ISS Faculty Fellow/Evolving Family Team 2004-7

Maureen Waller is an Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management who has used qualitative and mixed-method techniques to examine issues of marriage, fatherhood, and child support in low-income communities in the United States.  In previous research published in My Baby's Father: Unmarried Parents and Paternal Responsibility (Cornell University Press, 2002), she conducted intensive interviews with unmarried mothers and fathers whose children receive welfare to examine their collective beliefs about paternal responsibility, their informal practices of caring for children, and how these beliefs and practices conflicted with the assumptions and regulations of the child support system.  Her current research draws on longitudinal qualitative research she conducted with unmarried parents participating in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine early transitions in relationships between unmarried mothers and fathers and between unmarried fathers and their children.

See Maureen Waller's departmental bio page.

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mrw37@cornell.edu

607-254-4844

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Cornell University
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