Book

Everything Is Broken: How the Childcare Market Creates Inequality (under contract with University of California Press)

Articles (pdfs linked)

Bouek, Jennifer. 2023. “The Wait List as Redistributive Policy: Access and Burdens in the Subsidized Childcare System.” RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 9(5): 76-97.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.04

Bouek, Jennifer. 2022. “From the State to the Street: The Segregated Decline of Child Care and the Institutional Origins of Organizational Deprivation.” American Journal of Sociology.

  • Winner of the 2020 SSSP Poverty, Class and Inequality Division Graduate Student Paper Award

Bouek, Jennifer. 2018. "Navigating Networks: How Nonprofit Network Membership Shapes Response to Resource Scarcity." Social Problems.

  • Winner of the 2018 James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work

 

Public Writing

Bouek, Jennifer. 2021. “As written, Build Back Better could support — or devastate — child care for disadvantaged working parents.” Washington Post, December 6.

Edited Volumes

Bouek, Jennifer. 2018. “The Rise and Falter of the Emergency Food Assistance Network.” In Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America’s Poor, edited by L. Hossfeld, E.B. Kelly, and J. Waity. Vanderbilt Press: Nasheville, TN.

Short, Susan E. and Jennifer W. Bouek. 2015. “Fertility Rates” in The WileyBlackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies edited by Nancy Naples.

Under Review

Agbai, Chinyere, Jennifer Bouek, and Thomas Marlow (equal authorship). “Trajectories of Deprivation: Linking Neighborhood Change with Access to Social Service Organizations.” (Revise and Resubmit at Social Problems)

In Progress

“Agents and Agencies: How Mothers Secure Childcare in the Brokered State.”

“Doom Loop: Population Exchanges and the Demise of an Organizational Field.”

“Neither His Money nor Her Money: The Effects of Welfare Receipt on the Gendered Household Economy.”