Overview
Kelly Musick is Professor of Public Policy and Sociology in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research examines family change and social inequality, with a current focus on the intersection of parenthood, the structure of work and earnings, and social policy from a comparative perspective. It has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Aging, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Swedish Research Council. She is Cornell lead for the Center for Aging and Policy Studies and co-PI of a cross-institution pipeline program for undergraduates NextGenPop: Recruiting the Next Generation of Scholars into Population Research. She received her Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Cornell, she was on the Sociology faculty at the University of Southern California.
Research Focus
- Family Demography
- Work-Family Policy
- Child Well-Being
- Social Inequality
Publications
- Social Science Research (Gender Inequality and Couples’ Relative Earnings)
- Demography (Income Sources across Childhood)
- Journal of Marriage and Family (Parents’ Work Arrangements and Gendered Time Use)
- Population and Development Review (Earnings Inequality Following Parenthood)
- American Sociological Review (His and Her Earnings Following Parenthood)