Michelle Budig

Education and Interests

(PhD., Arizona 2001)

Gender Inequality in Labor Markets, Work and Family Conflict, Feminist Theory, Contingent
Labor and Self-Employment, Quantitative Methods.

Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Honors

• 2011 Reuben Hill Award, Research and Theory Section, National Council on Family Relations
• 2009 World Bank / Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award
• 2003 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Families & Work, Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family
  

Recent Publications

• 2011    "Cross-National Patterns in Individual and Household Employment and Work
  Hours by Gender and Parenthood." Joya Misra, Michelle J. Budig, and Irene
  Boeckmann. Research in the Sociology of Work 22:169-208.
• 2011    "Work-Family Policy Consequences of Employment and Wages of Mothers."
  Joya Misra, Michelle J. Budig, and Irene Boeckmann. Community, Work, and
  Family 14(2):139-57.
• 2010    "Differences in Disadvantage: How the Wage Penalty for Motherhood Varies
  Across Women?s Earnings Distribution."  Michelle J. Budig and Melissa
  Hodges. The American Sociological Review 75(5):705-28.
• 2010    " Care Work Employment and Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective."
  Michelle J. Budig and Joya Misra. The International Labour Review 149(4):
  441-60.
• 2010    " Who Gets the Daddy Bonus? Markers of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Impact
  of First-time Fatherhood on Men?s Earnings." Melissa Hodges and Michelle J.
  Budig.  Gender & Society, 24(6):717-745.

Presentations

• 2011   Catalyst, Inc. (New York, New York), "Gender, Parenthood, Wage Inequalities,
  and Work-Family Policies." Invited talk.
• 2010       U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee (Washington, DC), Hearing on
  "New Evidence for the Gender Pay Gap for Women in Management." Invited
  expert witness testimony. http://jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=10d3c1d3-ce9e-4dcc-a68f-4c05f4c5eb0b&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=cb5dcfe4-afee-419f-94ee-e51eb07de989&MonthDisplay=9&YearDisplay=2010
• 2010     Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Conference on Research on
  Interrelations Between Demographic and Political Processes: Comparative Databases "'Existing Experiences and Future Potentials (Berlin)' Challenges to
  Measuring Family Policy Changes in Comparative Research." With Irene
  Boeckmann.
• 2010       "Exploring the Heterogeneity of Women's Entrepreneurship in Europe and USA:
  The Impact of Family Structure and Family Policies in Europe and the US."
  Vartuhi Tonoyan, Michelle J. Budig, and Robert Strohmeyer. Pp. 137-62 in
  Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth, edited by A. de
  Bruin, C.G. Brush, E.J. Gatewood, and C. Henry. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
  Publishing.