Details about Heather M. Boushey

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Working Papers

2007

1. Understanding Low-Wage Work in the United States
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (11)

2006

2. Inequality and Household Economic Hardship in the United States of America
   Working Papers, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs View citations (12)
3. Tag Team-Parenting
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2005

4. Are Women Opting Out? Debunking the Myth
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (29)
5. Clearing the Path to Unemployment Insurance for Low-Wage Workers
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
6. Family-Friendly Policies: Boosting Mothers' Wages
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
7. Finding the Better Fit: Receiving Unemployment Insurance Increases Likelihood of Re-employment with Health Insurance
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
8. Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (10)
9. No Way Out: How Prime Age Workers Get Trapped in Minimum Wage Jobs
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
10. Social Security: The Most Important Anti-Poverty Program for Children
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
11. Student Debt: Bigger and Bigger
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
12. The Effects on Employment and Wages When Medicaid and Child Care Subsidies are no Longer Available
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
13. The Impact of Proposed Minimum-Wage Increase on Low-Income Families
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
14. When Done Right, Work Supports Work: Medicaid and Mothers' Employment and Wages
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Journal Articles

2020

1. Unbound: Releasing Inequality’s Grip on Our Economy
   Review of Radical Political Economics, 2020, 52, (4), 597-609 View citations (1)

2015

2. Bringing inequality back in
   European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 2015, 12, (2), 183-189 View citations (1)

2014

3. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
   Challenge, 2014, 57, (3), 84-96 View citations (1)

2012

4. Growing from the middle out: US jobs and the economy in Obama's second term
   Public Policy Review, 2012, 19, (3), 181-187
5. Why Don't More Young People Go to College?
   Challenge, 2012, 55, (4), 78-93

2009

6. The Limits of Work-Based Social Support in the United States
   Challenge, 2009, 52, (2), 81-114 View citations (2)

2008

7. Family Friendly Policies: Helping Mothers Make Ends Meet
   Review of Social Economy, 2008, 66, (1), 51-70 View citations (6)
8. Has Growing Inequality Contributed to Rising Household Economic Distress?
   Review of Political Economy, 2008, 20, (1), 1-22 View citations (10)
9. “Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States
   Feminist Economics, 2008, 14, (1), 1-36 View citations (34)

2002

10. Reworking the Wage Curve: Exploring the consistency of the model across time, space and demographic group
    Review of Political Economy, 2002, 14, (3), 293-311 View citations (12)

1997

11. The Economic Contributions of David M. Gordon
    Review of Political Economy, 1997, 9, (2), 225-245 View citations (3)

Chapters

2013

1. The role of the government in work–family conflict in the US
   Chapter 19 in Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life, 2013, pp 307-322 View citations (1)

2006

2. Unequal Fortunes, Unstable Households: Has Rising Inequality Contributed to Economic Troubles for Households in the USA?
   Palgrave Macmillan