Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Developmental Gradient in Time with Children Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
In this May 2012 seminar, visiting scholar Ariel Kalil
presented her research on the impacts parents with different
characteristics and social backgrounds have on their children’s
development.
Ariel Kalil is a Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy
and director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
at the University of Chicago. Her research has examined how
transitions from welfare to work affect mothers and children,
barriers to the employment of welfare recipients, and family
processes and child development in female-headed, teenage-parent,
and cohabiting-couple households.
During Ariel Kalil’s visit in April as a Center for Poverty
Research Visiting Faculty Scholar, snatches of conversation could
be heard from her temporary office. One student asked about how
to make his work more relevant to public policy. Another talked
about what it was like being a first-generation college student.
“I guess in some part they wanted to find out more about the path
that I had taken, because it is a bit unusual,” says Kalil.
