Fabrizio Bernardi is Chair in Sociology and Head of Department at the Political and Social Sciences Department of the European University Institute, Fiesole, Firenze.

Paolo Berta is Assistant Professor in Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan–Bicocca, Milan. His scientific research activity primarily concerns the application of multivariate statistical analysis techniques and mixed effects models to cross-sectional and longitudinal data.

Diederik Boertien is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). In 2017, he coauthored “Non-Intact Families and Diverging Educational Destinies” (with Fabrizio Bernardi), published in Social Science Research.

Naomi R. Cahn is the Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. She is the coauthor of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family (2014) (with Professor June Carbone).

June Carbone is the Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is the coauthor of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family (2014) (with Professor Naomi Cahn).

Marcia J. Carlson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She coedited (with Daniel R. Meyer) a 2014 volume of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on “Family Complexity, Poverty, and Public Policy.”

Andrew J. Cherlin is Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is the author of Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America (2014).

Lynn Prince Cooke (DPhil Oxon) is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and a research fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center. She specializes in comparative, including historical, analyses of gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work and their impact on family outcomes. She is currently Principal Investigator on a European Research Council Consolidator Grant analyzing the “new” shape of family-related gender stratification in Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Laurie Fields DeRose teaches at Georgetown University, and she is Research Assistant Professor for the Maryland Population Research Center, Director of Research for the World Family Map Project, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Her early research on sub-Saharan African demography laid the foundation for her current focus on global family studies. Her work, coauthored with World Family Map academic partners, “Maternal Union Instability and Childhood Mortality Risk in the Global South, 2010–2014” appeared in Population Studies, May 2017.

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC; his most recent book is Men without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (2016).

Albert Esteve is a demographer. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He completed his undergraduate studies in geography and has a PhD in Demography from the UAB. His research interests lie in the area of family and household demography, including topics such as marriage, cohabitation, assortative mating, and marriage markets. He has focused on the implications of structural changes on the marriage markets (e.g., gender-gap reversal in education, the expansion of college education, or international migration) and on family dynamics in various regions of the world, with a focus on Latin America. Most of his work is cross-national and makes intensive use of census and survey microdata. He spent three years at the Minnesota Population Center actively participating in the first release of international census microdata within the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series Project. He has been Marie Curie Fellow at the National Institute for Demographic Studies and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. His research has been published in prestigious demographic journals and funded competitively by European, Spanish, and Catalan research agencies, including the European Research Council.

Elizabeth Florez-Paredes is a sociologist from the Central University of Venezuela with a PhD in Demography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on family systems in Latin America, with particular focus on marriage, cohabitation, households, and transitions to first union and child. She specializes in large comparative and cross-national research based on international census and survey microdata. Her work has been presented at major international conferences such as those of the Population Association of America and the Latin American Studies Association.

Anna Garriga is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political and Social Science at Pompeu Fabra University. Her research mainly focuses on the causes and consequences of the increasing diversification of family structures in European countries. In 2017, she coauthored “The Change in Single Mothers’ Educational Gradient Over Time in Spain” (with Clara Cortina), published in Demographic Research.

Frances Kobrin Goldscheider is University Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brown University and College Park Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland. Her studies include analyses of trends in living alone among the elderly; leaving and returning home among young adults; entry into unions; men’s, women’s, and children’s roles in the household division of labor; and new forms of fatherhood, including single, absent, and stepparent. Her current research focuses on men’s roles in the family in the United States and Sweden. A recent major paper is “The Gender Revolution: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior” (with Eva Bernhardt and Trude Lappegård), Population and Development Review, 41(2):207–239, 2015.

Juho Härkönen is Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. In 2017, he coedited a special issue (with Fabrizio Bernardi) of the European Journal of Population on the effects of family dynamics on children’s life chances.

Brienna Perelli-Harris is Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She recently completed a European Research Council Starting Grant on Childbearing within Cohabitation: Trends, Policies, and Consequences.

Joseph Price is Associate Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a Fellow at the Austin Institute. He is the author of over fifty academic articles and is the Director of the BYU Record Linking Lab (http://rll.byu.edu).

Richard V. Reeves is Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Codirector of the Center on Children and Families, and Editor-in-Chief of the Social Mobility Memos blog at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and family change. Prior to joining Brookings, he was Director of Strategy to the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister. His publications for Brookings include Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream (2014), Character and Opportunity (2014), The Glass Floor (2013), and The Parenting Gap (2014). He is also a contributor to the Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Richard is the author of John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007), an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.

Sharon Sassler is Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, and Sociology, at Cornell University. She is the coauthor (with Amanda Jayne Miller) of Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships (2017).

W. Bradford Wilcox is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Family Studies. He is the coauthor of Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (2016).