The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded a Pipeline Grant to Assistant Professor Alejandra Ros Pilarz and Laura Cuesta, Rutgers University–New Brunswick for their work, “Child Support Regularity and Custodial Mothers’ Employment and Economic Well-Being.” The pipeline grants go to emerging scholars “who are underrepresented in the social sciences in order to promote racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity.”
Dr. Pilarz and Dr. Cuesta’s project will study how regularity in child support receipt has changed over the past twenty years and the extent to which regularity affects custodial mothers’ employment and economic well-being. See the full abstract.
Dr. Pilarz’s research broadly examines how parental employment, child care, and early education experiences contribute to young children’s development particularly in the context of economic disadvantage, and in the role of public policies in supporting low-income parents and their children’s development.