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Brad Wilcox

Nonresident Senior Fellow
Research Areas

Child wellbeing, Family structure & economic growth

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Bio & Experience

Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he directs The Home Economics Project. Inaugurated in fall of 2013, the research project explores the links between family and the economy at home and abroad,

Wilcox is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he directs the National Marriage Project, and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. He has been a research fellow at Yale University, a research associate at Princeton University, and a Civitas Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is additionally the author of “When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America” and the coauthor, with Kathleen Kovner Kline, of “Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives.”

His research on marriage and family life has been featured in CBS News, National Public Radio, National Review, NBC News, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets. He also consults regularly with companies on fertility and marriage trends in the United States.

Wilcox has a master’s degree and a doctorate in sociology from Princeton University. His bachelor’s degree in government is from the University of Virginia.

Experience

  • University of Virginia: Professor of Sociology, 2017–present; Director, National Marriage Project, 2009–present; Associate Professor of Sociology, 2008–17; Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2002–08
  • Institute for Family Studies: Senior Fellow, 2013–present
  • Baylor University: Nonresident Scholar, Marriage and Family, Institute for Studies of Religion, 2012–present
  • Yale University: Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study of Religion, 2001–02
  • Princeton University: Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research, 2000–01
  • Brookings Institution: Civitas Fellow, 1999

Education

PhD, MA, sociology, Princeton University
BA, government, University of Virginia

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