Articles
- Portier, Camille, Kimberly McErlean and Léa Pessin. 2026. “Visualizing the Prevalence of Couples’ Work-Family Arrangements across Countries.” Socius 12. DOI | Open access | Replication package
- Pessin, Léa and Kevin Munger. 2026. “Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution.” Sociological Science 13: 661-684. DOI | Open access
- McErlean, Kimberly. 2026. “Examining the Relationship between Male-Breadwinning and Divorce: The Impact of Work-Family Policies in the United States.” Social Forces, advance article. DOI | Open access
- Pessin, Léa and Federica Querin. 2026. “Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work-Family Arrangements, 1968-2023.” Journal of Marriage and Family 88(4): 1132-1143. DOI | Open access
- McErlean, Kimberly. 2025. “Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the ‘Gender Revolution’ in the United States.” Socius 11. DOI | Open access
Work in progress
- Where Are All the Egalitarian Couples? A Cross-National Examination of Couples’ Work and Family Life Courses (McErlean and Pessin)
- One Typology or Many? Cross-National and Temporal Variation in Couples’ Work-Family Strategies (Portier and Pessin)
- Is Marriage a “Gendering Institution”? The Gendered Division of Labor across the Transition from Cohabitation to Marriage (McErlean)
- Workplace Policies and Couples’ Bargaining: A Dyadic Factorial Survey of Adaptive Strategies in Paid and Unpaid Work (Krajnc, Pessin and Di Stasio), survey experiment in preparation
- Educational Assortative Mating and the Gendered Division of Labor across the Partnership Life Course (McErlean and Pessin)

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