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Journal articles
Marsh, Kris, Willima Darity Jr., Philip N. Cohen, Lynne M. Casper and Danielle Salters. 2007. "The Emerging Black Middle Class: Single and Living Alone." Social Forces 86(2):735-762. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2007. "Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap." American Sociological Review 72(5):681-704. [article]
Read, Jen'nan Ghazal and Philip N. Cohen. 2007. "One Size Fits All? Explaining U.S.-born and Immigrant Women’s Employment across Twelve Ethnic Groups." Social Forces 85(4):1713-34. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2007. "Confronting Economic Gender Inequality" (review essay). Review of Radical Political Economics 39(1):132-137. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2007. "Black Underrepresentation in Management across U.S. Labor Markets." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 609(January):181-199. [article]
Fuwa, Makiko and Philip N. Cohen. 2007. "Housework and Social Policy." Social Science Research 36(2):512-530. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. and Miruna Petrescu-Prahova. 2006. "Gendered Living Arrangements Among Children with Disabilities." Journal of Marriage and Family 68(August):630-638. [article]
de Ruijter, Esther, Judith Treas and Philip N. Cohen. 2005. "Outsourcing the Gender Factory: Living Arrangements and Service Expenditures on Female and Male Tasks." Social Forces 84(1):305-322. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2004. "The Gender Division of Labor: 'Keeping House' and Occupational Segregation in the United States." Gender & Society 18(2):239-252. [article]
Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. "Occupational Segregation and the Gender Gap
in Workplace Authority: National Versus Local Labor Markets" Sociological Forum 19(1):121-147. [article]
Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. "Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation and Devaluation Across U.S. Labor Markets." American Journal of Sociology 109(4):902-936. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2003. "Individuals, Jobs, and Labor Markets:
The Devaluation of Women's Work." American Sociological Review 68(3):443-63. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2003. "Occupational Segregation and the Devaluation of Women's Work Across U.S. Labor Markets." Social Forces 81(3):881-907. [abstract | article]
Jeanne A. Batalova and P. N. Cohen. 2002. "Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective." Journal of Marriage and Family 64(3):743-755. [abstract | article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2002. "Extended Households at Work: Living Arrangements and Inequality in Single Mothers' Employment." Sociological Forum 17(3):445-463. [abstract | article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2002. "Cohabitation and the Declining Marriage Premium for Men." Work and Occupations 29(3):346-363. [abstract | article]
Cohen, Philip N. and Lynne M. Casper. 2002. "In Whose Home? Multigenerational Families in the United States, 1998-2000." Sociological Perspectives 45(1):1-20. [abstract | article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2001. "Race, Class, and Labor Markets: The White Working Class and Racial
Composition of U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Social Science Research 30:146-169. [abstract | article]
Casper, Lynne M., and Philip N. Cohen. 2000. "How
Does POSSLQ Measure Up? Historical Estimates of Cohabitation." Demography
37(2):237-45. [abstract | article]. (An earlier version was U.S.
Bureau of the Census Population Division Working Paper No. 36 [article].)
Cohen, Philip N. and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 1999. "Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment: What Do We Know?" Monthly Labor Review 122(12):22-31. [article]
Cohen, Philip N. 1998. "Black Concentration Effects on Black-White and Gender Inequality: Multilevel Analysis for U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Social Forces 77(1):207-229. [abstract | article ]
Cohen, Philip N. 1998. "Replacing Housework in the Service Economy: Gender, Class, and Race-Ethnicity in Service Spending." Gender & Society 12(2):219-231. [abstract | article]
Cohen, Philip N. 1996. "Nationalism and Suffrage: Gender Struggle in Nation-Building America." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 21(3):707-727. [abstract | article]
Book chapters and reports
Judith Treas and P. N. Cohen. 2007. "Maternal Co-Residence and Contact: Evidence from Cross-National Surveys." In Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations, edited by Anne H. Gauthier, Cyrus Chu, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. New York: Springer.
Philip N. Cohen. 2006. "Not All Boats: Disability and Wellbeing among Single Mothers." Policy Brief. Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, UNC Chapel Hill. [report]
Liana Sayer, P. N. Cohen, and Lynne Casper. 2004. Women, Men and Work. In The American People: Census 2000 series published by Russell Sage Foundation & Population Reference Bureau.
Suzanne Bianchi, P. N. Cohen, Sara Riley and Kei Nomaguchi. 2004. "Inequality in Parental Investment in Childrearing: Time, Expenditures and Health." Pp. 189-219 Kathryn Neckerman (Ed.), Social Inequality. Russell Sage Foundation. [article]
P. N. Cohen and Danielle MacCartney. 2003. "Inequality and the Family." In, Jacqueline L. Scott, Judith K. Treas and Martin Richards (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of the Family. Oxford: Blackwell.
Cohen, Philip N. 1999. "Racial-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Returns to Cohabitation and Marriage: Evidence from the Current Population Survey." Population Division Working Paper No. 35. Population Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census. [abstract | article]
Book Reviews,etc.
Cohen, Philip N. 2006. Sourebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes, Evar Berg and Arne L. Kalleberg, eds. (2001). Social Forces (v. 85, no. 1).
Cohen, Philip N and Christin Hilgeman. 2006. Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men, Maria Charles and David B. Grusky (2004). Contemporary Sociology (v. 35, no. 3).
Cohen, Philip N. 2006. "Social Class" Entry in The World Book Encyclopedia.
Cohen, Philip N. 2005. Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs, Fiona Devine (2004). Contemporary Sociology (v. 34, no. 1).
Cohen, Philip N. 2002. Glass Ceilings and Asian Americans: The New Face of Workplace Barriers, by Deborah Woo (2000). Review of Radical Political Economics (v. 34, no. 4). [article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2002. Families, Households, and Society, by Graham Allan and Graham Crow (2001). Contemporary Sociology (v. 31, no. 1). [article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2001. Acts of Dissent: New Developments in the Study of Protest, edited by Dieter Rucht, Ruud Koopmans, and Friedhelm Neidhart (1998). Mobilization (v. 6, no. 2).
Cohen, Philip N. 2001. The Ties That Bind: Perspectives on Cohabitation and Marriage, edited by Linda J. Waite, with Christine Bachrach, Michelle Hindin, Elizabeth Thomson and Arland Thornton (2000). Contemporary Sociology (v. 30, no. 3). [article]
Cohen, Philip N. 2001. Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality since 1945, by William A. Darity, Jr. and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Review of Radical Political Economics (v. 33, no 1). [article]
Cohen, Philip N. "Competition Theory and Human Ecology." 2000. In Racial and Ethnic Relations in America. Salem Press: Pasadena. [abstract]
Cohen, Philip N. 1999. The Racial Contract, by Charles W. Mills. Review of Radical Political Economics 31(2):102-105. [article]
Op-Ed / Testimony
Statement prepared for, "Closing the Gap: Equal Pay for Women Workers," before the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee of the U.S. Senate April 12, 2007. [article]
Why Crack the Whip on Welfare? Durham Herald-Sun July 2, 2006. [article]
Affirmative Action for Whites. O.C. Weekly July 4, 2003. [article]
Dissertation
Black Population Size and the Structure of United
States Labor Market Inequality (Reeve Vanneman, Advisor). Here is the abstract and the full document (a large PDF file). If you have access to Digital Dissertations, you may buy a hard copy here. (Publication number: AAT 9925786.)