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Jessica Halliday Hardie is a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, a Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, and a Faculty Affiliate at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. She received her PhD in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Family Demography and Individual Development at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times, published by the University of California Press in 2022.
Dr. Hardie specializes in the areas of inequality, family, health, education, work, social demography, and the transition to adulthood. In particular, her research explores how class, race, and gender shape young people’s trajectories through adolescence and young adulthood. She has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on adolescent social capital, the relationship between maternal health and child well-being, work and health, and economic resources and romantic relationship quality. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Education, Social Problems, Socius, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
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