Michelle Budig

Associate Director, SADRI

(PhD., Arizona 2001)

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

"Employment, Wages, and Poverty: Reconciliation Policies and Gender Equity." (with Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller). In Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Forthcoming 2007.
"Intersections on the Road to Self-Employment: Gender, Family, and Occupational Class." In Social Forces, 2006.
"Gender, Self-Employment, and Earnings: The Interlocking Structures of Gender, Family, and Professional Status." In Gender and Society, 2006.
"Feminism and the Family." In The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of the Family, edited by Scott, Treas, and Richards. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2004
"Activity, Proximity, or Responsibility? Measuring Parental Childcare Time." (with Nancy Folbre). In Family Time: The Social Organization of Care, edited by Folbre and Bittman. New York: Routledge, 2004.
"Are Women's Employment and Fertility Histories Interdependent? An Examination of Causal Order Using Event History Analysis." In Social Science Research Review 2003.
"Male Advantage and the Gender Composition of Jobs: Who Rides the Glass Escalator?" In Social Problems, 2002.
"Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work." (with Paula England and Nancy Folbre). In Social Problems, 2002.
"The Wage Penalty for Motherhood." (with Paula England). In American Sociological Review, 2001.
"Labor Market Regulation and the Growth of Self-Employment." (with Richard Arum and Donald S. Grant). In International Journal of Sociology, 2001.

"Self-Employment Participation and Earnings: The Effects of Gender, Family, and Professional Status." Cornell University, Department of Organizational Behavior (Ithaca, New York). 2006.
"Racial Differences and Similarities Among Childless, Only-Child, and Multiple Children American Women, 1988-2001." With Jennifer Lundquist. National Center for Health Statistics National Survey of Family Growth Research Conference (Hyattsville, MD). 2006.
"Employment, Wages, and Poverty: Reconciliation Policies and Gender Equity." With Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller. American Sociological Association (Philadelphia, PA). 2005.
"The Wage Penalty for Motherhood." Congressional Briefing sponsored by the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (Washington, DC). 2005.
"Mother-Workers and Glass Ceiling Breakers: Dual Pathways to Women's Self-Employment Participation." International Sociological Association conference on Work-Life Balance Across the Lifecourse (Edinburgh, Scotland). 2004.
"Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping towards Female?" With Paula England, Paul Allison, and Sun Li. Population Association of America (Boston, MA). 2004.
"The Wage Penalties of Caring Occupations and Caring for Children." Eastern Sociological Association (New York City). 2004.

Department of Sociology