caring labor, the relationship between women’s employment and fertility histories, and feminist theory on the family. Her current research examines gender differences in 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 the recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for the 2007-08 academic year, and is currently serving a 3-year term on the American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Council. Michelle Budig and Joya Misra's Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper “How Care Work Shapes Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective” was recently chosen as the winner of the first World Bank/LIS Gender Research Award.

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Areas of Interest:
Gender, Labor Markets, Work and Occupations, Family and Work Conflict, Quantitative Methods.

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

Recent Grants:
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.

2004-06. UMass/CSBS Research Grant. Race and Gender Differences in the Effects of Education on Earnings.

Pending Grants:
Evaluation of the Triage Project. Community Action of the Franklin, Hampshire, and North Quabbin Regions. Co-PI. PI: Joya Misra.

Recent Publications:
"Race and Childlessness in America, 1988-2002." Journal of Marriage and the Family, forthcoming. 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 ofComparative Policy Analysis 9(2):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(6):804-27, 2007. With Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller.

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

"Gender, Self-Employment, and Earnings: The Interlocking Structures of Gender, Family, and Professional Status." Gender and Society, forthcoming December, 2006.

"Intersections on the Road to Self-Employment: Gender, Family, and Occupational Class." Social Forces 84(4):2223-39, 2006.

"Feminism and the Family." In The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of the Family, Jacqueline L. Scott, Judith K. Treas and Martin Richards (eds.), pp. 416-34. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2004.

"Are Women’s Employment and Fertility Histories Interdependent? An Examination of Causal Order Using Event History Analysis.” Social Science Research Review 32(3):376-401, 2003.

"Male Advantage and the Gender Composition of Jobs: Who Rides the Glass Escalator?" Social Problems 49(2):258-77, 2002.