Research Summary:Jennifer Hook is a Research Scientist at Partners for Our Children at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 2006. She is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (2004-2005) and a Sloan Work-Family Early Career Development Grant (2008-2009). Her recent works appear in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Her current research interests focus on the relationship between the family processes and public policy. She has a grant from NICHD (R03 HD056996-01A1) for a comparative project on fatherhood. She uses four national time use surveys conducted in the early 2000s in the United States, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom to craft and analyze innovative measures of father involvement. She seeks to better understand the ways in which father involvement is socially constructed in modern welfare states. The project has the potential to add to our understanding of mechanisms that influence father involvement, to advance the field through an integration of multiple levels of analysis, and to inform policy that encourages active fathering.
At Partners for Our Children Hook is working on the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth (Midwest Study), a prospective study following a sample of young people in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois as they make the transition from foster care to early adulthood. The Midwest Study examines the experiences of these young people across a variety of domains, including living arrangements, relationships with family of origin, education, employment, economic well-being, pregnancy, marriage and cohabitation, parenting, and criminal justice system involvement. Because many of the questions they were asked had also been used in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, it is possible to make comparisons between this sample of young adults who “aged out” of foster care and a nationally representative sample of their peers.
Recent Publications:- Hook, J., (Forthcoming), Gender inequality in the welfare state: task segregation in housework 1965-2003, American Journal of Sociology.
- Pettit, B.; Hook, J., (2009), Gendered tradeoffs : family, social policy, and economic inequality in twenty-one countries, Russell Sage, New York.
- Hook, J. L.; Chalasani, S., (2008), Gendered Expectations? Reconsidering Single Fathers' Child-Care Time, Journal of Marriage and Family, 70: 4, 978-990.
- Hook, J. L., (2006), Care in Context: Men's Unpaid Work in 20 Countries, 1965-1998, American sociological review., 71: 4, 639.
- Pettit, B.; Hook, J., (2005), The Structure of Women’s Employment in Comparative Perspective, Social Forces, 84, 779-801.
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Ph.D. 2006, University of Washington. Gender, Family Demography, Social Policy, and Comparative Sociology
