Kathryn Edin

KATHRYN EDIN is one of the nation’s leading poverty researchers, working in the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family life, and neighborhood contexts. A qualitative and mixed-method researcher, she has taken on key mysteries about the urban poor that have not been fully answered by quantitative work. The hallmark of her research is her direct, in-depth observations of the lives of low-income women, men, and children.